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Imagining A Redeveloped Grossmont Center
LA MESA -- When the lease on the land under Grossmont Center…
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La Mesa Council Annual Workshop
A Day To Pause And Think
LA MESA – Once a year the City Council retreats away with the city staff and, without an agenda, a public hearing or angry citizens dominating the session the way…
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City Council Meeting
Taking A Moment To Remember Korea
LA MESA -- No matter how many times the City Council starts a meeting with a salute to veterans, it never seems to get old.
Perhaps it is the age of the veterans -- in most cases seventy years removed from the events of their youth that made them veterans. Or maybe it is the unstated but evident fact that these gentlemen are quickly leaving us.
But the…
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From Santee To The Sea
Local Residents Celebrate The New 52
SANTEE -- In many ways it was the most California of events. Thousands of local residents gathered to celebrate two new ribbons of concrete snaking through the hills of East County San Diego.
If ever there were a people on this planet who understood the benefits of a good road, it is Californians. And thousands made…
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Helix Water District Shrinks Its Budget
Helix Water District Shrinks Its Budget
By Russell Buckley
So reads the headline in the most recent edition of Helix Highlights - a glossy publication from HWD. I am happy to see costs reduced. I assume that will mean lower water rates - a thing I expect most of us can agree about. But a little more reflection on the article brings out the skeptic in me. Ongoing MOU negotiations, which many of us…
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La Mesa City Council
La Mesa Will Look At More Consolidation
LA MESA -- The City Council took another step down the road to further consolidation of city services Tuesday afternoon. The council voted to have the city staff begin formally studying consolidation of the city's animal control services with El Cajon.
City staff will also begin looking at options in…
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Downtown Redevelopment
PBID Committee Sets First Agenda
LA MESA – The committee studying the possibility of establishing a Property Based Improvement District in downtown La Mesa has been formed and is beginning to publicize its meetings and agendas.
The committee is planning its first formal meeting Wednesday, March 9, at 6 p.m. in the La Mesa Police…
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Tax Hawks shed light on HWD excesses
David Smyle, a LaMesaToday.com member, is one of the founding members of the East County Tax Hawks group. He files this report on the organization's behalf.
At Wednesday’s HWD Board Meeting, the East County Tax Hawks brought to light how the failure of HWD Boards to act responsibly and in the best interests of the rate payers in the last two employee MOUs is going to cost the rate payer. Since 2002, HWD has hired 76 people of the 150 current employees or over 50% of…
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Helix Water District
Watchdog Group Lists Demands For Water District
LA MESA -- The East County Tax Hawks, a fledgling group formed recently to focus on government spending and public employee benefits, plans to return to the…
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Crime Watch
Chief Lanning Fields Citizen Concerns
LEMON AVENUE -- La Mesa Police Chief Alan Lanning conducted a neighborhood meeting at Lemon Avenue Elementary School Wednesday night. He fielded kind questions from an apparently…
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Honoring Veterans
Council Honors World War II Vets
LA MESA -- The City Council began Tuesday night's meeting with a tribute to World War II veterans.
Councilman Dave Allan, who is heading the effort to…
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Property-Based Improvement District
Committee Chooses Lynn McCrea To Head Effort
LA MESA – The Steering Committee analyzing the possibility of establishing a property-based improvement district in downtown La Mesa held an organizational…
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Helix Water District
Citizens To Water District: Time For Cuts
HELIX WATER DISTRICT – The board that oversees delivery of water to most homes in East County met Thursday and heard from a few of their customers who have been…
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Pebbles against the stone wall
I am just back from the Helix Water District meeting. Their agenda today was pretty large but my area of concern was their labour negotiations, etc. As I sit here I am amazed. Some 260,000 customers go to their mailboxes and extract their water bill each month. It would seem from the monumental turn out that practically all are either totally satisfied with their monthly bills, perfectly happy how the District continues…
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Helix Water Board Meeting Wednesday
Posted By David Smyle
We need a show of force at this Wednesday's HWD Board meeting at 2 pm at the HWD offices. Tell everyone you know who can make it to show up at the meeting and let the Board know their continued acceptance and promotion of these excessive employee beneifts EMPLOYEE BENEFIT…
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East County Government
Citizens Move To Form Taxpayer Watchdog Group
LA MESA -- A group of La Mesans and other East County residents are attempting to form a special taxpayers' watchdog group.
In a press announcement, filed with LaMesaToday.com on Sunday, La Mesa resident David Smyle, said the purpose of the group is to research and highlight governmental excesses and to spur more community…
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Environmental Sustainability Comission
YOUTH OPPORTUNITY ON THE CITY OF LA MESA’S
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION
La Mesa… The City is currently looking for a youth representative to serve on the Environmental Sustainability Commission. Applicants must live within the city limits of La Mesa and not be more than 21 years of age.
Applications may be obtained by accessing the City of La Mesa website, www.cityoflamesa.com or from…
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The Looming Pension Crisis In La Mesa
Why Russell Buckley Keeps Talking Pensions
By Chris Lavin, Editor
LA MESA – The City Council…
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Government
City Looking For A Few Good Drivers
LA MESA – One of the great parts of living in the Jewel of the Hills, everyone agrees, is the rural, small-town feel. Homes are tucked away in quiet glens and secluded hillsides. But…
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City Hall
Officials Seek Support For Marine's Pet
LA MESA -- A local U.S. Marine who is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder recently purchased a companion dog from a local pet store that may have been the product of a puppy mill.
The dog almost immediately had health problems and the marine was left with vet bills he couldn't afford.
Mayor Art Madrid today held a press…
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The Wall Street Journal
Over 50 percent of Americans expect home prices to rise
More than half of Americans now expect the country’s home prices to climb within the next year, illustrating a growing optimism toward the health of the housing industry, according to new data from Fannie Mae. Read the full story.
Los Angeles Times
Some homes are slow to sell even in the hottest markets
With full-fledged sellers’ markets underway in dozens of metropolitan areas around the country, new research has found curious statistical patterns emerging: Even in cities where listings get multiple offers within days or hours, significant numbers of homes are sitting on the market for six months, 12 months, or more with no takers. Among the reasons: Mispricing, excessive restrictions on access to buyers and agents, failure to clean or make repairs, and a variety of other marketing bungles. Read the full story.
The Wall Street Journal
Principal forgiveness could reduce costs for taxpayers
Allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to reduce loan balances for borrowers who owe more than their homes are worth could ultimately reduce mortgage defaults and save the government money, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office. Read the full story.
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