Sacramento jumps the shark on arena deal
Some people want something so badly, they’ll sell their souls to the devil, they’ll ignore facts, reason and important details. A case in point is Sacramento politicians, and the ongoing arena...
View ArticleSacramento arena: A ‘Field of Schemes’
Sacramento officials have lost all ability to reason, and instead are letting emotions and delusions of grandeur drive their decision over a downtown sports arena. Arenas are nothing more that fields...
View ArticlePoliticians seek special enviro deal on arena
This is Part One of a two-part series. The unusually speedy approval of a new NBA arena for the Kings basketball team in the heart of downtown Sacramento leaves many details and unanswered questions...
View ArticleSacto arena deal violates public policy and public trust
The dubious arena deal in Sacramento has strange bedfellows aligning. The lack of public debate, the fishy numbers put out by the city, and the deceit about the growing public subsidy has angered many...
View ArticleSacto arena bill signed, but it’s not over yet
I hate “I told ya so” moments. Gov. Jerry Brown just signed SB 743, “easing environmental regulations for developments in California cities, including a new basketball arena in downtown Sacramento,”...
View ArticleRegional Sports and Entertainment Facilities in the Urban Core Attract Costly...
Any fiscal conservative who joins a bipartisan coalition to advance a common cause needs to be wary about becoming one of the Left’s “useful idiots.” A classic example is now unfolding in Sacramento,...
View ArticleArena derangement syndrome afflicts Sacramento
Call it “arena derangement syndrome,” or ADS. It afflicts cities trying to use taxpayer money for new sports arenas or stadiums. It’s now threatening thevalidation of 35,000 ballot initiative petition...
View ArticleArena Derangement Syndrome update: Arena lawsuit nears deposition of city...
Opponents of the push for a heavily subsidized downtown Sacramento basketball arena are closer to forcing key city insiders to tell what they know about how much taxpayers actually will have to pay...
View ArticleJudge rules against taxpayer groups in arena subsidy initiative
Delusions of grandeur drive the proponents of a downtown sports arena in Sacramento. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley ruled against two taxpayers groups in Sacramento, to place the...
View ArticleThe quiet Arena lawsuit moves forward
Last week a judge ruled against the lawsuit to place the proposed public subsidy for the new basketballarena before Sacramento voters. Local media heralded the decision. But there is another...
View ArticleArena Derangement Syndrome Update: Whining About Legal Costs
The Sacramento arena deal has prompted questions over the lack of public debate about key details, dubious financial numbers from the city and the public subsidy the project requires. And, last-minute...
View ArticleMayor Kevin Johnson Uses Race To Boost Strong Mayor Initiative
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and the Sacramento Bee appear to be trying to gin up race issues in Sacramento in order to win a campaign. Mayor Johnson had two big stories about him in Sundays’...
View ArticleSacramento Arena Deal Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over
“It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” Lenny Kravitz crooned in the 1990’s. And so goes Sacramento’s publicly subsidized arena deal. The group of 12 citizens who sued the city under the California...
View ArticleSacramento Arena Deal About Power and Politics
This is Part ll; Part lSacramento Arena Deal Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over Sacramento has spent 13 years trying to build a publicly funded sports arena, with Mayor Kevin Johnson and Sacramento Sen....
View ArticleLocal ‘Thought Leaders’ Bamboozle Sac GOP on Measure L
I arrived home from a weekend away, lateSunday afternoon, to a robo-call phone message from the Sacramento County Republican Party Chairmantouting Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson’s “Strong Mayor,”...
View ArticleStatist CA Needs Leaders, Not Legacy-Seekers
Are you better off today than you were two, four or six years ago when progressive Democrats took over and expanded more of government? Of course not: As government grows, liberty decreases. It was...
View ArticleElection 2014: ‘Hope’ Finally Makes A Comeback For Reps, Strong Mayor Loses
Wow, what an election night. Hope makes a comeback… but not entirely in California. As exciting as the nationwide races were, my favorite race was local: Mayor Kevin Johnson’s Strong Mayor initiative,...
View ArticleFraud, Public Corruption, Secrecy and Lies Rock Sacramento
One of the biggest scandals to ever rock Sacramento is currently taking place. The monumental scandal was exposed last week by the local weekly newspaper,Sacramento News and Review. So far,The...
View Article‘Conversations On Race’ Missing Irrefutable Issues
However little the Republicans Party offered voters in the Nov. election, the Democrats offered far worse. Democrats showed once again they are more interested in ginning up discontent and unrest in...
View ArticlePlastic Bag Ban Opponents and Supporters Bringing the Fight To You
Staring at a gigantic German Shepherd poop on my bedroom rug last weekend, I reached for one of those single-use grocery bags outlawed by California, for the clean up. Thankfully, I have a small stash...
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