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When I watched this Council study session discussion last Monday, I heard the usual misleading, but technically correct comments about an increase in sales tax, the most regressive tax there is. Especially from Danielle C-G. She made the same point that Terence made here, "sales tax is [n…

People who talk about embarrassment ignore the fact that the council needs to pick a fifth member in less than a week. And that if that gets stalled, the Mayor wil pick that person, singlehandedly. Talk about an embarrassing lack of democracy.

Those who resist appointing a mayor thi…

I think most responders have it right. What does "choice" have to do with quaifications to represent District 5 on the San Mateo City Council? As for the effects on higher political ambitions, I think voters wil be smart enough to evaluate those if and when any candidate runs for some "hi…

Just to be historically accurate, Founding Father Ben Franklin is not the inspiration for the name of the hotel. Quoting a Daily Journal article from 2001, "The hotel does not bear the name of the famous stateman from Philadelphia, but rather a amalgamation of its original owners, A.C. Fr…