Faced with a $30 million deficit, sharp cuts in service are looming for Caltrain. Weekend services might be eliminated entirely, and weekday services could be limited to commute times only. Other possibilities include suspending service at seven to 10 stations, and eliminating all service south of Diridon Station.
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San Jose will soon be one step closer to being an electric car Mecca, now that Tesla Motors has confirmed that it plans to open a new showroom on Santana Row. Tesla already has 16 show rooms, including one in Menlo Park and another in Marin. Its first European showroom is scheduled to open in Milan next week.
Some Apple shareholders are getting antsy now that Steve Jobs is on medical leave again.Some of them will be asking Apple to release its succession plan at a shareholders meeting scheduled for Feb. 23. The group is represented by the Central Laborers’ Pension Fund, and has the support of proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services. Apple responded by saying a succession plan is in place and subject to annual review.
High-speed rail won’t become a reality in the Bay Area any time soon, after state leaders decided Thursday to push back planning to next year at the earliest.
While food banks struggle to keep local people fed, funding for the federal food stamp program goes unclaimed. The problem, says Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose), is that the application process is too complicated and involves being fingerprinted. Until it can be simplified, Second Harvest is helping people fill out the forms, hoping to reduce some of the strain.
Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land broke a story Tuesday morning about Google’s sting operation, aimed at Bing, which convincingly proved that Microsoft is using Google to perform Bing’s search results. Later yesterday, an unsigned piece on The Official Google Blog spelled out its accusation against Microsoft and broke down the sting operation.
Rob Fischer has another hit on his hands. Fischer is a local restaurateur who owns the Palo Alto Creamery and Reposado, an upscale regional Mexican restaurant across the street from the old-school diner. Last month, he opened Scratch, a fine-dining American restaurant in downtown Mountain View.
Jerry Brown’s plan to dismantle the state’s redevelopment agencies would make things a lot worse for San Jose’s staggering deficit—and eliminate the funding source for the salaries of Mayor Chuck Reed and the San Jose city council.
Chris Moore was introduced Tuesday as San Jose’s ninth chief of police, after serving in the role in an interim basis for the last three months.
After several violent incidents last year, Club Wet is on the verge of having its doors permanently shuttered by the city. But any decision in court could be delayed after a last-minute lawsuit was filed by some outsiders to the party.
