The California Housing Finance Agency is poised to launch a scaled-down version of its new shared equity home loan program on March 27. With the Dream for All program, the state plans to provide $300 million worth of down payments for an estimated 2,300 first-time homebuyers. The complicate...
Lay, a very close friend and long time associate of President Bush and Vice-president Cheney, and one of their largest campaign contributors, hastily assembled a meeting with prominent Californians (confirmed by the release of 34 pages of internal Enron email) to strategize opposition to the Davis...
Sometime after this weekend, the news media will start a drum-banging campaign to convince the nation that the charismatic Joe Biden is president-elect, no matter how inconclusive the outcome actually is or how many procedural and judicial hoops it has to pass through before reaching a definitiv...
Mr. Flora, a reasonably intelligent budget guy, speaking for the County, replied: “Currently the cannabis program is budgeted in the Agricultural Commissioner's budget (Budget Unit 2710). The program is budgeted separately from the traditional responsibilities of the Ag. Commissioner’s Office (int...
“This program is really being set up as a transit corridor program to fill that gap of first- and last-mile transportation,” McDonald said. McDonald said planners are working to identify where the bike share stations will be situated. They will be concentrated near the Sonoma-Marin Area ...
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Lobbying is just one of the seven methods that Big Oil uses in California to exercise inordinate influence over California regulators. WSPA and Big Oil wield their power in 7 major ways: through (1) lobbying; (2) campaign spending; (3) serving on and putting shills on regulatory panels; ...
(We’re not expecting much: Wine people don’t rat on other wine people, generally, even when the downstream wine people are shorted by the upstream wine people. If the Water Board was serious, they’d offerrewardsfor tips; then the Mexicans who do the wine people’s actual work might ...
Human Resources Director Linda Clouser claimed credit for having “successfully negotiated bargaining unit contracts” for some county employees, the so-called “Confidential Unit,” the Management Association, and the Department Head Association. Supervisor David Colfax, as usual focused on himself, galla...