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Daily Fetch 3.25.11: Nancy Pyle reads Protect San Jose

Friday, March 25th, 2011

San Jose Councilmember Nancy Pyle wrote a piece in the Merc about one of the benefits of Redevelopment in San Jose: the neighborhood groups it encouraged.  She is writing about the civic engagement that helped police in the Almaden shooting a few weeks back… But Pyle’s account of what happened that day sounded very, very familiar to The Daily Fetch crew.  Here’s why, part of it was (apparently) lifted from Protect San Jose…
  • Pyle: …This occurred in broad daylight at one of the busiest intersections in San Jose in front of multiple witnesses and near a popular public park…
  • Protect: …The incident occurred in broad daylight, at one of the busiest intersections in San Jose, in front of a least 20 witnesses and near a popular public park…

Hmmm… (There are more similarities too…)

San Jose is now officially the 10th largest City in US… and we still don’t have a baseball team:
If you love (or hate) the San Jose budget so far, you can have your voice heard starting in May. There will be one (boring) meeting in each City Council District, so with a little luck and a really boring life, you can attend all ten… If you did, you will have attended more meetings than some City Councilmembers…
Last year it was a controversial election about staffing the fire department, this year, voters in Palo Alto will vote on a composting facility (or not a composting facility…)  Officially, the vote will be about “undedicating” parkland.  How sexy…
In a scene out of Chicago Code or The Wire, there was a vacant house that burned down (or was burned down) in Los Gatos last week.  County Fire officials think someone torched it…
For you Sunnyvale Dweebs… Councilmember Jim Griffith has a March 29 Council preview and some notes about structurally unsound bridges… Oh, and Dweeb.org is on Twitter too…
Have a good (dry?) weekend folks…

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Daily Fetch 2.15.11: Thanks Barry O!

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

BART to San Jose got a big nod today from the Federal Transportation Administration: $130 million. Thanks Barry O!
Dude, the Merc Editorial Board would like the State to regulate pot clubs… Regulate, try not to hate man…
Groundwerx is celebrating its third birthday this week.  Thank you San Jose Downtown Association… One thing though, “werx” is misspelled…
We missed this yesterday, but the Metro/San Jose Inside has a link to, and a story referring to, the San Jose City list of employees’ salaries.  Word from the 18th floor is that everyone is busy looking up everyone else’s salaries…
Palo Alto is going to fix up/revamp/take lanes away on California Avenue. This is a big damn deal in Palo Alto…
NASA is all in for restoring Hangar One restoration:  $32.8 million… This is a big damn deal in Mountain View…
A teenager in Los Altos (allegedly) stole a car and was subdued by a police dog.  We guess Los Altos ain’t Lake Wobegon after all…
Sunnyvale Councildweeb Jim Griffith has a preview of today’s Sunnyvale City Council meeting… Now you don’t have to go…

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Daily Fetch 1.27.11: The reGov’s Middle Finger…

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

The San Jose Police Department released the 911 tapes of the folks at Peet’s calling following the recent murder-suicide when Jeanine Harms’ brother shot the guy he thought killed his sister, Maurice Nasmeh.
That’s a big story on its own, but the fact that the tape is being released by the Department is newsworthy on its own… We seem to remember when releasing 911 tapes was something the City of San Jose never, ever did…
Here’s a Merc headline that should get folks a little riled up:  Another day, another shooting in San Jose… Maybe Anthony Batts would be the best choice for Police Chief, he’s dealt with stuff like this as Chief in Oakland…
An update to the fatal shooting by a San Jose Police Officer in the San Jose foothills earlier in the week: “…the officer fired to save another officer’s life…” More details from Sean Webby’s story in the Merc.
San Jose Inside has a recap of Tuesday’s San Jose City Council discussion about pensions, including a comparison to the nation’s Social Security outlook…
Inside was busy yesterday, they also have a recap of the LA Times story about how reGovernor Jerry Brown gave the middle finger to big city mayors close up during a press conference following a meeting in Sacramento.  Redevelopment is going away, like or not…
Some final (blog) notes:
Protect San Jose has another tribute to a fallen officer.  Today’s tribute is to Robert White who died in the line of duty 26 years ago.
Councildweeb Jim Griffith has posted his “Council Summary” from the Sunnyvale City Council meeting on 1/25.  Since the only Daily Fetch reader who was there was Jim Griffith, perhaps you should check out his wrap-up…
Metblogs is having some serios technical difficulties and has been down for some time… You can follow them on Twitter if you like.
Speaking of following folks on Twitter… We hate to do this, but:
At noon yesterday, @SanJoseDotCom wrote this on Twitter:
  • NEWS: Yahoo announces more layoffs. Will their former employees head down 101 to Google? http://fb.me/Jb6dOynj
If that looked familiar, because we wrote this and posted this at 9:01 a.m. in our regular Daily Fetch post titled “In Google, Out Yahoo…“:
  • There is an interesting Silicon Valley 2011 Snapshot in the news this week: Google will hire a bunch of folks (about 6,000)  and Yahoo will let a bunch go. Perhaps the Yahoo folks should just send their resumes a little further north on 101…
Coincidence?

