Posts Tagged ‘redevelopment’Hemet abuses redevelopmentMonday, May 6th, 2013 May 6, 2013 By Nick Sibilla Carina Alvarez has a dream for a comfortable retirement. But it’s turning into a bureaucratic nightmare. Carina bought a four-plex on Mobley Lane in Hemet for $170,000 back in 2010 as an investment. She then spent $60,000 overhauling the property. She rep... Sacramento arena: A ‘Field of Schemes’Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 March 27, 2013 By Katy Grimes Sacramento officials have lost all ability to reason, and instead are letting emotions and delusions of grandeur drive their decision over a downtown sports arena. Arenas are nothing more that fields of schemes, and the joke is on taxpayers. And Sacramento... The radical roots of Jerry Brown’s school finance reform planFriday, March 22nd, 2013 March 22, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi California Gov. Jerry Brown’s recently proposed radical public school financing reform –- the so-called “Local Control Funding Formula” –- reflects the Catholic Jesuit social doctrine of 1968 called “the preferential option for the poor.” But t... Redevelopment fallout: Lawmakers impose big new taxesTuesday, March 5th, 2013 March 5, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- SB 391 is the California Stamp Act. The original Stamp Act was imposed in 1765 and helped spark the American Revolution against British tyranny. According to History.org, "The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a... 10 predictions for California 2013Sunday, December 30th, 2012Dec. 30, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO -- California’ Democratic leaders are giddy about the future now that they have gained everything they wanted in the last election -- voter-approved tax increases and a two-thirds supermajority in both houses of the Legislature, thus rendering Re... 75 new CA laws signed by Gov. BrownSunday, September 23rd, 2012Sept. 22, 2012 By Katy Grimes Gov. Jerry Brown was busy last week, signing some of the 700 bills on his desk into law. He also made a few vetoes--eight to be exact. Just what California needs--more laws. 75 new laws Here's a listing of the bills, signed into law, taken directly from t... Prop 13 survives another neuteringWednesday, September 5th, 2012 Sept. 5, 2012 Katy Grimes: Without fanfare, or headlines, the latest attempt to neuter Proposition 13 failed to pass the Assembly. Property owners probably don't know how close it was. 43 Democrats voted in favor of of removing the required two-thirds vote threshold to be able to pass tax... Controller Chiang pounds California municipalitiesWednesday, August 29th, 2012Aug. 29, 2012 By Chriss Street California State Controller John Chiang announced that the cities of Milpitas and Morgan Hill illegally tried to convert hundreds of millions of dollars of real estate, cash and investments that were required to be turned over to the State of California after G... Redevelopment: It’s aliiiiiiiive!Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 Aug. 29, 2012 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- The California Redevelopment Agency was given the ax in February by Gov. Jerry Brown. Since then, lawmakers have been working as diligently as Dr. Frankenstein to breathe new life back into the monster. Many Californians said good riddance to the a... Sacramento redevelopment repackaged?Thursday, June 7th, 2012Katy Grimes: John Shirey, Sacramento's latest city manager and former director of California's defunct Redevelopment Agency, sent out an email this evening promoting local business "opportunities" connecting with "resources." Only those "resources" are being repackaged as opportunities for... |