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Daily Fetch 8.22.12: Who wins the PR battle today? You decide…

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

Let’s see, where to start, where to start?  How about pensions in San Jose?  Good stuff…

We have this:  The State Controller conducted an audit of the now infamous $650 million figure the Mayor was fond of using to discuss a worse-case pension obligation scenario… and the day’s PR winner is not the Mayor, but Protect San Jose is a little bit slow to pounce this morning…

Let’s not get too excited about the pension obligation not being $650 million… Because the Merc (including San Jose City Hall’s own reporter, John Woolfolk) takes a look at sick-leave payouts… and the day’s PR winner on this issue is not public employee unions…

If that wasn’t enough bad news for the day, San Jose had its 31st (31st?!) homicide of the year last night.  A stabbing at Safe?way…

Now for some good San Jose news… SJC can now use “International Airport” with a straight face.  ANA is going to start flying SJ to Tokyo in January… And to think, Vossbrink isn’t at the airport anymore for this shining moment.

With pressure mounting to not do anything drastic to their Park Charter Fund, the Board of Supervisors did what they often do… they “decided on a compromise”…

(Professional politician) Jim Beall is pulling out all the stops against his State Senate rival, Joe Coto, and trying to block Coto’s ballot statement from entering the voter guide…  Inside baseball fellas, let’s keep our eyes on the ball…

In some more political news, Craig Mann is leaving the County Board of Education to head into the classroom (and perhaps onto a Community College District Board)…

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Daily Fetch 12.5.11: Sue Lempert’s Thanksgiving…

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Development in Burlingame is notoriously difficult (ask Safeway)… But the old drive-in spot could turn into a biotech campus… maybe.  The Environmental Impact Report says traffic could be be increased significantly…
There is a new (well-paid/well-pensioned) Police Chief in Redwood City.  JR Gamez was sworn in last Friday.  (His automatic cost of living adjustment on his pension may be altered… check out the other side of this blog for details…)
In case you were wondering how Sue Lempert spends her Thanksgivings… Her column inches in the Daily Journal.
Here something that may alarm you, but shouldn’t:  SFPUC warns that water color may temporarily change because of increased air pressure… How reassuring…

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Daily Fetch 10.14.11: GavCoast Gate… another turn

Friday, October 14th, 2011

GavCoast Gate has taken hold… Remember, the HMB Review had a story about how poorly the Lt. Gov’s speech was received at the Coastside Democrats’ event last week.  The Review story was picked up by Matier and Ross at the Chronicle.  The Lt. Gov’s staffer wrote a letter to the editor of the Review… and then a Coastside Democrat wrote to the Huffington Post… Whew.  Are you still paying attention?  Good… Because Clay Lambert re-chimes in from the Review to stand by their original story… but this time, they include the audio tape of the event…
Remember that a local Occupy Wall Street group wanted to protest by marching on a bridge they said was unsafe and needed the jobs package passed by Congress?  Well, that bridge turned out to be safe after all… No matter, the protest will go on.
In a really creepy story, a dude was arrested at the 24 Hour Fitness in San Mateo for peeping…
Speaking of national chain stores… Safeway opened in Burlingame.  Joshua (not John!) Melvin in the County Times notes, “…it only took 14 years…”  After all that time, that Safeway better be real friggin’ nice…
From one thing that took a long time to one that might take a long time… The trail along Alpine Road. County Supervisors would like some more time (2 years) from Stanford’s offer of $10 million.

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Daily Fetch 10.5.11: Recurring Story Day…

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

A bunch of recurring stories today…
1.  Hmmm, where have we heard this before.  From the Daily News: Atherton residents will see more of their cash going to trash.  Do any of our readers remember the Garbage Saga?  Well, the chickens are roosting…
2.  The County Supervisors are going with the big jail!  That’s good news for the Sheriff, who wants a big jail… Because as we know from California’s experience, the bigger jail, the more criminals…
3.  The Burlingame Safeway is set to open…
And finally, East Palo Alto is considering a stop sign or “crosswalk lights” at the intersection where the 6 year old girl was killed earlier in the week…

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Daily Fetch 2.9.11: Welcome Facebook…

