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Mount Carmel School is 125 years old.
That’s right – 125!!!
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Mount Carmel Catholic elementary school in Redwood City this year celebrates the 125th anniversary of its founding, marking the latest landmark for a pioneering school beloved by faculty, students, alum – and real estate agents.
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The Plot Thickens Around the New Jail!
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Sheriff accuses Redwood City Council of thwarting his efforts to find new location. The State shifts prisoner loads to counties and no one blinks at the huge salaries the new jail will pay out! |
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Petition Started to Protest Location
of New Downtown Jail!
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A Petition drive has been started to protest the location of the new Redwood City prison. If you're interested in signing it, you can do it online at http://www.nodowntownjail.org |
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The "Best Friend" Fitness Regimen! |
Parks like Pulgas Open Space, which welcomes dogs, are busy no matter what the weather. In fact, the outdoors, both woods and town, seems subject to a new paradigm. The canines are getting (dragging?) their owners, female and male, out and about. Perhaps the combined media and medical emphasis on exercise has helped, but it’s the dogs we see leading the way.
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County Getting Ready to Vote on Adding
a 3rd Jail to Downtown Redwood City!
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The County is preparing to ram another prison into our Redwood City downtown whether we like it or not. On June 29th, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors will be voting to accept a proposal from the Sheriff's office to build a 750 person jail on Winslow Street near Veterans Boulevard in Redwood City on 3.5 acre parcel. |
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Dark Skies over Redwood City
on the 4th of July
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While we will still have our Fourth of July parade this year, Redwood City will not have a fireworks show. With all the budget cuts and layoffs that the city recently endured, spending over $50,000 for a half hour extravaganza in the night sky just seems like a luxury that we just can’t afford for the moment.
While I will miss the fireworks, I believe this is the right decisions for the City Council to make. I think it’s appropriate for us not spend the extra money on Independence Day. Independence means being responsible for yourself and having to make tough decisions today to assure your own long-term prosperity. Being responsible this year will mean a little less pizzazz in the night sky for Redwood City.
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Redwood City Considering Laying off 41 Employees,
How much do we pay the Police?
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My math tells me the average police pay would need to be $147K/year to get the $2.2M savings. But many of these positions are suppose to be paid well below $100K? Either we have been way overpaying some of these positions or there is a mistake in the savings? |
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Redwood City gets Out Foxed No More?
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Yesterday’s news was very welcomed. The news was that a local businessman intends to lease the Fox Theatre in Redwood City and live shows should resume this summer. What a great turn of events.
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They must have legalized Pot when I wasn’t looking!
What else could Explain the Behavior of Union Officials? |
This week Union Leaders lobbied city officials from various cities in San Mateo County not to switch to a two-tiered benefits plan. These guys must have been smoking something and for their sake I hope it’s legal.
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Unions & District Cheating the kids?
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It was reported this week that there was a tentative agreement between the Redwood City School District and the teacher’s union – basically the kids got screwed. Maybe the kids need their own union to represent them
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I wish they had been trying to pull a fast one!
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.. . it means that our water and sewer rates are going up in Redwood City and we still have not addressed the budget shortfall, so there will be more taxes on top of higher rates. I would have been happier to find out it was a sneaky method to get those extra needed revenues!
Full Story
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BUDGET UNCERTAINTIES LEAD TO
DRASTIC PLANS FOR LAY-OFFS
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The Redwood City School District had to give approximately 120 employees pink slips – about 80 of the positions will be teachers. At this stage it is unknown how many of these employees will really be terminated since the expected 2010-11 budget shortfall ranges anywhere from $4.7 to $13.7 million. |
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A Meeting with Redwood City's Mayor
Jeff Ira and some Observations
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Redwood City is in some trouble, in the next 4 years, some $10-14M of expenditures need to be cut from the city budget. Currently 81% of the budget is paid out to salaries, this of course will mean less folks to provide us the services we depend on.
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Why do Red-Light Cameras
Give me the Creeps?
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I hate it when I’m at a stoplight and my light turns green, but cars continue to speed by leaving no doubt that the last stragglers ran a red-light. As much as I would love for there to be a cop nearby to write them a ticket, I have an aversion to a camera catching them in the act and snapping a picture.
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Why can't we Cane Car Thieves? |
Yesterday my usual routine was interrupted. I walked to my car in the morning to take my kids to school and it was immediately evident, someone had beaten me to the punch. Sometime overnight someone was in my car – damn!
Things were strewn about all over, I could see right away that my GPS system was gone - not the built in type, but mounted to the dash. I could not find my sunglasses and my garage remote was also gone. |
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Think we're broke now?
See what happens if we don't educate our Kids?
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The Redwood City School District is facing some deep budget cuts. The District faces estimated cuts of $4.7M - $10.6M, the wide range is due to the uncertain nature of the Governor's upcoming proposal. |
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