After reading all of the discussions about anonymous postings recently, I was tempted to not tell anyone my real identity when I wrote this column. Then I remembered that it’s at the top of the page. Oh well.
Speaking of anonymity, San Jose will soon have its own whistleblower hotline, but as the Fly reports in Metro, it’s not all fun and games when you get anonymous letter-writers or ethics panels.
Timothy Roberts reports in the Business Journal that the Community Benefit Assessment issue might make a comeback before the City Council before too long. In another labor issue, the Council voted 9-1 to require that drivers for rental car companies at the airport be paid a living wage, Tracey Kaplan reports in the Mercury News. That Council may seem happy to work together, but behind the scenes there’s more than meets the eye, the Merc‘s Internal Affairs column reveals.
Aaron C. Davis discusses the heating up of the city budget process, describing the prospect of 140 jobs possibly being cut from city staff, according to the City Manager.
Elsewhere, residents in Willow Glen are trying to make sure that the apartments burned earlier this year are rebuilt with more safeguards built in, as Alicia Upano reports in the Willow Glen resident.
Also, eBay decided to move its gala dinner out of the tent, reports Tracey Kaplan. Too bad. Since Jude likes to post pictures, I was hoping for a few shots of tuxedos and ball gowns entering the giant blue tent to dine semi-alfresco.
Well, I learned another lesson. Where do I start.
a) Rich, I apologize, it was wrong of me to blast and blast, you are a good guy, and the purpose of all your blogs is to get questions asked and make good comments, yeah, I was jerk to you, and it was wrong.
b) everyone else, I got it as good as I gave it out, and that is the game. It is better to discuss issues than people, because in the end, it is the issues that may be able to change.
c) There is not a single poster out there that does not try to love San Jose and look out for it. So from now on, I will at least be someone that will try to discuss how best to solve the issues for San Jose, because as more people with better sense than me have shown, we can all make it better for all if we try to make it better for ourselves.
All the best, and peace to you.