Ephesus Turkish cuisine WEEKEND | P.15 APRIL 22, 2011 VOLUME 19, NO. 15 INSIDE: MOVIES | PAGE 19 650.964.6300 MountainViewOnline.com Council considers major new goals, projects By Daniel DeBolt Street,” said council member Ronit Bryant. he City Council looked at Bryant suggested that the city a slew of new goals and city might have to close off Castro Street Tprojects in a study session and direct cross-town traffic onto Tuesday, April 19, including a re- Shoreline Boulevard. examination of the train crossing at Council member Mike Kasper- Castro Street in light of recent news. zak could not attend the meeting, On Monday U.S. Rep. Anna but said in an email, “I don’t think Eshoo (D-Palo Alto), state Sen. you can realistically grade separate Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) and Caltrain and Castro Street” because state Assemblyman Rich Gordon of engineering and financial issues. (D-Menlo Park) proposed that the “We need to realistically look at state’s high-speed rail line share closing Castro Street” and build a Caltrain’s rail line instead of build- grade-separated pedestrian cross- ing an additional two tracks. (See ing across Central Expressway. story, this page.) “You would have to go down to The city has spent considerable Shoreline Boulevard and come time and money studying what the around, which businesses prob- four-track plan would do to Castro ably wouldn’t like,” Kasperzak Street and the city’s downtown, but NICK GONZALES said. “But I think people will get A crowd armed with signs and slogans marched at the Google campus to protest corporate tax breaks. this latest proposal needs further used to getting there when that’s examination, council members what you want to do.” said. Some believe that the plan Kasperzak said that Evelyn may require that the city close Cas- Avenue could be modified for Tax day protest at Google tro Street. High-speed rail money heavier traffic flow to and from may not be available for grade- Shoreline Boulevard, especially EVENT ORGANIZED BY MOVEON.ORG HAS PEOPLE CALLING separated crossings. if the Castro Street median is no “To me it seems critical that FOR CORPORATIONS TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE we have a city position on Castro See COUNCIL, page 8 By Nick Veronin Fueled in part by an email claimed Google owed trillions that was penned by Michael of dollars), they all seemed Merge high-speed rail with s Americans across the Moore and sent to all MoveOn certain that Google and other country scrambled to members, the protestors at major companies very often get improved Caltrain, legislators urge mail off their W-2 and Google came from cities all out of paying taxes by engag- A By Gennady Sheyner 1099 tax forms on Monday, around the Bay Area to accuse ing in tricky money-shuffling on April 18 at the Menlo Park Cal- April 18, a crowd of more than Google of dodging what it owes overseas, by retaining an army of and Jocelyn Dong train station. The three legislators 75 gathered in the muggy driz- the federal government, and lawyers and by cozying up to the described the “blended” system zle at the Googleplex to demand demand that it pay more taxes. government through lobbyists. aying that government fund- of high-speed-rail and Caltrain as that the search giant pay its fair Len Fisher, another MoveOn Google had no official comment ing for California’s High- the best way to save money, pro- share to Uncle Sam. member, came from Saratoga on the protest, but according to SSpeed Rail program will be tect Peninsula communities from The protestors carried signs to protest. He said that he pays a Bloomberg article published “severely limited ... for the foresee- unnecessary construction and to and marched from a far-flung quite a bit in taxes and is happy in October of last year, the com- able future,” local federal and state ensure the continued viability of corner of the campus near to do so. “I think it’s the duty of pany does move its money around representatives are calling upon Caltrain, which is facing a financial Highway 101 almost to the any citizen to pay taxes,” Fisher overseas in order to garner lower the California High-Speed Rail crisis. headquarters building, occa- said. “I think we owe it to our corporate tax rates — a strategy Authority to essentially link the Eshoo, Simitian and Gordon said sionally chanting slogans, such society.” that got one protester particularly high-speed rail route from Los California’s high-speed-rail plans as: “Don’t cut Medicare/cut Although Fisher and oth- riled up. Angeles with an improved and should include what they called a corporate welfare!” ers at the protest didn’t seem Paul Buffalo Labont, who electrified Caltrain system running “21st Century Caltrain” -- a defini- The demonstration was just to have an entirely clear idea addressed the crowd with a char- from San Jose to San Francisco. tion that includes electrification, one of many organized across about how much Google paid in ismatic southern drawl and force- U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Palo positive train controls and new the country by the progres- taxes this year, and some threw ful, pro-labor rhetoric said he had Alto), state Sen. Joe Simitian rolling stock. sive political group MoveOn. out enormously high numbers no patience for corporations that (D-Palo Alto) and state Assem- Simitian called Monday’s org. 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