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By Don Thompson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO Auniversitystudy released Friday showing howCalifornia counties are spending$4.4 billion to implement Gov.Jerry Brown’s prison realignmentlaw found that nearly 20 percenthave fundamentally changed howthey approach criminal justice.The subsidies to counties areguaranteed as part of the 2-year-oldlaw that is sending lower-leveloffenders to county jails instead of state prisons. The law also leavesit to county probation depart-ments, instead of state paroleagents, to supervise those releasedfrom prison.In passing the law, state law-makers urgedcounty officials toincrease rehabili-tation and treat-ment programsthat could keepmore criminalsout of prisons and jails, although the local govern-ments were given broad discretionin spending the grants.The study by the StanfordCriminal Justice Center compared,among other indicators, incarcera-tion rates, county budgets andfirst-year plans for spending the$4.4 billion allocated to localgovernments by the state expectedthrough the 2016-17 fiscal year. Itoffers the first statistical analysis
Stanford study:San Mateo a ‘postercounty’for ‘more punitive approach’
Approach forprison reformvaries by area
By Angela Swartz
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Anew website is officiallylaunching this Veterans Day toengage the public with veterans’stories, including one of a SanMateo resident.Scott Castle, who graduatedfrom San Mateo High School in2002 and currently lives in SanMateo, served three tours of dutywith the Marine Corps in Iraq andwas one of the first to participatein the nonprofit VeteranDocumentary Corps’veterans filmprojects. His seven-minute filmdocuments how he turned toweightlifting to help cope withpost-traumatic stress disorder.“We all come back with a littlesomething,” Castle said. “Eversince I exited the military I had aclose relationship with theVeterans Association. We allstruggle with it daily, but it’ssomething I am getting treatmentfor.”Run by Daniel Bernardi, directorand professor in the CinemaDepartment at San Francisco StateUniversity and a veteran of the Iraqwar, the site was born out of theidea that most people seemeduninterested in the wars the UnitedStates was engaging in for adecade. Filming for Castle’s videotook place last year.“I came to the conclusion thatwe were eroding our democracy by
New website tells war vets’stories
San Mateo resident and Iraq War veteran participants in project
SILVIA TURCHIN
Iraq War veteran Scott Castle of San Mateo participated in a film projectabout coping with post-traumatic stress disorder.He lifts weights.
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 Terra Novas Jaylend Jones leaps high for a first-quarter touchdown during the Tigers’29-15 win over SacredHeart Prep,which clinched Terra Nova’s fifth-straight PAL Bay Division championship.
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Redwood City is holding two workshopsto let the public see firsthand how the devel-opment plan for Pete’s Harbor has signifi-cantly changed between its first controver-sial submission and the latest design call-ing for 411 units and a commercial marinaat the former floating community.The current proposal, submitted in July2013, includes the residential units andassociated parking, some open space andamenities including a spur of the Bay Trailand a commercial marina accommodating upto 65 boats.Developer Paul Powers had planned tomaintain an outer marina of about 150 slipsbut the revised design calls for 65 available
Input sought on updated Pete’s Harbor plan
By Angela Swartz
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
Election Day results which showedRicardo Ortiz with 10 more votes than RussCohen for the third and final slot on theBurlingame City Council have been updatedand now show Cohen with 17 more votesthan Ortiz. Meanwhile, another close race, for thethird and final slot on the Belmont-RedwoodShores Elementary School District Board of 
Burlingame council results flip
Russ Cohen now ahead of Ricardo Ortiz for third openseat,provisional ballot counts not final until next week 
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Rapper Pepa is 44.
This Day in HistoryThought for the Day
1938
Nazis looted and burned synagoguesas well as Jewish-owned stores andhouses in Germany and Austria in apogrom that became known as“Kristallnacht.”
“All life is an experiment.” 
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior,U.S.Supreme Court justice (1841-1935)
Actor Lou Ferrignois 62.Singer Nick Lacheyis 40.
Birthdays
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AS Monaco's Lucas Ocampos (R) fights for the ball with Evian Thonon Gaillard's Youssouf Sabaly during their French Ligue1 soccer match at Louis stadium in Monaco.
Saturday
: Partly cloudy in the morningthen becoming sunny. Highs in the lower60s. South winds 5 to 15 mph.
Saturday night
: Mostly clear in theevening then becoming partly cloudy.Patchy fog. Lows in the upper 40s. Southwinds 5 to 15 mph.
Sunday
: Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog inthe morning. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 5 to 10mph.
Sunday night:
Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Veterans Day
: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.Monday night and tuesday...Mostly cloudy. Lows in theupper 40s. Highs around 60.
Tuesday night and Wednesday:
Partly cloudy.
Local Weather Forecast
In 1620, 
the passengers and crew of the Mayflower sight-ed Cape Cod.
In 1872
, fire destroyed nearly 800 buildings in Boston.
In 1918, 
it was announced that Germany’s Kaiser WilhelmII would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands.
In 1952
, Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel,died.
