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Some property owners will enjoy lower taxes
by Bill Arballo
13 days ago | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
Thanks to reduced valuations Approximately 660,000 property taxpayers will be rubbing their eyes in disbelief when they scan their bills and find the amount due is less rather than more, compare...
Finally a Cardiff specific plan after more than a decade
by Bill Arballo
21 days ago | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
Been a while In 1999 four Cardiffians, including Teresa Barth, Barbara Cobb, Mike Clark and Jim Bush, met to organize residents who were interested in developing a specific plan for the communit...
Recent elections forecast change is in the wind
by Bill Arballo
28 days ago | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
No longer biz as usual While recent election results weren’t of earthquake dimensions they did forecast that voters are paying more attention to the way their electeds are running the people’s a...
It’s time for state budget capers
by Bill Arballo
1 month ago | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
Will be late again State electeds will maintain their perfect record of never having a balanced budget approved on schedule. Controller John Ching has served notice it will be necessary to begin...
Street sign wavers survive effort to ban them
by Bill Arballo
1 month ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Commission seeks more input Just when Vista sign spinners thought they would be added to the outta work lines they received a temporary time out. The Planning Commission had been requested to d...
Shortage of race horses creating a problem
by Bill Arballo
1 month ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Hollypark scrubs a day Recently, Hollywood Park at Inglewood that precedes Del Mar cancelled a day of racing becuz there weren’t enough entries to fill the card. Backstretch banter is that Holly...
20 months ago | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Primary election on Tuesday ... finally
by Bill Arballo
1 month ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Voters are bushed For at least a coppla weeks after Tuesday folks will be free of being bombarded with campaign rhetoric then it will start all over again in advance of the November election. Fr...
Gas prices hover around $3.40 but no public outcry
by Bill Arballo
2 months ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Buck less in 2003 Less than a decade ago motorists were shaking their fists at station operators when petrol was inching toward $2.50 per gallon. Average price had averaged $1.85. State and nati...
Voters will consider 5 propositions in June 8 primary
by Bill Arballo
2 months ago | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Unlike previous elections when state props were heavily ballyhooed, none of the five on the primary ballot have caused folks to suffer from hypertension. Prop. 13 allows for earthquake safety impro...
Senator’s bill threatens fairgrounds operations
by Bill Arballo
3 months ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Labor would be affected State Sen. Christine Kehoe’s Bill 1177, as proposed, would cripple year-round County Fair operations, 22nd Agricultural District President Barry Nussbaum told the board o...
Sea walls now a hot-button issue in C’bad
by Bill Arballo
3 months ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
They used to be contested in Solbeach Seawalls that for years dominated Solbeach news now are the topic 14 miles up the road in C’bad, where they were recently the subject of a passion-charged P...
Gas tax switch gets mixed reviews
by Bill Arballo
3 months ago | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Benefits the state A gas tax swap from sales to excise recently approved by the Sacramento electeds has been described in some quarters as “bait and switch” but it won’t affect consumers at the ...
Methodology differs in determining water rates
by Bill Arballo
3 months ago | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
SDWD customers pay less Question in a recent column asked why water rates differed between customers in the San Dieguito and Olivenhain water districts. According to Larry Watt, general manager ...