Comments by Barry Parr
November 02, 2007
David, thanks for posting. I appreciate your willingness to come over to Coastsider and respond to my angry rant. I have to disagree with your take on the headlines. I didn't propose my own headlines seriously, but to show that the Nevada residency was a total non-story and the tax story was weak. I'm not the only person who believes that the (valuable) journalistic principle of objectivity has been used in recent years to get the good reporters nationwide to propagate smears, flack, and propaganda…
October 31, 2007
First, I want to Carl and Mary Kay for their excellent comments. I know there are two sides to this issue and you've done a great job of representing yours. I attended many of the meetings when outsourcing was discussed. I came away with two significant impressions: Peter Bonano was right about the morale in the firehouse and it needs to be addressed. I cited the vandalism and harassment as evidence of poor morale. You're right that I imputed a motive that might not have been correct, but I found…
October 30, 2007
Both slates represent people who created the problems.
Doug Mackintosh was an HMB director from 1987-2003 and has a son in the department. And the whole slate is representing the interests of the union they're supposed to manage.
It's really a question of choosing an outcome and not a slate. The outcome from the candidates I endorsed is clear. The outcome their opposition represents is not, other than maintaining the status quo.
October 02, 2007
Most of these sound like guidelines and not regulations. Also, is the FAA the only enforcement body?
October 02, 2007
Dr. Fisher's obituary in the Providence Journal has more detail on his work: Pioneer in AIDS treatment, Alvan Fisher dies at 57 01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 By Tom Mooney Journal Staff Writer Dr. Alvan E. Fisher, who in 1983 treated the first Rhode Islander diagnosed with AIDS and went on to become a pioneer in the treatment of people with the disease, died Friday of renal cancer in his California home. He was 57. Dr. Steven Sepe, who worked with Fisher for more than 20 years, remembered…
September 17, 2007
I fixed the link to the photo in Ken's letter, and it's still worth checking out. It's a remarkable picture:
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1368281456025665264DokIMU
September 13, 2007
I'm told the LCP will be giving out free fluorescent light bulbs at the event.
September 04, 2007
In his carefully-worded smartvoter profile, Chris Mickelson says he was "educated at Coastside Schools and Local College".
http://www.smartvoter.org/2001/11/06/ca/sm/vote/mickelsen_c/
August 30, 2007
Mickelsen may also be getting a pass on this because, as several folks have told me after reading his note: "Yep, that sounds like Chris." On the surface, it looks like a Dog Bites Man story.
Here's a thought experiment. How do you think the Review would have played the story if a Boy Scout like Jim Grady or John Muller had written the note? What if Bonnie McClung had written it? How about Marcia Raines? Try wrapping your head around that for a moment.
August 30, 2007
Review editor Clay Lambert's treatment of the Mickelsen's "letter" story is a serious lapse of judgement. In the paper, he tacked it on to the end of an unrelated story, after the jump to the inside of the paper, where he knows no one is going to read it. On the web, he buried it in the sixth paragraph of an unread blog under the meaningless headline "Lest you think all conflict has been resolved..." If he were a rookie, the technical term for this would be "burying the lede": putting the real news…
August 27, 2007
I don't object to the word "blog". Lots of folks (including Clay) have tried to use it to insult me. I think it just shows their confusion. There's no way to know for certain, but I see little evidence that POST doesn't want their land purchases used by people. They encourage agriculture on the ag land they own, they try to sell their land to state and federal park agencies, they financed a planned recreational park for Half Moon Bay, and they have not enforced any access restrictions in Rancho Corral…
August 27, 2007
My goal has been to keep this conversation on-topic. I think the timeline story would be a good place to carry on a conversation about Wavecrest before the POST purchase. https://coastsider.com/index.php/site/news/510/ Talkabout is very...um....lively. It's not really my cup of tea: anonymous and angry. Kind of like the O'Reilly Factor without O'Reilly's scrupulous attention to accuracy and fairness. Mary (and Ray) know I don't suppress any opinions here, but I try to maintain a lively and honest…
August 27, 2007
The battle over Wavecrest was a tragedy for the community, but it's over. Bill, you and I disagree about whose fault it was, but pointless arguments over ancient history is destructive to community. It's time to move on. The city and unincorporated Coastside desperately need real parks with grass and picnic tables and playing fields and play structures and gardens and bathrooms and trees and trails and more. I support a fair and public process for deciding where those parks would be and what they'll…
August 25, 2007
This is not the place for a discussion of why we don't have a new boys and girls club or middle school. You know there are two sides to that issue that were argued to death over the course of the last decade. It would be trolling to raise that issue here. Now that the school district is renovating Cunha we'll finally have our new middle school and the b&g club have chosen the site for their new building. I agree that the site has great potential for recreation. I'm not sure the coastal bluffs would…
August 24, 2007
Please don't troll on Coastsider. That's all ancient history at this point.
Looking forward, we're presented with a remarkable opportunity. POST is already clearly willing to support active parks as part of their open space mission and there is plenty of space on this site for both active and passive recreation, even after the needs of wildlife and open space are accomodated.
Twenty years from now, how would we we like to see this magnificent parcel fit into the Coastside community?
August 16, 2007
This remarkable turn of events has so many layers of implications for the Coastside that it will take years to sort them all out.
One of the most interesting is the relationship between POST and the city. POST is now one of the biggest landowners in HMB and it now owns a vital piece of its active recreation facilities (Smith Field) and is the lienholder on the Pilarcitos Creek park site.
August 09, 2007
Sounds like we have a winner. I just posted a story from the Santa Cruz Sentinel todayu about the deaths of baby salmon sharks.
Thanks to Carl for the ID and elaboration. I wouldn't have found the story without it.
August 06, 2007
I agree that it would be a mistake to think that this is totally an apples-to-apples comparison. But it is still a worthwhile analysis. Part of the problem that smaller cities face is that the cost of necessary overhead (e.g. the Chief's salary) is spread over few officers, and over fewer taxpayers. That's one reason that outsourcing looks attractive as a generic strategy. Also, an outsourcing model will provide you with access to resources and career paths for officers that a small police force…
July 29, 2007
What is Caltrans's responsibility for pedestrian safety in towns split by state highways?
July 29, 2007
John Lynch sent me a copy of his statement regarding the park petition to be posted as a comment. According to Lynch's statement, in less than three weeks, more han 1800 Coastsiders, including more than 1000 Half Moon Bay residents signed the petition asking the city council to make the park a reality.
You can see it below.
https://coastsider.com/images/uploads/recreation/hmbparks/parkpetition.jpg
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