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Daily Fetch 1.3.11: The 49ers, Dolores Carr, and RJD1 sail off into the 2010 sunset…

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Good morning Silicon Valley friends.  We hope you had a nice little vacation and enjoyed some well-deserved time off.  For those of you that have had too much time off because of the economy, we hope 2011 is a better year than 2010… Let’s get right to it…

There is double good news on the Santa Clara 49ers front:  1.  They actually won their game yesterday, and 2.  The season is mercifully over…
Speaking of the 49ers (and their next head coach – hopefully), Stanford plays tonight in the Orange Bowl.
We won’t have Dolores Carr to kick around anymore… that’s because Jeff Rosen gets sworn in today as the Santa Clara County District Attorney.  Priority 1:  Don’t be Dolores Carr… Priority 2:  See Priority 1…
NIMBYs won’t have Rod Diridon Sr. to kick around either when it comes to High-Speed Rail… That’s because the outgoing Governor apparently didn’t like Diridon and didn’t reappoint him to the California High-Speed Rail Authority.  (That’s our theory at least…) His non-reappointment means that Silicon Valley doesn’t really  have a voice much anymore on the Authority anymore, that’s the bad news.  The good news, at least for RJD1 is that he doesn’t have to sit through as many painful meetings up and down the Peninsula anymore…
Even though it seemed like a holiday weekend (and it was), the good folks at Internal Affairs at the Merc were semi-busy… Here’s what we learned:
  • San Jose Councilmember Sam Liccardo is moonlighting as an attorney…
  • San Jose Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio is moonlighting as a software dude (and makes six figures?!)…
  • The aforementioned Dolores Carr is not getting a judgeship, something about her judgement…
  • And finally, it is good to know that IA reads The Daily Fetch San Mateo so they got the Menlo Park/Kelly Fergusson story correct this time.  On 12/12/10, they had Kelly Fergusson as the former Mayor of Atherton…
Councilmember Oliverio must be earning his six-figures, or at least he wants to flex his software/tech muscles a little bit:  he writes for San Jose Inside about SaaS and the City of San Jose…
Protect San Jose is back after a few weeks off and they give us a view into what is happening at San Jose City Hall this week (nothing) and comment on the 2010 murder rate in San Jose (very low)… Welcome back.
Here’s a story about a quiet neck of the woods of Saratoga… two folks were found dead in their home after a relative called the Sheriff’s Office to go have a look…
The Morgan Hill Times gets all existential on us with their piece from New Year’s Day:  What will matter in 2011…
Rounding out today’s Fetch is Sunnyvale Councilmember Jim Griffith’s blog:  Dweeb.org. The “Council Preview” is a little boring, even Griffith calls tomorrow’s Sunnyvale Council meeting “mostly a housekeeping meeting“… In other words, please don’t show up, you’ll be bored.
It is the first work day of the year.  Wouldn’t this be the perfect time to sign up to receive The Daily Fetch’s daily email (above)?  Or perhaps follow us on Twitter or become our friend on Facebook?  (These things only take a second and it isn’t like you’re really working yet anyway…)

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Daily Fetch 7.5.10: Fireworks hangover…

Monday, July 5th, 2010

The Daily Fetch will be publishing this week… but it may not be the full monty everyday, just the real highlights.  (And Santa Clarans talking about their runs for City Council in the comments…)
We’ll start with this because it is ongoing:  there was a fire at Trace Elementary School in San Jose this morning that is under investigation.
The Mercury News makes the connection that the San Jose Police Officers’ Association and Firefighters have been trying to avoid for sometime… the fact that binding arbitration in Vallejo and in San Jose may be a key reason why salary and benefits outstrip revenues and why Vallejo, and perhaps San Jose?, went into bankruptcy.  The story in the Merc talks about a possible November ballot measure in San Jose to repeal binding arbitration… expect backlash from Kathleen Flynn…
It isn’t just in San Jose where police officers and fire fighters have been negotiating new contracts… police and fire in Mountain View have a new contract extension for the next two years…
Some City pools in San Jose were saved by some City pols… including Councilmember Nancy Pyle, who is helping covering the cost of keeping Almaden Lake open for business by using some of her office budget and Councilmember Sam Liccardo who used money from his campaign to keep Biebrach pool open this summer…
Scott Herhold is back and celebrating his journalistic freedom this week… he takes on two aides to Councilmember/ Assemblymember Nora Campos for moonlighting for a San Jose developer…
The Civil Grand Jury issued a report about consolidating school districts in Santa Clara County as a way to save money.  Save money maybe, but the headaches of doing this would probably cost you that money in Extra Strength Excedrin…
Assessor Larry Stone… boooooo… says that property values in the County have taken a dive worse than they did during the Great Depression.  Which might be good news for the next John Steinbeck, but not many other people…
Skype is moving to Palo Alto… which is great if you are Palo Alto, but bad if you are San Jose and Brisbane, where Skype is located now.
Speaking of Palo Alto, it seems the Downtown Business Improvement District is in “disarray” – which makes for a troubled District, but great reading in the Palo Alto Weekly…
Sunnyvale Councildweeb.org Jim Griffith let’s us know that Sunnyvale’s population is now (officially) 140,450.
Here’s a headline that is loooong overdue: USA Swimming begins revamping policies to protect young athletes.  In related news, the Vatican is thinking about drafting up some new guidlines too…
See you tomorrow… enjoy the parades.

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