In 1953
, Welsh author-poet Dylan Thomas died in NewYork at age 39.
In 1961, 
U.S. Air Force Maj. Robert M. White became thefirst pilot to fly an X-15 rocket plane at six times the speedof sound. The Beatles’future manager, Brian Epstein, firstsaw the group perform at The Cavern Club in Liverpool,England.
In 1963
, twin disasters struck Japan as some 450 minerswere killed in a coal-dust explosion, and about 160 peopledied in a train crash.
In 1965
, the great Northeast blackout occurred as a seriesof power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours left 30 millionpeople in seven states and part of Canada without electrici-ty.
In 1967, 
a Saturn Vrocket carrying an unmanned Apollospacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successfultest flight.
In 1970
, former French President Charles de Gaulle died atage 79.
In 1976, 
the U.N. General Assembly approved resolutionscondemning apartheid in South Africa, including one char-acterizing the white-ruled government as “illegitimate.”
In 1989
, communist East Germany threw open its borders,allowing citizens to travel freely to the West; joyousGermans danced atop the Berlin Wall.
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innamon, chili powder and sea-soned salt are the seasoningsmost frequently found inAmerican homes.***The actual length of a year is 365.242days. That’s why leap years are neces-sary. Leap years occur every fouryears, in years that are evenly divisi-ble by four.***It takes about one minute for the bloodto complete its journey through thebody.***One out of three people can’t snaptheir fingers.***The word sewer means seaward. Theword literally comes from the old prac-tice of open ditches in London leadingto the River Thames, and then into thesea.***The only real people ever to be depictedas Pez dispensers have been Betsy Ross(1752-1836), Daniel Boone (1734-1820) and Paul Revere (1735-1818).***The names of some cities in the UnitedStates are the names of other U.S.states. There is Nevada in Missouri,Wyoming in Ohio, Oregon inWisconsin, Kansas in Oklahoma,Michigan in North Dakota.***Can you name the presidents onMount Rushmore? Do you know whatstate the monument is in? See answerat end.***“Popeye the Sailor” debuted in 1933.Spinach consumption increased 33percent that year.***The San Francisco cable cars are theonly mobile national monuments.***Subbookkeeper is the only word withfour pairs of double letters in a row.***The number of U.S. residents who areof Irish ancestry is 33.7 million. Thisnumber is almost nine times the popu-lation of Ireland itself, which is 3.8million.***At birth, a panda is smaller than amouse and weighs about 4 ounces.***Ababy bat is called a pup.***Hawaii is made up of 137 islands, onlyseven of which are inhabited.***Kraft introduced Cheez Whiz, an all-purpose cheese sauce, in 1952.***Jules Leotard (1842-1870) inventedthe flying trapeze in 1859. He alsoinvented the close-fitting costume thatstill bears his name.***The raising of silkworms is called ser-iculture and began in China about2000 B.C. China produces 70 percentof the world’s silk supply.***There are at least two words that con-tain all the vowels in order: facetiousand abstemious. There are at least fourwords that contain all the vowels inreverse order: uncomplimentary,unproprietary, unoriental and subcon-tinental.***Agatha Christie’s (1890-1976) char-acter Miss Marple is one of the mostfamous and copied detectives of alltime. Miss Marple’s first name is Jane.The last Miss Marple book was“Sleeping Murder,” published in1976.***
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: The presidents carved into Mount Rushmore are GeorgeWashington (1732-1799), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) and Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). Mount  Rushmore is in South Dakota and isoften called “The Shrine of  Democracy.”
Know It All is by Kerry McArdle. It runs inthe weekend and Wednesday editions of theDaily Journal. Questions? Comments?Email knowitall(at)smdailyjournal.comor
(Answers Monday)OMEGATRICK ACQUITHANGARYesterday’sJumbles:Answer:The cooks at the new breakfast restaurantwere ready to — GETCRACKINGNow arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, assuggested by the above cartoon.
THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
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Baseball Hall of Famer Whitey Herzog is 82. Baseball Hallof Famer Bob Gibson is 78. Actor Charlie Robinson is 68.Movie director Bille August is 65. Actor Robert David Hall is65. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, is 61. Gospel singer DonnieMcClurkin is 54. Rock musician Dee Plakas (L7) is 53.Actress Ion Overman is 44. Rapper Scarface (Geto Boys) is43. Blues singer Susan Tedeschi is 43. Actor Jason Antoon is42. Actor Eric Dane is 41. Country singer Corey Smith is 34.Actress Nikki Blonsky is 25. Actress-model Analeigh Tiptonis 25.
Lotto
 The Daily Derby race winners are Luck Charms,No.12,in first place;Whirl Win,No.6,in secondplace;and Lucky Star,No.2,in third place.Therace time was clocked at 1:49.53.
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Burglary
. Two people attempted to burglar-ize the CVS/pharmacy on the 4200 block of South El Camino real before 8:48 p.m. onWednesday, Nov. 6.
Accident.
No major injuries were reportedafter a person was hit by a vehicle on East40th Avenue before 5:05 p.m. onWednesday, Nov. 6.
