THIS may sound like petty carping but, what the heck, let's get it out on the table anyway on a long July Fourth weekend.Does it strike anyone else that the mail delivery habits of some of our dedicated U.
THERE'S A tendency out there to focus on the bad news of the day to the point of magnifying it so much that any perspective is quickly lost, if it was ever there at all.
WITHOUT question, it was a surreal scene. There, in a vast parking lot at the San Mateo County Event Center, were hundreds of gleaming, new recreation vehicles.
Lash Stevenson has a special fondness for local history, especially when it involves sports. So it's logical that the San Mateo barber is worried about the future of artifacts from Bay Meadows.
THE pleasant hamlet of Burlingame observed its centennial last weekend with appropriate flourishes. Its annual Art in the Park fest graced the Washington Park area near the downtown Caltrain station and public high school.
BECAUSE most proposed local tax proposals require a two-thirds vote for approval by voters these days (one no vote equals two of the yes variety), it is becoming much easier to get a handle on their potential for success or failure on Election Night almost as soon as the polls close.
TO say the least, the timing of the event was less than helpful for those promoting the idea that city-operated parks and recreation facilities along the Peninsula were in a state of imminent collapse.
JIM WINSLOW has responded to an item in this space recently regarding local Japanese-American students whose education at the College of San Mateo during World War II may have been stymied or adversely affected by internment.
HERE'S a hot flash: Gasoline prices are surging. Yep, that's old and very painful news. But there is a lot more to this sorry tale than meets the eye.In California, consumers of petroleum products at the pump are being double-taxed for the privilege of driving their aging heaps down to the
