Welcome To My Website
Note:
Letters to the editor are still the best way to make
your views known.
Be brief and include your home address and phone:
Email:
San Mateo Daily Journal at opinion@smdailyjournal.com
San Mateo Daily News at editorial@sanmateodailynews.com
San Mateo County Times at smctlet@angnewspapers.com
San Mateo County Independent at smiedit@aol.com
San Francisco Chronicle at letters@sfchronicle.com
San Jose Mercury News at letters@sjmercury.com
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To find out what's going on in the City
of San Mateo and to do something good for this town,
check out these links:
Report a pot hole or other road
hazard in the city of San Mateo.
Help the City of San Mateo create an effective and beneficial
Traffic Calming Policy.
Sample letters
at bottom of the TC page.
Find out how to help make permanent the traffic
circle at 5th Ave. and Eldorado St.
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Help save
San Mateo High School, a venerable treasure that is threatened by 4 myopic
school
board members. News Flash:
Even though the EIR amply demonstrates the truth behind
Save
San Mateo High School's claims and shows that the best alternative is retrofitting,
rather than
demolition, and the courts have ruled that the bond money cannot be used for
demolition,the
myopic school board still voted to tear the building down.
While the school board seems to think that San Mateo High
School will qualify for state emergency
funds while other much poorer districts suffer with real problems, this will
still not rectify the loss of
a historic monument and anchor to our past as San Mateans.
A better solution would be for the school board to build
a new school in Foster City. I would
support a bond fund for that.
I will vehemently oppose a bond fund to tear this school
down. If such a bond is placed on the ballot,
I will immediately mount an intense campaign to discourage anyone I know from
voting for it. I
voted in favor of the bond fund that would repair this school. I have always
voted in favor of
schools and libraries and other projects, so this will be the first time I
have ever opposed such a
measure and it should be taken as a warning sign to the school board that
if a knee-jerk "yes" voter
such as myself would oppose a school bond fund, then maybe they should reevaluate
their priorities.
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The Beresford Neighborhood Association has stepped forward
with an agenda to save the racetrack
and to preserve Verona Ridge. The public comment period for Verona Ridge is
currently open, but
will close soon. So, please write a letter opposed to development of this
last space of open land in
San Mateo. Stay tuned for this website's help on this, but for now, for more
information, please
email Stacy Litvakor call
Mike Germano at 650-345-0280
Tp help save the racetrack, please write a letter
to the San Mateo Land Use/Transportation CAC
and contact your local neighborhood or homeowner's association.
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The main library plan has been accepted by the San Mateo City
Council, with the caveat that the
exterior still needs public comments. The public comment period is now over,
but the legal battles
have only begun, since the Bank of America doesn't want it's property condemned.
Stay tuned.
If you think a more modestly-sized library is better or you
still have views on the exterior or
overall design,send a letter to the editor of one of the newspapers listed
above.
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For pet health, please click on My Vet. Site
still under construction.
This site is intended as a basis for a new veterinary website.
I will start off with having an
"Ask the Vet" page and am beginning to put together a page for First
Aid for pet owners
and At Home Health Care. This advice is intended to complement and not replace
proper
veterinary care. I am located on the San Francisco Peninsula in California,
so these pages
will be directed toward pet care in this area.
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Bicycle Pages
For bicycle-related issues, please click on Dani's_Bike_Site.
(more changes to make)
For Updates on Rte.
92
For conversations
on current issues.
For
trail riding
This site contains links to the Peninsula
Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition and other
sites and serves
as a reservoir for additional information about various projects.
Sincerest condolences to Minna's family and friends - the hours spent by
hundreds of volunteers did not go for
naught. The outpouring of effort helped strengthen the community and draw
us all closer together. By these efforts,
we all got to know Minna.Go to Minna
Sandmeyer's website.
4/ 02 The Peninsula Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition has created a memorial
page for Jon
Davidson.