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  • Spam Control

    Dear Bloggers,

    You may have noticed lately that we are suffering from some spam attacks.  We've communicated with WordPress who run this TypePad-based blogging platform and they are looking at some improvements to their anti-spam defenses.  But there are no improvements in the immediate future so they are suggesting, and we have decided to implement, "moderated comments" for awhile.

    This means that when you add a comment to a post, it will sit in queue until one of the editors approves it as a real comment–not a vague advertisement for sneakers, Viagra, Ugg boots or anything else.  Please be assured that any and all real comments about anything on the blog will be approved and will appear as they have in the past.

    We suspect that the spam is coming from hired, human spammers in Asia and this approach may well push them to go spam elsewhere.  We can turn "moderated comments" on and off at will, so there may be times when your comment appears immediately and times when it does not.  It's sort of like cat-and-mouse while WordPress works on the challenge.

    Blog on,

    The Editorial Board

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    Burlingame Voice

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  • Mayoral Change 2010

    Mid-November is when B'game changes mayors according to a rotation set out about 10 years ago.  Last night outgoing Mayor Cathy Baylock was thanked by numerous citizens for her year of leadership, mostly on the High Cost Rail issue and years of work on Safeway.

    Noting that 2010 had been a year of "community and unity", Baylock stayed focused on major issues like the declining budget, the Downtown plan and the work with the City's bargaining units to freeze labor costs.  Here's hoping the new Mayor can stay focussed as well.  Thanks to local photog extrodinaire Mark Hundley for this shot of the proceedings.

    Cathy Terry 2 

     

    Posted by:

    Joe

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  • Easton Library Saved

    There has been great progress on Easton Library fundraising since we wrote about the grass roots effort to save the branch back in August.  While the comments back then show that not everyone thinks it a good use of City money, I think they are in the small minority.  Last night Gretchen Cody, who spearheaded the effort, presented outgoing Mayor Cathy Baylock with the last installment of $75K in donations that will keep the library open.  Nice job.

    Gretchen Cody and CB$ 
    As the Mercury Times notes here:

    Still, library leaders cannot predict the branch's fate beyond next spring. Harding said officials will wait until the overall city budget process starts, likely in January, before evaluating whether — and how — it could stay open.

    We'll keep our fingers crossed.

    Posted by:

    Joe

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  • Wells Far-gone

    The Claw was up early today and so was the Voice.  Here is a photo of the Claw chewing on the backside of the old Wells Fargo building at 6:15 am.  As I recall, the street side of the building will remain and be reconfigured into smaller spaces with Chipotle taking one of them.

    Clawing Wells Fargo 

    Posted by:

    Joe

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  • Another Year. Another Little Big Game

    The game is always a great smalltown American thrill, but so is the pomp and circumstance surronding the game. The pep rallies, the simple idea of a crosstown rivalry and my favorite, the parading of the marching bands from one school to the other.

    This year, the game was held at Burlingame High, so marching down Deleware to Dwight to Burlingame Avenue on to the stadium was the S.M.High Marching Band. Good show.

    Sm marching band 1

    The band marching down Burlingame Avenue from Dwight Rd.

    S m marching band 2

     

    Posted by:

    Russ Cohen

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  • High Cost Rail: Part 37: Food for thought

    In the first of a series of videos  containing some questions and some answers regarding the planning of High Speed Rail in California.


     

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    Burlingame Voice

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  • High Cost rail: Part 36: Rally in Burlingame

    Crowd and cameraman 2
    Despite periodic downpours and showers, a crowd estimated between 400 and 600 from throughout The Peninsula and some as far away as Gilroy and Morgan Hill came together to voice their opposition and concern about how High Speed Rail has been planned for the state.

    My guess is that there would have been even more attendees if it wasn't for the weather. During the rally, which was also attended by many elected officials, speakers who included Burlingame Mayor Cathy Baylock, San Mateo Councilman Robert Ross, Brisbane Councilwoman Sepi Richardson and Executive Director of Community Coalition on High Speed Rail's Gary Patton, expressed concern about HSR in a variety of ways from the financial impacts to the environmental impacts, to the impacts on our quality of life.

    "Boondoggle" was the word of the day.

    highspeedboondoggle.com is a website that has much more information and they also have a facebook page with even more information. Check them out and check out a few pics from today's rally.

    And check out some video as well here.

    Gary patton 2

    Posted by:

    Russ Cohen

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  • Walgreens Requiem

    Here's another cool picture.  The most common thing I am hearing from people is "I didn't realize how big the Safeway/Walgreens parcel was until the green construction fencing went up around it."  Followed by something like "I'm glad the City got this right even if it did take a long time."

    Wall_green 
     

    Posted by:

    Joe

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  • $upervisor’$ Race

    Today's Daily Post has a piece about the upcoming County supe's race.  It reads:

    Ed McGovern, the man who ran Don Horsley's victorious and costly campaign for supervisor, said San Mateo County could see another hotly contested and costly race when it come time to replace Supervisor Mark Church…

    A special election will happen because Measure U passed on Tuesday and that is a good thing.  The Post goes on to note that Dave Pine, Gina Papan, Rich Holober and Terry Nagel have announced they are running and that

    McGovern, who's run several successful campaigns in the county (Ed note: and some unsuccessful ones) said he expects the candidates in that race to raise and spend as many campaign dollars as they can.

    I hope that's a bit of a misquote because it's so obvious as to be ridiculous.  This quote is better

    "I suspect if there's four pretty determined candidates, they are each going to try to raise and spend $200,000."

    Papan has her father's connection$, Pine has some prior business connection$ in the Valley, Holober runs for pretty much everything as a back-of-the-pack candidate and Nagel will have serious trouble raising that kind of money due to how divi$ive she can be.  Should be interesting.

    Posted by:

    Joe

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  • Sunday Rally. Rethink High Speed Rail

    Rally flyer

    Posted by:

    Russ Cohen

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