Russ and I wish all you intrepid Voice readers a very happy New Year. During the course of 2018 we surpassed one million views, approached the 5,000 post milestone (4,790 to be exact) and almost 30,000 comments have been added over the last 15 years. The themes have stayed consistent and will continue on in 2019 because, well, the issues pretty much stay the same.
For starters, as outgoing mayor Michael Brownrigg said during his speech at the council rotation, we have to guard against "asphyxiating on our success". I'm as worried about dehydrating from our success as asphyxiating, but that is a topic for another post or two...or three. At one holiday party this past week, I had a chat with a long time Silicon Valley exec who does not pay much attention to local politics--he's focused on growing his latest start-up. As I described the prevailing politicians' view that we can build our way out of the "housing crisis" he looked at me like I was joking. "Don't they understand that the more they build, the more we will build?" The we is the biotech, information tech and whatever-is-next tech industry. I told him "no".
You can peruse the right hand frame of this page to see all of the categories of interest. Locals bemoan the quality of our local restaurants, but I think they are improving...slowly. And maybe there will be some improvement in SFO runway noise as it garners more attention. At last night's NYE party, without any prompting from me, five B'gamers just ripped the new roundabout. And I could not agree more with two of the Daily Journal's Jon Mays New Year's resolutions:
- Perhaps someone can build something that actually improves traffic with the increase in bridge tolls and sales tax for transportation. Perhaps there could be some paving work done on El Camino Real with our gas tax revenue as well.
- If you are a politician advocating for mass transit, take it semi-regularly, not just on occasion.
I'm hoping for more Best of Burlingame postings about locals who add to our quality of life and here's hoping for some developments that move us in that direction--like getting Top Golf going on the bayfront and hearing more live music on B'way and the Avenew. I'm working on the live music dream myself, so if you know of any venues (mostly restaurants) that might be interesting in hosting, please let me know. Have a safe and happy 2019.
"Asphyxiating from our success?" Seriously, did he just inhale some laughing gas right before saying that?
WAY too much hubris, self-indulgence and self-felicitations....and all for what, exactly? As Joe alluded to, there is a lot not to be proud of, quite frankly.
Way Over-The-Top, and that's coming from me, Bruce Dickinson!
On a more positive note, Happy New Year!
Posted by: Bruce Dickinson | January 01, 2019 at 06:58 PM
He was fretting about all the development but his answer is more development. Kinda sad actually.
Posted by: resident | January 02, 2019 at 11:00 PM
Good dining. I thought TopGolf was pulling out is what I heard from another TopGolf out East.
Posted by: GoodFood | January 31, 2019 at 05:36 PM
nice post
Posted by: black satta | March 05, 2019 at 06:58 AM