A day after this editorial ran in the newspaper, I got a call from Paul Cole, assistant chief of the Coastside Fire Protection District. He has a different perspective on this incident and, importantly, contradicts Ioannis Kanellakopoulos's account of what happened after firefighters entered…
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
The call came into dispatch on June 16, 2017. A Coastside woman was worried about her mother living in Ocean Colony. The elderly woman wasn’t answering the phone. Perhaps she had a m…
Wednesday, May 09, 2018
The Cabrillo Unified School District is asking you to approve a $99 million bond that will raise annual property taxes by hundreds of dollars for the next 30 years. It’s a lot to ask…
Wednesday, May 02, 2018
Coastside Gives. There likely has never been a local initiative with a more appropriate name.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
For Coastsiders, there is no more important government office than the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors District 3 seat. The winner will decide where the rubber meets the road o…
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Public officials on the coast and elsewhere often say they want to hear from members of the minority community. The Half Moon Bay City Council deserves credit for actually doing so. …
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Last week, the California Highway Patrol told us it had completed its six-month investigation into the death of a Burlingame man who was struck and killed as he crossed Highway 1 on …
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
Many of our best stories deal with the history of this place. That is certainly true again this week.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
The Federal Aviation Administration says its NextGen modernization of the nation’s air traffic control system saves six minutes of taxi time during bad weather and that 62,345,728 pa…
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Cunha Intermediate School Principal Seth Feldman and Cabrillo Unified School District Superintendent Jane Yuster watched from a small rise as the majority of the Cunha student body m…
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Ask Half Moon Bay residents about the state of their local roads and stand back. They are not shy with their opinions, as we found last week when we asked our Facebook friends to rec…
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Students lead way toward improved school safety
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
When we saw a draft of a new Stanford study that listed Cabrillo Unified schools among the districts with the worst achievement gaps in the nation, we were shocked. So, we resolved t…
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Three months ago, on the front page of this newspaper, we detailed San Mateo County Harbor Commissioner Sabrina Brennan’s allegations of sexual harassment against her colleague, Tom …
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Last week, the comedian Jordan Klepper spoke about his television program, “The Opposition,” on a nationally syndicated radio show. It isn’t worth mentioning here except for what he …
Wednesday, February 07, 2018
Lost in the acronyms, the sloganeering, the talk of walling some in and others out, and the endless fake populism of the “bad hombre” currently occupying the White House are people l…