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.
Google’s Middle East marketing executive Wael Ghonim has been missing in Egypt since Jan. 25. His family believes that he is in police custody and reports receiving phone calls that he is “being taught a lesson.” Google will not comment in order to protect his safety.
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.
A local family that participated in the Minute to Win It game show came away $500,000 richer. The Bishops of Willow Glen had five children, ages 10 to 19, participate in a series of challenging games, each one bringing them one step closer to the grand prize of $1 million dollars. The family went farther than any of the show’s other contestants. Now they have to decide what to do with the money they’ve won.
These ten classic field trips in San Jose and surrounding areas will make you feel like a kid again.
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.
Steven Dietz’s “Private Eyes,” the new offering from Dragon Productions, pushes this underlying conundrum by adding multiple layers of deliberate deceit.
