Posts Tagged ‘Richard Trainor’Stadium Dreams and Sacramento KingsWednesday, August 3rd, 2011 AUGUST 3, 2011 By PATRICK MELARKEY and RICHARD TRAINOR For the past couple years we have watched our home town struggle to keep the Sacramento Kings basketball team in Sacramento. We have also observed the proposed attempt to build a new $400 million stadium for the team in downtown Sacramento... Treasure Isle: Greed, Gold, Toxic WasteTuesday, July 26th, 2011 JULY 26, 2011 By RICHARD TRAINOR Yo ho ho and and a pot of redevelopment gold. For 15 years San Francisco has tried to transform Treasure Island from a sandy former Naval base into a gold and jobs-generating new urban community with 40-story skyscrapers interspersed by parks and marinas. The idea... Noted Lawyer Slammed in Judicial GulagTuesday, July 5th, 2011 JULY 5, 2011 By RICHARD TRAINOR When I met Richard Fine in the summer of 2001, he was riding high. Shortly after that he was rotting in jail. A prominent attorney with a thriving practice in Beverly Hills, in the sunny days of 2001 Fine was a political insider with powerful connections to U... Victims Program Needs Major OverhaulMonday, June 27th, 2011 JUNE 27, 2011 By RICHARD TRAINOR The California State Victims of Crime Program (VCP) is a neat little boutique agency designed to assist crime victims. It’s officially known as the Victims Compensation and Government Claims Board, or colloquially as the CalVCP. Formed in 1965, CalVCP is t... Sacto’s Ongoing Redevelopment DisasterTuesday, April 19th, 2011 APRIL 19, 2011 By RICHARD TRAINOR Since its inception in 1953, the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency has been driven by scandals, sweetheart deals for connected developers, cockeyed projects and ineptitude. In 1991, this reporter wrote the official history of the (SHRA) in a book t... |