Election should determine changes to LCP The City Council of Half Moon Bay is in the process of revising the Local Coastal Program. The council's goal is to give to the California Coastal Commission the direct and complete authority to regulate development in our community. Why? Because som...
3.9K - Jun. 22, 2005; scored 1000.0 Improving infrastructure does not indicate support for uncontrolled growth Some people in our community claim that we must choose between uncontrollable growth and improvements to our infrastructure. They say that infrastructure improvements will destroy the character of our community. This is not true. The recent calamity ...
2.9K - Sep. 28, 2005; scored 1000.0 The soap opera known as Wavecrest Avid soap opera viewers readily admit that they can miss weeks, even months of their favorite shows and still know what's going on soon after the next time they tune in. Characters change, old flames reappear and rivalries heat up, but the underlying...
20.0K - Mar. 20, 2002; scored 594.0 Trustees like $150 parcel taxERIN WALDNER / Half Moon Bay Review / June 10, 1999 Cabrillo Board of Education trustees believe the school district should move forward with a $150 parcel tax to raise revenue for the school district, a straw poll of the board revealed last week. At a special meeting of the board on Thursday...
8.4K - Jun. 10, 1999; scored 554.0 Current council is getting things done It will take about four rebuttal letters to address the misstatements, misinformation, misrepresentations and faulty legal premises presented in the Matter of Opinion written by Ken Jones and Jim Larimer (Review, June 22). This recent letter-writing ...
3.3K - Jul. 1, 2005; scored 474.0 Taylor, Fraser still lead the money race City Council candidates Toni Taylor and Marina Fraser continue to lead the fund-raising race with only a week to go before the election. As of Oct. 24, Fraser, a Parks and Recreation commissioner, had pulled in $5,593 and Taylor, an incumben...
3.2K - Oct. 31, 2001; scored 471.0 Time to remove the orange fence at reserve Jones, Larimer are out of step with the community Dear editor: I opened my June 22 copy of the Review and found another Ken Jones and Jim Larimer piece, and immediately felt a warm glow. I admire folks that never give up, even if I don't agree with t...
2.0K - Jul. 6, 2005; scored 460.0 The questions Ken Jones didn't ask In a recent Matter of Opinion column, school board President Ken Jones carefully posed his own questions and answers in what is the typical pro-development approach to obscure the real issues on Wavecrest Village, the yet to be built middle school an...
5.3K - Feb. 20, 2002; scored 445.0 Reader defends City Council Many inaccurate accusations have been leveled against our elected officials and so-called "obstructionists" over recent months. I'd like to supplement some of this misdirected frustration and anger with actual facts. Our current City Council had noth...
4.7K - Apr. 28, 2004; scored 445.0 Jones, Larimer are out of step with the community Dear editor: I opened my June 22 copy of the Review and found another Ken Jones and Jim Larimer piece, and immediately felt a warm glow. I admire folks that never give up, even if I don't agree with them. Keeps life interesting. Years ago Mr. Jones w...
1.9K - Jul. 8, 2005; scored 431.0 Larimer and Jones are part of problem Dear editor: In a recent matter of opinion (Review, Sept. 28), Jim Larimer and Ken Jones spoke of the community's ability and need to build a middle school. For any newcomers to the coast, Jones and Larimer are among the lead proponents of the Wavecr...
1.2K - Nov. 2, 2005; scored 427.0 Larimer and Jones are part of problem Dear editor: In a recent matter of opinion (Review, Sept. 28), Jim Larimer and Ken Jones spoke of the community's ability and need to build a middle school. For any newcomers to the coast, Jones and Larimer are among the lead proponents of the Wavecr...
1.2K - Oct. 19, 2005; scored 427.0 In defense of our school board Vic Abadie's Matter of Opinion article of two weeks ago is a good example of what is wrong with our community's politics. Mr. Abadie has a penchant for verbally attacking school board members and especially Ken Jones. Several years ago, the board cal...
3.3K - May. 26, 2004; scored 413.0 Larimer, Jones just as strident as foes Dear editor: The March 2 Review featured Jim Larimer and Ken Jones' Matter of Opinion with a polished-up version of Larimer's Matter of Opinion column of Feb. 9, which was a rehash from his previous Matter of Opinion three months before that: how far...
1.9K - Mar. 9, 2005; scored 413.0 City does get benefit from Wavecrest deal Dear editor: In response to Ken Jones and Jim Larimer's letter in the Oct 12 Review, I wish to apologize for claiming that they opposed Measures A and D, an inference I mistakenly made because of their ongoing campaign promoting development. They wen...
1.9K - Nov. 2, 2005; scored 380.0 'Let the developers pay' is a familiar scheme Ken Jones and Jim Larimer keep telling us on the editorial page of the Review that we should get developers to fund the infrastructure we need in exchange for letting them build large developments on the coastside. It's an interesting idea that deser...
3.4K - May. 11, 2005; scored 369.0 Larimer, Jones are wrong about use of development here Dear editor: As usual, Ken Jones and Jim Larimer have it all wrong. They would have us believe that we must sell out our community to improve it. Development is not the only means to fix infrastructure. We need not rely on crumbs tossed from the tabl...
1.7K - May. 4, 2005; scored 369.0 Follow the money Although one of the two political action committees that have dominated Coastside politics in recent years has altered the fundraising landscape for the upcoming Nov. 4 election, it hasn't hindered anyone's ability to raise - and spend - money. The 3...
5.8K - Oct. 29, 2003; scored 365.0 PAC founder, donors revealed The secretive political action committee, Citizens for Quality Planning, came late into the election fray, but it has already significantly outspent its competition, laying out $25,630 so far in phone polls and mailings. The group's funds ha...
5.9K - Oct. 31, 2001; scored 347.0 School board received cautious support for parcel tax if expenses spelled outERIN WALDNER / Half Moon Bay Review / June 24, 1999 The Cabrillo Board of Education recently got a glimpse into what the Coastside thinks about paying a parcel tax to generate revenue for the school district. It was a brief look. Aside from one teacher and two parents closely involved in local educati...
5.2K - Jun. 24, 1999; scored 318.0 |