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Santa Clara City Desk: Sept. 27, 2012
September 26, 2012
Candidates Forum Holds Few Surprises Last week’s City Council Candidates Forum, presented by the League of Women Voters, was eminently...
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Santa Clara Candidate Aims to Prove Grassroots Campaigns Work
September 19, 2012
In our media saturated age, some people still believe that grassroots campaigning can elect candidates. One of them is Santa...
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Santa Clara City Desk: Sept. 19, 2012
September 19, 2012
Federal Grants Fund $1.8 Million in City Streets’ Safety and Improvement Santa Clara is moving forward with two projects to...
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Santa Clara City Desk: Sept. 12, 2012
September 12, 2012
Santa Clara Teacher Helps Advance Science, Technology and Math Education St. Lawrence Academy high school math and computer teacher Natalie...
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Santa Clara City Desk: Aug. 29, 2012
August 29, 2012
RDA Shutdown Goes On..and On At the current pace of operation, it feels like unwinding the state’s RDA program will...
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CalPERS: Where the Benefits Come From
August 22, 2012
About a year ago, California Governor Jerry Brown proposed changes to California’s 80 year-old public employee pension plan. One provision...
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100 Years Later El Camino Real Still a Public Policy Challenge
August 15, 2012
History buffs may have noted that 2012 is the 100-year anniversary of the first paving of the California State Highway...
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Emails Point to RDA Successor Agency Oversight Board Bias
August 15, 2012
Members of the Santa Clara RDA successor agency oversight board weren’t just disinterested executors of state law when they voted...
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RDA Backstory Complex
August 8, 2012
As with so many issues in California state finance, following the trail of RDA history leads back to Proposition 13....
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CalPERS Returns: 2012 Isn’t the Whole Story
July 25, 2012
The next catastrophe to wallop municipal budgets will be a shortfall in CalPERS returns, adding to the already-escalating payments levied...