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Understanding desalination Monterey Peninsula-style requires many lawyers and...
After careful contemplation and the expenditure of countless hours of staff time and other resources, I have come to the conclusion that the two biggest problems facing the Monterey Peninsula are quite...
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Solid wharf explainer in today’s Monterey Herald
I recommend that Partisan readers check out today’s Herald story about the controversy over the leases at Fisherman’s Wharf. It is not the end-all, be-all story but it does do a nice job of framing...
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Useful wharf info here
Here are some links to information about wharf leases and related matters on the city of Monterey web site, thanks to an alert and helpful city staffer. Direct links to the documents are: Leasing...
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WILLARD McCRONE: Monterey’s wharf rules might as well have been written by...
puON THE WATERFRONT! This just in! …stop… Monterey tries to slide two stinking wharf fish past the public on the consent agenda. …stop… Sweetheart deals still to be had for members of the private Wharf...
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ALAN HAFFA & LIBBY DOWNEY: City treasures local tenants on wharf but needs to...
Regretfully, after nearly a year of negotiations between the city of Monterey and Sam Balesteri, who has had a master lease for the Wharf Gift Shop, Coffee Shop, and Paluca’s Trattoria for 50 years,...
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WILLARD McCRONE: Don’t believe the myths being spread by the Monterey Wharf...
It is encouraging to see the number of interested parties responding to the accurate piece by Alan Haffa and Libby Down about the Monterey City Council’s action to finally re-exert control over...
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Monterey councilman stretches wharf’s tax contribution by 500 percent
Monterey City Councilman Timothy Barrett frequently aligns with colleagues Libby Downey and Alan Haffa but has taken a sharp turn to oppose their effort to reform the city’s archaic leasing policies...
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Some real facts and figures make the city’s case for Monterey wharf reform
People like controversy but only if the issues are straightforward and the arguments not too hard to follow. Unfortunately, that has not been the case with the long-running debate over the city of...
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At Fisherman’s Wharf, money protects the status quo — at taxpayer expense
The case for campaign contribution reform grows with each passing election. Take the city of Monterey, for instance, where a reform-minded city councilwoman, Libby Downey, was knocked out of office in...
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Are Monterey officials getting even cozier with the Fisherman’s Wharf operators?
Bill McCrone has a question for the folks at City Hall, and it’s a simple one: What’s the hurry? Specifically, why are city officials renegotiating lease terms with Chris Shake for the Fisherman’s...
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