RDA Shutdown Goes On..and On At the current pace of operation, it feels like unwinding the state’s RDA program will take as long as the agency was in operation. At two meetings last week, the Santa Clara RDA Successor Agency Oversight Board, first, approved an agreement about the disputed...
Author: Carolyn Schuk
About a year ago, California Governor Jerry Brown proposed changes to California’s 80 year-old public employee pension plan. One provision of that...
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Nobody really cared Saturday afternoon that Willie Brown was a no-show at the Santa Clara County Democratic Club’s John Vasconcellos Day held...
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...
I think it’s time to retire the word “choice” from public policy discussions – at least the one concerning medical insurance. To...
Santa Clara has many traditions – its citywide July 4th picnic, the city Christmas tree lighting the first Friday in December, and...
As with so many issues in California state finance, following the trail of RDA history leads back to Proposition 13. The 1979...
In a change of pace from today’s hyper-polarized politics, the Santa Clara County Democratic Club is honoring retired State Senator John Vasconcellos,...
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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...