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April 4, 2012 Katy Grimes It’s getting tiring pointing out that while Sacramento burns, the City Council is fiddling. At the city council meeting last evening, several council members questioned whether Joe and Gavin Maloof, the Kings’ owners, were serious or
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Sacto City Clerk rejects petition to put arena subsidy to a public vote
In another twist in Sacramento’s arena derangement syndrome, a petition drive to put a public subsidy for the proposed Sacramento basketball arena project to a public vote, has been rejected by the Sacramento City Clerk. Friday, the city clerk announced
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Mayor’s ‘arena hype machine’ shuns due diligence, economic analysis
Arena Derangement Syndrome continues. “Collusion” and “shady dealings,” are just a few of the words used in a letter to describe the City of Sacramento’s “utter failure to conduct any economic analysis” in the proposed taxpayer-subsidized sports arena. Attorneys representing members
Read MoreArena lawsuit: Deposition of key officials nears go-ahead
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 for the project. Last week, Sacramento Superior
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Sacto media in-the-bag for arena deal debt?
Examples of local media bias in favor of the Sacramento Kings arena subsidy, as well as their vehemence against the people’s right to vote on the subsidy, can be found everywhere — the Sacramento Bee, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News
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CA still worst run state in the nation; Sacramento’s stadium obesssion
For the third year in a row, California has been named the worst-run state in America, by 24/7 Wall Street. Is it any wonder? With at least 10 California cities on the verge of municipal bankruptcy, a $24 billion budget shortfall
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Mr. Arena named to Obama’s new climate change council
Through another executive order, President Barack Obama has created a new environmental council that’s sure to expand government’s role in how Americans use their own property and land, water and even energy sources. A prominent California mayor is going to be
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Sacto arena bill signed, but 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,” the Los Angeles Times said. In March I predicted Senate President Pro
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The high cost of ignoring the truth: Sacramento Convention Center
The City of Sacramento, usually on the wrong side of economic sense and accountability, is planning to build an even bigger, more expensive Convention Center, despite $16 million in annual losses over a 10-year period, and cumulative losses of $218 million over
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Sacramento's Convention Center money pit
The Sacramento Convention Center is living proof that even if you build it, they don’t come. Despite insistence from Convention Center officials that the center is an economic driver, a new report shows quite the opposite; the convention center is
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