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

From Terry Nagel’s Twitter-feed yesterday:  It’s official: I’ve filed as a candidate for county supervisor! Find out why I’m running: www.terrynagel.com.
Now that we know that political news…
Bruce Balshone at the PP Examiner looks at the theory that Debra Bowen will run for Jane Harman’s Congressional seat and Jackie Speier may end up looking to be California’s next Secretary of State… which will then create a massive cluster-fuck in San Mateo County…
While Caltrain looks at cutting a lot (and paying their CEO a lot)… The President is looking to give California’s High-Speed Rail project a lot of cash, much to the chagrin of Athertonians…
Speaking of lots of cash…
Facebook is leaving Palo Alto and moving to Menlo Park… Welcome to San Mateo County Mr. Zuckerberg…
From San Bruno:  Actually, this is from places that are not in San Bruno, but PG&E found that “No other sections of pipe like San Bruno found so far in Northern California“…
The bidding to take over some/most/all of Half Moon Bay’s services has begun.  The Daily Journal takes a look at who wants to police the coastside streets…
While not quite in the dire straights like Half Moon Bay, Redwood City is talking “cuts, layoffs, tax“…
Perhaps this will ease some local budget strain, at least in Belmont.  SunEdison may be moving to Belmont from Maryland…
This will help Millbrae’s budget strain… the new Safeway will begin construction next January…
The local community college district may be asking for bond money to improve facilities… Saturday, the Board will discuss exactly when to ask voters…
As one district looks to go to the ballot… the Las Lomitas School District Board is pulling back from a possible parcel tax.

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Daily Fetch 1.26.11: Yee’s love affairs with the microphone…

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

As we said last week, State Senator Leland Yee never saw a microphone he didn’t like (or love)… especially now that he’s running for Mayor of San Francisco. Now, he is launching a boycott of Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers.
That injured (and revived) Mavericks’ surfer is doing better…
From San Bruno:  The Mercury News Editorial Board says, “Allow sunshine on San Bruno pipeline records” agreeing with Assemblymember Jerry Hill…
If there was ever a city or town where planting trees would be opposed by environmentalists, it is Menlo Park.  The tree-planting plan for Bedwell Bayfront Park only got 3 votes on the 5-member City Council.  While some trees are being planted, the big redwood on a Menlo resident’s lot will be removed, because the Council voted to let the homeowner-to-be cut it down… Menlo Drama at its best…
101 in Belmont will be closed this week… (Don’t worry, it will be in the middle of the night to build the bike bridge.)
Speaking of construction:  ”The Digging is Done” on Devil’s Slide Tunnels.  Hat tip to Pacifica Riptide…
And even more construction:
Burlingame Voice has an update (#63) on the new Safeway…

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Daily Fetch 9.20.10: When ads match stories…

Monday, September 20th, 2010

From San Bruno:

Redwood City residents’ opposition to another jail is “growing“… we wonder how that is possible with a high-end PR firm (like Davies Public Affairs) working for Redwood City.  If you recall, when the story first came out that Redwood City was going to spend $300,000 on a Davies to make the jail ok, The Daily Fetch pointed out that Davies brags that:  Davies makes NIMBYs and naysayers irrelevant… We’ll see about that…
The Daily Journal can’t resist a play on words in today’s paper:  Candidates for Harbor District float new ideas…
While we are on politics… Sue Lempert (in the Daily Journal) gives a run-down of the Horsley/Vargas Supervisors race in November… Insider (Horsley) versus Outside (Vargas)…
If you have been waiting to see what Atherton is all about first hand, perhaps you should hustle (and catch the end of) a meeting this morning about High-Speed Rail in Atherton.  Trust me, this will be an Only In Atherton experience…

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Daily Fetch 9.17.10: O1010101

