As reported yesterday, achieving a net gain of 120 police officers over three years — as called for by Measure A — will be a daunting task for the city, which is not exactly what voters want to hear after approving the three-quarter cent sales tax last year. The tax went into effect April 1; the [...]
This from Stockton’s Community Development Department: “The first public workshop will take place at the Planning Commission Meeting of July 24, 2014 at 6:00 pm in the City Council Chambers at City Hall at 345 N. El Dorado St. The topic of the meeting will be Communities and Neighborhoods and attendees will be invited to help define [...]
To-Can Nguyen, who speaks at virtually every council meeting and regularly makes inflammatory comments, tonight pushed another audience member over the edge. Nguyen referred to City Manager Kurt Wilson three times as “black city manager” Kurt Wilson. Cynthia Gail Boyd called Nguyen out on it after the second instance and again after the third, at [...]
Randy Burns, who ran unsuccessfully for Lincoln Unified school board in 2010, spoke a little while ago against a city plan to place advertising on fire trucks. “I think this could create animosity between other businesses in the city (and those that buy ads),” Burns said. “Is there nothing sacred? The next thing we’ll have [...]
So wonders an editorial cartoonist with the Los Angeles Daily News. Of course, if this is actually going to happen, it won’t be until Oct. 1 at the soonest.
Click here and here to read what others had to say about Tuesday’s hearing in federal bankruptcy court. Ed Mendel of the website Calpensions.com wrote: “A federal judge handling the Stockton bankruptcy may be moving toward a landmark ruling that CalPERS pensions can be cut, possibly while allowing the city to exit bankruptcy in October [...]
Stockton returns to federal bankruptcy court in about two hours. After passing through the metal detectors to enter the Robert T. Matsui Federal Courthouse in Sacramento, the first thing visitors see is a public art display. The words on the display are by Rita Dove, a former poet laureate of the United States.
In addition to Stockton, Christopher Rufo and Keith Ochwat are visiting Youngstown, Ohio, and Alligator, Miss. The two are in Stockton this week, and this afternoon they said their feature-length project is scheduled for release in early 2016. From the Documentary Foundation website: ” ‘America Lost’ is a feature-length documentary that asks the question: What [...]
It had appeared some changes at the animal shelter would be adopted at tomorrow night’s City Council meeting. Not so fast. Attorney Jenni James of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, which is suing the shelter, asked the city attorney today for more public review of the proposals for shorter holding periods and a suspension of [...]
At least one reader was interested in the answer to the question in the headline of this blog post as it relates to the proposed Cal Weber 40 project reported on in Sunday’s paper. Indeed, it’s a valid question. Here’s the answer, as contained in the staff report included with the agenda for tomorrow night’s City [...]