Vehicle theft.
Ared Prius was stolen onSecond Avenue before 12:49 p.m. onWednesday, Nov. 6.
Burglary
. Aperson broke into a whiteMercedes and threatened the car owner on the500 block of Santa Inez Avenue before 7:16p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4.
Burlingame
Suspicious activity
. Aman reportedlypunched a hole in the wall of a bar onBurlingame Avenue and El Camino Realbefore 11:44 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 31.
Lost child.
Police helped to reunite a lostchild with her parents on Broadway andCabrillo Avenue before 7:15 p.m. onThursday, Oct. 31.
Fire
. Police responded to reports of fire anddiscovered that it was theatrical smokebeing used for Halloween on the 1500 blockof Cypress Avenue before 5:24 p.m. onThursday, Oct. 31.
Police reports
Until the fat lady sang
Acomplaint was reported about loudopera singing on the 1400 block of Floribunda Avenue in Burlingamebefore 10:44 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct.30.
By Michelle Durand
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
The intoxicated driver accused of killing aMenlo Park couple walking their dog andcrashing into a car of teenagers before hit-ting a tree is back in the hospital herself which is delaying a plea in the fatal crash.Marjorie Ann Reitzell, 54, was due backin court a second time on Thursday but didnot appear. On Friday, District AttorneySteve Wagstaffe said the Redwood Citywoman was not medically cleared for thatday’s afternoon appearance. It was notimmediately clear if Reitzell was beingtreated for reported chest pains which is thereason she was not arraigned for severaldays after the crash. Her family has also saidpublicly she has pneumonia. She finallyappeared on Tuesday but did not enter a pleato two counts of gross vehicular manslaugh-ter and two felony counts of driving whileunder the influence caus-ing injury. Prosecutors are reserv-ing the right to increasethe charges to murder if they feel it warranted.Reitzell has a long histo-ry of criminal convic-tions, including severaldrug-related, and a priormisdemeanor convictionof driving while under theinfluence from last November. She was onprobation for that crime when she allegedlycaused the death of Balbir and Kamal Singh,50 and 45 respectively, just before 7 p.m.Oct. 24 as they walked their dog on ChilcoStreet. Reitzell, who is on probation for a2012 DUI conviction, reportedly struck thecouple from behind as they walked on thepaved shoulder before going over a centerdivider and hitting the second car head-onthen coming to rest against a tree. The cou-ple died at the scene and their Chihuahua wasinjured but survived. The four teenagers inthe second car had minor injuries.Prosecutors have not released a specificblood alcohol level for Reitzell butWagstaffe it was “significantly more thantwice the legal limit” and she had beendrinking heavily all day before climbingbehind the wheel.Defense attorney Richard Keyes did notreturn a call for comment on his client’scase and medical condition.Meanwhile, Menlo Park police are search-ing for a white man driving a white FordExplorer that night who may have wit-nessed the incident. Anyone with information is asked to con-tact Sgt. Sharon Kaufman at 330-6343.
michelle@smdailyjournal.com(650) 344-5200 ext. 102
Alleged double-fatal DUI driver back in hospital
Marjorie Reitzell
By Juliet Williams
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO — Attorneys for theCalifornia High-Speed Rail Authorityargued Friday that Central Valley residentswho sued the state over its bullet train planhave no grounds to stop the project, despitea judge’s ruling that the state violated thepromises made to voters in a 2008 ballotproposition.Instead, it would be up to the stateLegislature to step in if lawmakers believedthe $68 billion funding plan does not com-ply with Proposition 1A, which authorized$10 billion in high-speed rail bonds,Deputy Attorney General Michele Inan said.“The taxpayers are represented throughthe legislative process,” Inan toldSacramento County Superior Court JudgeMichael Kenny.Kenny ruled in August that the rail author-ity “abused its discretion by approving afunding plan that did not comply with therequirements of the law.” He further said ithad failed to identify “sources of funds thatwere more than merely theoretically possi-ble.”Still, Inan argued that since theLegislature approved spending the moneyto get started on high-speed rail, only theLegislature can undo it or ask for an updatedfunding plan. The 2008 proposition required the railauthority to specify the source of the fund-ing for the first operable segment of thehigh-speed rail line and have all the neces-sary environmental clearances in place.Kenny said in his previous ruling that theagency did not comply with either of thosemandates, but Proposition 1Aappears toleave it up to lawmakers to decide whetherthe plan is sufficient to warrant funding.Friday’s hearing was held for the judge toconsider what penalty, if any, he shouldimpose for the rail authority’s failure tocomply with the ballot initiative in its ini-tial funding plan. The rail authority arguesthat the judge’s ruling was based on an oldfunding plan that has since been revised.Attorneys for affected landowners who aresuing the state have asked Kenny to rescindconstruction contracts, including a $1 bil-lion deal signed this fall, or prevent thestate from spending any more of the voter-approved bonds.
Judge weighs penalty for $68B high-speed rail plan

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