During elections we love to toss around hot air-filled slogans like “affordable housing,” “green building,” and “transit-oriented development.” But few of us step up to the homework of making...
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More than a few of us have said – or thought – that surely we could do better than California’s state legislature...
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49ers Stadium Development Agreement, Preliminary Financing Review at Dec. 6 Council Meeting
Come New Year’s Day 2012, the 49ers stadium project will start moving ahead at a notably faster pace. So, despite the many...
While California’s Brown Act establishes that public business must be conducted, well, in public, government agencies can hold private meetings to discuss...
The Santa Clara Charter Review Committee won’t complete its recommendation about the city’s election system on Oct. 11, 2011 as initially planned....
In what alternative universe did the Santa Clara city government think an open lawsuit against a prospective City Attorney would not draw...
Don’t say the 2002 California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) hasn’t had results. It’s just that results aren’t necessarily those civil rights activists...
Nearly ten years after the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) was passed into law, CVRA lawsuits and threats of lawsuits have cost...
In the August 31 piece, “Tale of Three City Budgets: Where the Income Comes From.” we incorrectly said that city of Sunnyvale...
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When it comes to raising the money that supports public services, Santa Clara provides a contrasting picture to its neighbors to the...