High Speed Rail has certainly gotten the attention of folks up and down the Peninsula -- think Atherton, Menlo Park, and Palo Alto. But now, Mayor Chuck Reed and Councilmembers Pierluigi Oliverio and Sam Liccardo are concerned about a raised HSR track through downtown. So they did what elected officials do when they are concerned... they wrote a letter.
While that letter might have an impact, we doubt it caused this... The Executive Director of the California High Speed Rail Authority (Mehdi Morshed) is retiring in March.
Here's a fun story to end the week on: Silicon Valley bankruptcies are at an all-time high. Have a good weekend...
While we're on bankruptcies...
It is nice to see folks in the Merc newsroom are reading Watch Dog (or at least the Gilroy Dispatch...) They caught up with the story about the Sargent Ranch folks filing for bankruptcy... The Dispatch had it earlier in the week...
Four folks who are definately not filing for bankruptcy anytime soon are the four folks who are officially running for Governor (Whitman, Campbell, Poizner, and Brown -- sort of sounds like a law firm...) are being asked by the Bay Area News Group papers to release their tax filings. From rich to not-as-rich, here's where we think folks will line up: Whitman, Poizner, Campbell, Brown...
Lately when Watch Dog has written about the Santa Clara Unified School District is involved either teenage models or rapist-teachers -- but today it is new type of story for the District. Parents slept out and lined up for their chance to get their kids into the kindergarten at the Don Callejon School. No word if anyone uttered: I need a miracle...
There is an OpEd in today's Merc celebrating 30 years of the Rep. Kudos Mr. Reber and all who enjoy the theatre...
Taking Scott Herhold's column and running with it -- water well owners in South County are protesting proposed fees. Apparently, if more than 1/2 of all the well owners protest, then they won't have to pay it, according to the Morgan Hill Times.
There was a bomb threat at Palo Alto's City Hall yesterday morning which caused an evacuation (obviously). Coincidently (?) a small earthquake shoot Palo Alto City Hall (and the rest of us) at almost the exact same time... perhaps the bomb-threat-maker caused the earthquake?
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