Unraveling the redevelopment mess — My Sunday Column for Glendale, Burbank &...
Sooner or later, the bills come due in all our lives – even in the lives of government agencies. Just ask the people who bought a house they couldn’t afford or city officials who got addicted over the...
View ArticleMy Sunday Column: The Trouble with Harry — Persistent Activist Gets the...
Let’s have a big round of applause for retired law professor Harry Zavos. Citing the state Constitution and a lawsuit won by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. against the Los Angeles Department of...
View ArticleMy Sunday Column: Glendale Power Assn. vs. IBEW — The 21 Power Plant...
The moral premise of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18 as often expressed by union boss Brian D’Arcy is clear and to the point: “My responsibility is to look after the...
View ArticleMy Sunday Column: As certain as the lights coming on — Electricity rates are...
City Manager Scott Ochoa, armed with graphs and pie charts and a thousand details, spent 55 minutes offering a “relatively brief presentation” explaining why electricity rate hikes averaging 26 percent...
View ArticleMy Sunday Column: Glendale’s decision, L.A’s problem — Running Municipal...
This is a tale of two cities — yours and mine, each with its own water and power utility companies. In your city, base rates for electricity did not go up for six years until the City Council narrowly...
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