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Beginning today, San Carlos will outsource police services to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department. Greg Rothaus is the city’s last police chief.
Stanford University economist Alain Enthoven has made a career of fighting wasteful spending in the public and private sectors. Recently, he published a report lining out the financial ramifications of the high-speed rail project, concluding that it will most likely never be profitable.
East Palo Alto, once the nation’s murder capital, has seen a drastic reduction in crime during Ronald Davis’s tenure as police chief. The city’s top cop is known for progressive strategies and resourcefulness.
Danny Bliss and Ben Canning, two third-year teachers at Sequoia High School, take much of what they learned as Stanford Teacher Education Program teachers with them to the halls of Sequoia.
Oakland artists Yvette Molina and Sarah Filley plan to build a giant terrarium that will float in the center of Oakland’s Lake Merritt in 2012.
Marijuana delivery services have spread throughout the Silicon Valley in the past year, but police doubt some of the services’ legitimacy.
San Mateo’s Board of Supervisors recently approved over $100,000 in funding to pay for initiatives to support to local nonprofits fighting foreclosures in the county. For credit counselors such as Keisha Woods with Northern California Urban Development in East Palo Alto, that aid means hope for homeowners in a county underserved by larger organizations battling foreclosures.
On Oct. 4, the San Mateo City Council voted unanimously to support Proposition 22, the ballot measure that seeks to limit the state’s authority to borrow or withhold certain public funds from local governments. Opponents of the measure, on the Nov. 2 ballot, include the California Teachers Association and the California Professional Firefighters unions. Municipal governments across California want increased control over local funds.