Everyone Loses in De Anza Rape Case
A jury in the civil suit of the De Anza rape case rules in favor of the defendants, ending an ugly saga where everyone came out looking bad. Except, surprisingly, former DA Dolores Carr.
Obama Releases Birth Certificate
Turns out he’s actually Ukrainian.
Hands at 10 and 2
Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) attempts to raise fines for drivers who text while driving from $20 to $50 for a first offense and add a point on the record of drivers with more than one cell-phone violation.
Feds Whiff on Nailing Home-Run King
Barry Bonds convicted of obstruction of justice (waste of time and money because of mistrial on perjury charges … no retrial set yet). Like most big sports stories, this has nothing to do with sports at all.
History Revisited
A bill sponsored by Sen. Mark Leno would require California teachers to add the history of gays, lesbians and transgender people to the public-school curricula. Republicans and evangelicals fume loudly—you know, for the children.
RDA Gutted
On April 6, the San Jose Redevelopment Agency, reading the writing on Jerry Brown’s wall of budget cuts, lays off over half of its staff.
Double Digits and Not 1 More
San Jose’s City Council arbitrarily decides to trim the city’s 100-plus medical marijuana collectives to 10. The decision is based on no expert analysis of the situation. Ten just sounds like a good round number.
