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News from the Big Apple. Phil Bump is having his usual effect on candidates. Eric Gioia did not receive the New York Times endorsement for Public Advocate. Due to a dozen posts from San Jose activists on the Times websire, and also due to de Blasio’s impressive performance (he hires effective consultants not people like Bump who have to leave town, the New York Times has endorse Bill de Blasio for Public Advocate. Perk up, Phil, CUNY student body elections can use your hand.
San Jose should make the city council positions part time, and cut the salaries and extravagant benefits the council and their respective staff receives. This should also be done at the state level, saving hundreds of millions of dollars each year. This is what most other cities and states do currently and they are all in better shape than California.
Pellier Park and the street realignment are part of several projects coming to the area. There is the public market, North San Pedro towers, Carlyle Tower, Italian Cultural Center and so on. It’s going to change dramatically in the coming years.
The city should really consider relocating/incorporating Zanotto’s into the San Pedro Square area. The new The Market by Safeway at The 88 looks awesome! But it may have the negative effect of draining business from Z’s. Time will tell.
Great idea Tony, as a downtown resident I have been a regular zanotto’s cust for many years. It is a little sad that the safeway will most likely kill their business but that new store is just a better place to shop IMO. Moving it over to the San Pedro area might be the best thing for them….
“The IMSS plan is primarily designed to support Mexican taxpayers who have been paying into the system for decades, and officials say they don’t want to be overrun by bargain-hunting foreigners.
“If they started flooding down here for this, it wouldn’t be sustainable,” said Javier Lopez Ortiz, IMSS director in San Miguel de Allende.”
News from the Big Apple. Phil Bump is having his usual effect on candidates. Eric Gioia did not receive the New York Times endorsement for Public Advocate. Due to a dozen posts from San Jose activists on the Times websire, and also due to de Blasio’s impressive performance (he hires effective consultants not people like Bump who have to leave town, the New York Times has endorse Bill de Blasio for Public Advocate. Perk up, Phil, CUNY student body elections can use your hand.
Californians need to understand that the position of public advocate is truly useless:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07302009/postopinion/editorials/ax_the_advocate_182070.htm
San Jose should make the city council positions part time, and cut the salaries and extravagant benefits the council and their respective staff receives. This should also be done at the state level, saving hundreds of millions of dollars each year. This is what most other cities and states do currently and they are all in better shape than California.
Signs of change at Pellier Park.
Signs have been put up promising great improvements to the park are “coming soon”.
Since, according to the artist’s rendition, some major street realignments would be necessary, I’m assuming that “soon” is a nonspecific term.
I guess this is intended as part of the big McEneryville development now in the works for the area.
Still it’s nice to know that Pellier Park has not been totally forgotten.
Pellier Park and the street realignment are part of several projects coming to the area. There is the public market, North San Pedro towers, Carlyle Tower, Italian Cultural Center and so on. It’s going to change dramatically in the coming years.
The city should really consider relocating/incorporating Zanotto’s into the San Pedro Square area. The new The Market by Safeway at The 88 looks awesome! But it may have the negative effect of draining business from Z’s. Time will tell.
Great idea Tony, as a downtown resident I have been a regular zanotto’s cust for many years. It is a little sad that the safeway will most likely kill their business but that new store is just a better place to shop IMO. Moving it over to the San Pedro area might be the best thing for them….
Now THIS is true irony!
“The IMSS plan is primarily designed to support Mexican taxpayers who have been paying into the system for decades, and officials say they don’t want to be overrun by bargain-hunting foreigners.
“If they started flooding down here for this, it wouldn’t be sustainable,” said Javier Lopez Ortiz, IMSS director in San Miguel de Allende.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-08-31-mexico-health-care_N.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclude=Juno