Ever since Chuck Reed was elected mayor of San Jose in 2006, he has held quarterly meetings with the president of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. The goal of these meetings is to allow city and county officials to discuss legal disputes without lawyers present. But that all changed last week, when current Board president Ken Yeager snubbed Reed’s request for a meeting.

San Jose is about to have the dubious distinction of having the first store in the Bay Area. If we’re lucky, it will close down within a month. Whether the food is any good is not the question. At some point conscience must control a person’s pocketbook.