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Great news about the Lobero. It's a fantastic venue but really needs updating. I've always felt that the giant exterior wall(s) could use a colorful mural to brighten up its dull facade. I doubt that the "everything is historical!" crowd that controls SB would allow such a thing though. The old folks here seem to prefer to stare at the same thing year after year, decade after decade. To these people, nostalgia = historically significant.

Sam, I totally agree with you. The City has a large staff of engineers and planners. If they are not capable of designing and building the projects we need, they need to be fired. Knowing the City intimately from having worked there for decades, however, it is more a question of lacking leadership among management that fosters an environment of pluggers rather than vision and imagination. The City's planning department is a disgrace. They need to cut some fat at the top and invest in some visionary planners as well as bringing in someone who can facilitate a complete overhaul of the antiquated workflow.

This woman is obviously out of her mind. Irma is one of the sweetest human beings I've ever known.

1200 block of state turning into an amazing block for great food. Arigato’s, Sama Sama, Bibi Ji, the Daisy (haven’t been yet but heard good things) and now the new Mexican seafood place. Good job SB.

Proclaming a place non-bougie kind of makes it bougie...

The residents surrounding Elings should be more concerned about the salaries of the staff and how little is actually spent running the park and enriching the community…

The two kitchen island trend is so weird. It never looks good and always looks like a glitch in the simulation.

Speaking from Austin, TX. We had an invasion of red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) about 50 years ago. They built mounds in lawns and parks all over the city. Now they are no problem, thanks to biological control. And they are not the terrifying plague that the news media makes them out to be. If a colony of them makes a mound in your lawn, bring a Dutch oven full of water to the boil and dump it on them. Don't bother with pesticides.

Stupid question, but will the consultants be paid from the withhold wages of the city stuff who were hired to do that job in first place? Otherwise it‘s a great concept, I should talk to my boss and suggest we hire someone extern do my job so i can focus on other things or just chill a bit ????????????

Erik, thank you for being the only member of the media to point out that the precise location where the scary imported fire ants have been discovered is being withheld from the public. Should I avoid walking my dog on certain trails? Are golfers in danger and, if so, where? What areas should hotel guests, hikers, children avoid?

Oh no. Here we go again. The Chamber of Commerce is the least capable, least effective, most inept org of middle managers around. I suppose there is always the City's staff to outdo them... but it's a close second for the CoC. Nothing they propose or cite is accurate or tenable. They are a cabal of mediocrity. Middle management bureaucrats who showcase the "Peter principle" in real life. Please do not give them any more money, credence or time. These are not creative or entrepreneurial people. They are quite literally, the opposite of those who create and build and forge. Just look at the membership of this org for a view into who makes up the CoC and their actual capabilities. It's insulting that our city staff is so inept that they need to continually hire outside consultants - at the cost of millions a year, to do the very jobs the city staff were hired to do... Where else in society do we promote the least capable and ignore their ineptitude and instead reward them with the highest salaries and the lowest productivity expectations?

I would read Renée Templeraud on the daily if I could! "A witch on wheels with a capital B" - dying.....