Jan Gray, who can be seen selling a million-dollar house on the front page of this week’s Review, and Judy Taylor.
MROSD expansion is a side-show in Half Moon Bay politics, compared to Wavecrest, freeway-widening, or CCWD’s ballooning infrastructure. Most of HMB’s population is pretty heavily suburbanized already.
I was told this by Holly Costa of the Corps of Engineers:
To answer Mr. LaGuardia’s question: Yes, the Corps does consider community comments. All letters should be sent to:
Attn: Regulatory Branch
US Army Corps of Engineers
333 Market Street, 8th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
and please reference file number 29405S
I don’t think we have enough information to say one way or the other.
The breeding ponds will be within the delineated wetlands on the Wavecrest site.
I have been waiting for the answer, and I just got it from the Corps. I’ve updated the story to reflect it.
I decided to focus on the people who are now on the board. With all due respect to Jonathan Lundell, folks who are neither on the board nor candidates any longer are of marginal interest.
I did look at Lundell’s forms while I was in the county office and I don’t remember seeing any contributions that seemed newsworthy.
A Pattern Language is one of the best books ever written about anything.
I never understood how houses and communities worked until I read that book. It literally changed the way I saw the world around me.
Another reader has suggested “Politics and the English Language”, an essay in which George Orwell worked out a lot of his ideas about language, propanganda, and thought control that would later appear in 1984.
I’ve added an Orwell collection to the Review’s wish list. No journalist can go wrong with a little Orwell, after all. But you can also get this essay from lots of places on the Web, such as this one:
http://eserver.org/langs/politics-english-language.txt
I’ve added it to the wish list, but, to be fair, the Review’s problems have less to do with grammar than with style.
Everything you said supports the statement that we have a huge stake in the county government. And nothing refutes the statement that we have next to no influence.
I didn’t say that we’re not getting our share of county tax revenues. We may not be, but I didn’t say it here. I’ve generally agreed with Will Rogers: I’m glad we don’t get all the government we pay for.
I agree that the book could have benefitted from more attention to detail in copying the photos and that many are noticeably skewed because they were photographed at an angle. I think part of the problem stemmed from the fact the author was limited in his access to the photos at the historical society and by his lack of experience in graphic arts. I also wish it had an index.
I was willing to overlook that because there is a lot of good stuff in the book that isn’t available anywhere else. It’s also clear that he didn’t skimp on the printing.
It looks like the link has changed. The County Times moves their stories into a paid archive after they’ve been online for two weeks.
If you do a search on the site, there will be a form at the bottom of the page to search the paid archives. One article is $2.95
Of course, on the Coastside, Comcast doesn’t even have to compete with broadcast.
Your point about the the relative coastside population of the two wards is a good one. Of course, by splitting off the southern part of the coast, they’ve isolated the troublemakers.
But 30% is a pretty big chunk if coastsiders could be expected to take more interest in MROSD than the rest of the ward.
I haven’t seen any evidence that the Review collaborated in this. However, they did manage to delay exposing the plot until after the election.
The Review did reveal their identities. I suspect this question is a setup because one of them is up for reelection this year. You can see it here:
http://hmbreview.com/articles/2004/11/10/news/local_news/story05.txt
From the Review:
The ad was purchased by CCWD Director Chris Mickelsen. He said last week that fellow water board director Jim Larimer and another man, whose name he couldn’t remember, were responsible for the ad.
“Cabrillo board President Jolanda Schreurs said the third man is Kirk Riemer. Riemer’s name appears on a list of Coastsiders who endorsed Lundell’s opponent, Charles Gardner. Riemer did not return a telephone call seeking comment.”
Oops. I could have sworn I checked that link. It’s now working.
The Midcoast mailing list is indispensible if you want to understand what’s happening on the coast. To subscribe, send a message to
Both at the candidates forum at the high school and on the midcoast mailing list you said that a second middle school in El Granada would increase the traffic on Hwy 1.
I don’t see how that is possible.
Can you point to an analysis that demonstrates a second school in EG would generate more traffic on Hwy 1 than “one middle school to rule them all” located in HMB?
It’s not surprising the big backpacks are a health risk. As in all things educational, there’s research to prove it:
Hickey conducted a research study on the physically damaging affects of heavy backpacks after witnessing her own children strain under the weight of their schoolbooks. About 70 percent of the middle school students in her experiment were lugging around a backpack that was harmful to their growing bodies. While small kids hauling around 25-pound backpacks is a common sight in elementary, middle and high school hallways, according to Hickey’s computation, only a 200-pound person can safely carry a bag of this size.
My question for all the candidates: Shouldn’t there be lockers at Cunha? Will you support lockers at the new middle school?
Just the facts: Where's the water for CCWD?, Jul 4 9:50am comment by Kevin J. Lansing, Ken Johnson has it right. Why is an elected school board member like Charles Gardner more occupied with things like…
Just the facts: Where's the water for CCWD?, Jul 3 10:43pm comment by Ken Johnson, Yes Paul, Charlie Gardner has an 'agenda' - do to MWSD what he accomplished at CUSD. He has been on…
Just the facts: Where's the water for CCWD?, Jul 3 5:57am comment by Paul Perkovic, Charlie, Do you have any MWSD agendas, staff reports, minutes, letters, etc. - i.e., some actual documentation - that supports…
Just the facts: Where's the water for CCWD?, Jul 2 10:44pm comment by Carl May, Mr. Gardner: Why an intertie with the NCCWD? You say "and only use the water when we need it." Do…
Just the facts: Where's the water for CCWD?, Jul 2 10:22pm comment by Ken Johnson, Charlie Gardner, You are good at asking questions and making unsupported claims - you are not very reliable at answering…
Just the facts: Where's the water for CCWD?, Jul 2 8:46pm comment by Charlie Gardner, Paul, What has MWSD done to investigate the possibility of an inter-tie to the north with Pacifica? Is it true…
Just the facts: Where's the water for CCWD?, Jul 2 5:31pm comment by Paul Perkovic, The analysis is very useful to Montara Water and Sanitary District (MWSD) customers, too. One of the misplaced attacks that…
Just the facts: Where's the water for CCWD?, Jul 2 1:47pm comment by Todd McGee, I'm sure Paul's analysis is correct and very useful to the CCWD customers. And I will readily admit that he…
Letter: Alternatives to July 4th fireworks?, Jul 2 12:29pm comment by Leonard Woren, What would the 2 sides be in a 2008 tug-of-war?
Just the facts: Where's the water for CCWD?, Jul 2 12:25pm comment by Leonard Woren, Every new CCWD customer increases the water cost for all existing CCWD customers. This is simple arithmetic, which "engineer" Jim…
