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A Budget Tale of Three Bay Area Cities
August 17, 2011
We know how severe our operating budget problems have been in Santa Clara. But how are neighboring cities faring? Using...
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Santa Clara: No Respect from California Redistricting Commission
August 3, 2011
Maybe California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission needs a geography lesson. Apparently the commissioners think the city of Santa Clara is in...
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Santa Clara City Council Meeting, July 12, 2011
July 20, 2011
It might not have seemed like it, but there was other important business on last week’s City Council agenda besides...
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City News
July 20, 2011
There’s No Place Like a Historic Home Historic preservation is always a work in progress. At one time, allowing historic...
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$154,000 is the Answer, But What’s the Question?
July 20, 2011
The above statistic is: The result you get if you divide Santa Clara’s employee compensation/benefits ($142,341,810) by the number of...
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49ers Stadium Marketing and Concessionaire Agreements Inked
July 13, 2011
The 49ers stadium project continues to advance. At its July 5 meeting, the Stadium Authority (which is one and the...
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City Desk
July 13, 2011
Pot – Not At last week’s City Council meeting, what was expected to be a routine motion to renew Santa...
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Santa Clara City Desk
July 6, 2011
An RDA By Any Other Name… Tuesday night as the California legislature – or at least, the Democrats in it...
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Charter Review Likely for Santa Clara’s At-Large Election System
June 22, 2011
On June 14, the City Council took the first steps toward establishing a review committee to look specifically at Santa...
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Filing Lawsuits Under Law They Wrote
June 22, 2011
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR) legal director Robert Rubin claims that the City of Santa Clara is violating California’s...