Friday, September 17th, 2010

This is a big news day, so make sure you have your Starbucks handy…
First things first… this weekend is the coolest weekend in San Jose.  Zero One SJ Biennial is on… and so are the pianos…
There are two strangely-related stories in today’s paper…
1.  San Jose City Council candidate Xavier Campos has been avoiding this story for a long time, but it has finally caught up with him:  Campos faces new MACSA questions.  Today, those questions are being raised by the Chamber of Commerce, which Campos could probably handle, but also by the John Woolfolk at the Mercury News, which is probably a bigger problem for Campos. The Chamber did a public records request from the County Office of Education’s audit of MACSA as MACSA was embezzling money from teachers… and it seems Campos was around when it all went down… (If you are interested, you can see the Chamber’s “op research” into the MACSA/Campos on the Merc’s website…)
and then this…
2.  DA Dolores Carr will (probably? maybe?) serve out the rest of her term, even as she looks for a temp-judge gig.  It seems rumors were swirling (or hopeful thoughts?) that she would leave early so Mr. Rosen can get in there… but we sense there are some hard feelings between Carr and Rosen so Carr is going to make him wait…
Story 1 + Story 2 = Flashback + Flashback…
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group held its Projections event yesterday at Santa Clara University… The Daily Fetch press credential must have gotten lost in cyberspace…
From the Leadership Group to the Chamber…
The Chamber endorsed Carly Fiorina.  We are certain that will tip the scales heavily toward Fiorina… among the 4 people that follow the Chamber’s statewide endorsements… We do have to wonder, however, is this was a quid pro quo for Fiorina speaking at a major Chamber event in April.
We love the juxtaposition of these two stories:
State Senator Elaine Alquist and State Assemblymember Jim Beall were in town yesterday to promise tougher state regulations about fire safety in schools.  (An issue they cared not a lick about until the Trace Elementary fire…)
and then there is this…
From the Chronicle:  California budget stalemate now longest ever…
Perhaps it is because Alquist and Beall aren’t up there… (just kidding… we are certain they have absolutely nothing to do with the budget.)
This is a great line from the Daily News:  More than 40 percent of Palo Alto public employees’ travel expenses didn’t comply with city policies and regulations… Perhaps they got their tutorial from a former firefighter in San Jose?  Or perhaps Craig Mann?
Lots of grocery store news this week (PW closing, Safeway opening 2 new stores)… the Los Altos Safeway would like to double in size.  We’ll see what neighbors say…
Have a good weekend folks… 01…

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Daily Fetch 9.15.10: LAPD is on the case…

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Here’s something you don’t read everyday… or anyday, really.  The City of San Jose voted in favor of a raised, aerial track for High-Speed Rail.  (They don’t really have any other options, but still.)  The vote was 8-2, with Councilmembers Pierluigi Oliverio and Kansen Chu voting against it, for those of you keeping score… (and Pete Constant absent, for those of you that follow such things…)
This story won’t help make the San Jose Police Officers’ case for more officers and probably not for more money either… There is a nationwide decline in violent crime, and “San Jose violent crime mirrors nationwide trend…”  You wouldn’t know it from reading Protect San Jose… We’ll see what they have to say about this soon… Speaking of Protect San Jose. Remember when they used to be a blog that was updated daily?
There is a purse-snatcher (sort of) in Los Altos.  Or at least there was this summer.  The LAPD (Get it?  LAPD…) are on the case…
First PW decided to close its doors, now there are two Safeways closing in Campbell but one really, really cool one opening up in their place (after they build it…)
From West to South County…
A Morgan Hill Unified elementary school principal abruptly resigned yesterday.  Garry Dudley was the principal at Jackson Elementary.  From the story, it was unclear why he resigned in the first month of school:  was it the dropping API scores, the fact that the school didn’t do well enough to get out of Program Improvement status, or was it because there were “…18 complaints were filed against Dudley in the past two years ranging from alleged sexual harassment to alleged verbal abuse of students…”?  Whatever the case, the Morgan Hill Times is on it…

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Daily Fetch 8.5.10: A Safeway, a poll, and Prop 8…

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

The wall-to-wall Prop 8 coverage sort of squeezes other stuff to the back burner today, but here are some other, local highlights…
Here is some shocking news:  A poll commissioned by DMB Developers (the Saltworks guys) shows that there is Countywide support for the project… The critics of the poll point out that the poll questions don’t mention that the proposed development is in a salt pond.  And Shaun Bishop at the Daily News has one of the poll questions, and it just says that the development is on a “1,400 acre industrial site“…
More shocking news:  A report commissioned by the County shows that the County isn’t “overmanaged” and doesn’t have too many managers… Ironically, the person quoted in the story has the word “manager” right in her title.
This must be the most important story of the day, even more important than Prop 8 being overturned, the DMB poll, and the County-commissioned report.  It is so important it is published twice on the County Times website…
Here’s some good news:  teachers and the Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary School District have reached a two-year contract agreement… Here are the details from the Daily Journal…
Usually the news is about the Burlingame Safeway, but today we learn that the new Safeway in Millbrae could open in January 2012.  We wonder what if this is why the Burlingame Safeway revamp hasn’t really started, according to Burlingame Voice…
From Safeway in Millbrae, to BevMo in Menlo Park?  BevMo is trying again to sell into the MP market by applying for a liquor license at 700 El Camino Real (the former Chili’s)…
Half Moon Bay voters will have some important decisions to make in November.  They will vote to increase (or not) their local sales tax… and they will also vote to change their municipal elections to even-numbered years…
See you all Friday…

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