With the blessings of what puts people in office.
The Pacific Grove City Council on Wednesday will again consider leasing the city’s golf course to a private operator, but this time with agreements in hand with two city employee unions.
The council postponed action on the golf course lease, which city officials say will benefit the city’s finances, at its last meeting after the General Employees Association filed a complaint with the Public Employees Relations Board.
Bill Kampe explains water, economy and stuff.
“This is all complicated stuff,” he said.
“It’s a very complicated situation,” he said.
On Feb. 24, marine scientists along the coast — including researchers from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Hopkins Marine Station, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and UC Santa Cruz — will start collecting giant kelp and testing it for traces of radioactive elements from Fukushima.
The kelp collectors stressed that, even if they do detect Fukushima’s radiation emanating from the kelp, it should not pose a health hazard to humans.
CALL GODZILLA NOW!
25 years ago and the murderer still breathes.
On a fall day in 1989, 31-year-old Kim Hickman was moving out of her Pacific Grove apartment when she was attacked and sexually assaulted by Hughes, then 28. A pathologist testified at Hughes’ trial that it took more than an hour for Hickman to die after being stabbed and strangled.
Hughes’ death sentence has been upheld by the state’s Supreme Court. But after almost 24 years, Hickman’s mother, Nan McMahan, is growing tired of waiting to see the case come to an end.
Now a proposed California ballot measure aims to speed up executions and restrict privileges for death row inmates. But even if it passes, the measure could face a slew of legal challenges and delays.
By-The-Sea says “Take ’em down”. Especially if they are seasonal home use grade – not meant for outdoor exposure for long periods.
City code allows the lights to be on display from the third Wednesday of November until the second Wednesday of January. The law applies to trees, public rights-of-way and private properties in commercial zones, and commercial operations in residential districts.
Nearly all merchants have complied, but there are some who should remove the remaining lights, said planning chief Rob Mullane.
Will it be like Monterey’s program that spent the money on more cops and bus tickets to elsewhere?
A report prepared by Fischer and Cuneo said a 2013 count estimated about 1,240 homeless people on the Peninsula, including 350 women and several hundred elderly people.
“Many of these people are capable of working their way back into being productive members of society if given some assistance,”
Last year, the Monterey City Council set aside $40,000 for homeless services, but the fund was tapped in October to provide $20,000 to pay for increased police patrols downtown and on Fisherman’s Wharf. The Monterey council previously agreed to spend $1,500 to buy bus passes for homeless people needing transportation.
Something to consider – big dumpsters getting away and smaller driverless trucks following.
The episode started about 5:40 a.m. Friday when a small garbage truck was picking up a large trash bin that got loose and started rolling downhill. The driver got out to chase the bin, but didn’t set his truck brake.
The truck, too, rolled downhill, hit two parked cars, a house and a sport-utility vehicle that rammed into a second home.
Both homes were damaged, and the gas line at the first one was broken.
Like most humans though, those surveyed changed their minds when told about the cost.
The report was prepared by Pacific Grove resident Hank Armstrong, vice president of communications for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and police Sgt. Carl Lafata.
Some 76 percent of respondents preferred a city police department, even when told it would cost considerably more than a regional police plan or contracting for services.
But when told contracting for police services or a regional policing plan could save the city as much as $500,000 or $1 million a year, about 69 percent said they would support the idea, while 22 were unlikely to support it.
If it wasn’t broke, break it so it can get fixed? A step toward banning cars downtown? And why is the intruding mess not as big over at Bratty’s corner?
recent – same tracks, 2/15/2014
2 cones and a pylon, still getting hit.
The city’s weekly bulletin says the curb feature at the southwest corner of the intersection was reviewed by the city traffic engineer, who felt it should be cut back four feet. That will put the curb outside the standard 30-feet turning radius.
Sharon Daly had been drinking.
Recently, prosecutors and Elder’s attorney revealed that blood tests show Daly had also been drinking prior to the deadly crash, although no details about either driver’s level of intoxication have been made public.
Friends of the two women have expressed frustration about the many months it took to charge Elder after the collision, but his waiving of the preliminary hearing could now speed the process along.
Officials with the district attorney’s office said at least some of the delay was because a “black box” that records braking, speed and other vehicle information was difficult to extract from the women’s car.
