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Turn Back Your Clocks Tonight Foster City!

It happens every year and tonight is the night. Turn back all of your clocks before you go to bed. The good deal on doing that before bed is you’ll get an extra hour of sleep and will know what time it really is when you wake up. If you forget to do this, you’ll be confused about the time. So, don’t forget to do [...]

San Mateo County Launches a Citizen’s On-Line Forum

Here’s an Opportunity for San Mateo County Residents to Voice an Opinion on the Call for a  State Constitutional Convention

As California’s budget crisis deepens, a new on-line forum offers San Mateo County residents the opportunity to voice their opinion about a proposal to convene a constitutional convention to overhaul state government.

The new on-line service, called [...]

Come to the San Mateo Highlands Rec Center Friday or Saturday and Help Save a Life.

San Mateo, STOP what you have planned this coming weekend because we need your help to save a life.  It’s simple, only takes a few minutes, and if you are the lucky one to be a match, you will know you have saved the life of  someone in the US through a bone marrow transplant. [...]

Foster City, San Mateo – This is an Anniversary You Should Remember

One hundred and three years ago, at 5:15 AM on April 18th, Northern California shook awake rudely.  The Great Quake of San Francisco roared her ugly head and nothing was to remain the same after that morning.  Fire was the big evil.  Funny, but fire was the big evil in 1989 when the Loma Prieta [...]

Burlingame, San Mateo & Foster City Mom’s To-Be Here’s Something For You Tonight

My client, Tracy Stettner, is a certified Doula.  If you are pregnant and thinking about using a Doula for your delivery come to a Meet The Doula Night tonight in San Mateo.

Here are the top 5 reasons why you should come to the “Meet the Doula Night” this evening.

1.  Learn what a Doula does & [...]

Foster City – Take a Few Minutes and Listen to This. You’ll Learn Something, I Promise

One of my colleagues stopped by this morning and said he’s just heard a speech by Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan/Chase about the role of banking.  It’s changed and he urged me to take a little time and listen to this speech because Dimon was speaking some amazing truths for all of us to [...]

Foster City Market Report – February 2009

Foster City Single Family Home Market Report

Last week the Median Price for a home for sale in Foster City was $1,190,000.  The Average Price was $1,213,067.  There were 25 homes for sale last week and only 3 were “absorbed” – meaning they were either sold, expired, withdrawn or canceled.  The best buy, and [...]

Career Closet and the San Francisco 49ers Partner to Help the Women of San Mateo County!

I begin this by saying I’m on the Board of Directors of the Career Closet, an organization of Women Helping Women in need.  We serve San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties by dressing women re-entering, or many times entering for the first time,  the work world with a week of clothing appropriate for a new [...]

Burlingame Has Too Much of a Good Thing! Elementary School Aged Children.

Back in 1989, when school populations were declining, the Burlingame School district closed Hoover School.  This was a time when many school districts were closing schools due to declining enrollment.  I remember years ago, when my children were young sitting at a coffee with a school superintendent who was convinced that the school population was [...]

What’s Up With The San Mateo Area Weather?

Fog Rolling In Over the Hills

What’s up with the summer weather around here?

People visiting our area for the first time during the summer are often surprised at finding cold weather.  “What’s up with the weather around here?” they ask.  Oh, The Fog? It’s 60 degrees!  It’s the middle of summer!   Cold winds!  Burr!  Welcome to [...]