Comments on: Greg Jones: Keep gang injunctions as priority

By: Qodrn

Qodrn — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:55:08 +0000

Its always bad when donut shops close. I would like to recommend World of Donuts and the Donut Factory as great alternatives. In the same area, the donuts at Lucky’s are not too bad either; after 3:00 pm, you can get a dozen at a great price.

By: Michael Moore

Michael Moore — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:22:40 +0000

I have been wondering why Greg Jones is back in public and well I will be slapped, I forgot that he was a realtor and is trying to drum up his business. Go get them Greg. I am not sure where realtors rank on the public trust index. They are likely closely trusted as much as bankers, lawyers and politicians.

By: Qodrn

Qodrn — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:23:23 +0000

Expensive car took out phone pole on Mission near Harder. If your power is out, now you know why.
Hope the people in the car are okay. A prayer would not be amiss here.

By: Teresa Conti

Teresa Conti — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:18:23 +0000

Okay folks, we are on the second body this week in the Hayward area. Keep your people close and safe.

Good heavens.

By: Lissa Taylor

Lissa Taylor — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:11:15 +0000

Message delivered and by the by I just blocked someone on my Twitter account. Amber will contact you.

By: Eric Kurhi

Eric Kurhi — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:05:20 +0000

Can’t block someone on Twitter. Tell her to take the matter up with me and we’ll get to the bottom of it, here or on email or Twitter or facebook or by phone. I am not hard to reach. Tell her to come by the office and talk to me!

By: Lissa Taylor

Lissa Taylor — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:14:23 +0000

Amen Michael Moore!,,,,,

By: Michael Moore

Michael Moore — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:22:29 +0000

We cannot continue to request services which we cannot afford to pay for. Schools, Police, Fire and Local Government are not now affordable and are not getting any cheaper. We need to hold incumbents accountable for the failures of their action and to demand more than just average performance from those who serve the public.

Gangs will disappear as soon as the neighborhood refutes them and drives them out. That will not happen until the infrastructure of government rewards good citizenship and stewardship and relocates those that are not here to be a contributing part of the local community.

By: Sherry Blair

Sherry Blair — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:16:26 +0000

First of all, welcome back Eric! The Hayword has suffered during your absence.

I have been thinking lately about this being an election year and time for our community to wake up and make some intelligent choices about who we want to lead our city. We have to truly occupy the ballot box if we are going to preserve our democracy.

I had a conversation only a few days ago about who might run for office and Greg Jones’s name came up. I don’t know him, but I have heard some really good things about him and his tenure as our city manager.

Now that I read his letter I find myself disagreeing with him on the issue of city priorities!

He says that we shouldn’t water down saftey and cleanliness with “greening.” My own view is that what I would call the “greening” of Hayward not just one issue to be put into competition on an equal footing with safety and cleanliness. It is descriptive of the natural evolutionary change that is occuring on a global scale in the world today. Hayward cannot and must not escape it. On the contrary, we need to become more conscious and cooperative if we are going to create a sustainable future. This is the overriding issue of our day.

Once this is seen, everything else fits into that larger vision in right relationship.

We cannot go back to 2007 priorities. Too much has happened since then (2009 for instance.) I too voted for the utility tax, but it wasn’t about old priorites, it was an emergency. We have to think 2012 now.

By: Lissa Taylor

Lissa Taylor — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:00:14 +0000

Parents need to know that schools will hold on to your kids wanted or not until the first Wednesday in October, (CBEDS) the census date, once they get credit for your child occupying a seat they kick them out. A student may be 20 credits short for graduation, if they are not a trouble maker the high school will keep them knowing they won’t graduate. Instead the schools, send students they don’t want or have 5 or 10 credits to the continuation high school to take up the spaces so a student who could have graduated is sitting at home without a diploma because of 10 credits. Who takes the hit for dropouts? Not the referring school. Check the data don’t take my word for it.
I sat in a meeting face to face with George Bullis, Principal at Hayward High. He said, “Lets send all the kids with low test scores to one school so all the schools don’t look bad and our test scores will go up.” Chien was sitting in this meeting and did nothing, when I left the district, Chien did just what George wanted. Parent don’t know that a principal does not have the power to kick a student out,or tell the parent to keep the student at home. Principals only have the power to “recommend” expulsion and even then the school has to prove their case. Parents what you don’t know is hurting your child. Start demanding that the Board of Education ask more questions of Chien like they did in the last Board meeting.