Caltrain may be faced with a $30 million deficit. It may be forced to raise fares and eliminate service too, but its CEO is the highest paid of the 23 Bay Area transit operators’ CEOs. Mike Scanlon, a 44-year veteran of the railroad, earns just over $400,000 per year.
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City Budget Director Jennifer Maguire will have some bad news for City Council today. When voters approved Measure K earlier this year, they had hoped that expanding gambling activity in San Jose would increase revenue to the city by at least $5 million. Now the first figures are in, and the city was off by about $4 million.
Google executive Wael Ghonim was released from prison Monday night, after holding a meeting with Egypt’s new Interior Minister Mahmoud Wagdy. He was later interviewed on Egyptian television, and said that he was treated well while in detention. According to his latest tweet, he is heading to Tahrir Square to participate in today’s protests.
Police are worried after a gun collection valued at $2 million was robbed from a Gilroy man’s home. The invaders broke into his house, tied him up, and managed to get access to the collection. They beat him up severely and took off with the guns and truck. Police are still investigating the incident, but consider the robbers armed and dangerous.
Two controversial new apps for the iPhone and iPad are making headlines. One helps you smuggle immigrants over the border. The other helps you confess to doing that. According to its creator, the confessional app is intended, “to invite Catholics to engage in their faith through digital technology,” in keeping with a recent pronouncement by the Pope about the benefits of technology. “If used wisely.”
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The Bay Area’s own Lavay Smith is a modern day chanteuse. She performs with her band at the Sunnyvale Theatre on Feb. 12.
It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then a local kid accomplishes his dreams and reaches the pinnacle of his profession. For James Jones, a Gunderson High and San Jose State graduate, that moment came Sunday in Arlington, Texas. Jones, a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, had five catches for 50 yards in a 31-25 Super Bowl XLV victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
While it would seem college hockey players and beer would be a match made in Labatt Blue Heaven, San Jose State’s club hockey team is in crisis mode. The entire team was suspended from play this past week following accusations of student-athletes drinking during or after team events as well as possible hazing.
Ronald Harwood’s “The Dresser,” now at San Jose Rep, focuses tightly on these two: the fast-failing Sir, played by an alternately stentorian or whimpering Ken Ruta, himself a theater legend of considerable proportions, and his longtime dresser, Norman, drawn with brilliant nuance by James Carpenter.
