Candidates Forum Holds Few Surprises Last week’s City Council Candidates Forum, presented by the League of Women Voters, was eminently predictable – reliably centrist, un-ideological and pragmatic. The evening’s...
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In our media saturated age, some people still believe that grassroots campaigning can elect candidates. One of them is Santa Claran ArLyne...
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Federal Grants Fund $1.8 Million in City Streets’ Safety and Improvement Santa Clara is moving forward with two projects to improve pedestrian...
Santa Clara Teacher Helps Advance Science, Technology and Math Education St. Lawrence Academy high school math and computer teacher Natalie Murphy was...
RDA Shutdown Goes On..and On At the current pace of operation, it feels like unwinding the state’s RDA program will take as...
About a year ago, California Governor Jerry Brown proposed changes to California’s 80 year-old public employee pension plan. One provision of that...
History buffs may have noted that 2012 is the 100-year anniversary of the first paving of the California State Highway System, which...
Members of the Santa Clara RDA successor agency oversight board weren’t just disinterested executors of state law when they voted on June...
As with so many issues in California state finance, following the trail of RDA history leads back to Proposition 13. The 1979...
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The next catastrophe to wallop municipal budgets will be a shortfall in CalPERS returns, adding to the already-escalating payments levied by the...