AROUND TOWN
Pension Reform Dead - HSR approved -State Broke
CalPERS has just ended their fiscal year losing 10 billion dollars while projecting they would earn 18.6 billion, for a net loss to the taxpayers of 28.6 billion (just this pa... |
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on Jul 10, 2012 at 11:32 am by M, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Gov. Brown's Budget Plan
“Governor Jerry Brown proposed $92.6 billion in spending for the year starting in July, an increase of about 7 percent, which will count on voters approving $7 billion of high... |
Arnold |
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on Jan 10, 2012 at 8:32 pm by GX, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
The governor's dice roll (Tim Hunt)
Tim Hunt: "California is a great dichotomy—we want all of the services (quality, low-cost higher education, locking up three-strikes criminals for life, lots of mass transit a... |
Arnold |
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on Jan 10, 2012 at 2:41 pm by Kathleen Ruegsegger, a resident of the Vintage Hills Elementary School neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Ootgoing CalPERS Board Member Rips Earnings
Outgoing CalPERS board member rips earnings
December 19, 2011
“In a feisty farewell last week, an outgoing CalPERS board member, Lou Moret, called attention to the below-... |
Arnold |
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on Jan 4, 2012 at 1:45 am by B Madoff, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Teacher's Retirement Fund Wants You - The Taxpayers!
““…the state will have to increase CalSTRS funding by $3.8 billion a year for 30 years for a total of more than $114 billion.””
“Spokespersons for the government unions... |
Arnold |
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on Jan 2, 2012 at 11:10 am by to: stacey, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Gov. Brown - CalPERS is a Ponzt Scheme
"Brown was particularly bothered by a contention in a report by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System that closing the existing defined benefit plan to new emplo... |
Arnold |
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on Dec 5, 2011 at 9:29 am by watching pensions, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
State pension funds: what went wrong
Two CalSTRS programs that expired at the beginning of the new year are an example of what all three state public pension systems did in good times — pumped up pensions for ret... |
Arnold |
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on Oct 25, 2011 at 9:27 am by Patriot, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Target Return Of 7.75% Very Challenging
Target Return Of 7.75% Very Challenging In The Near-term
By Cam Hui on October 12, 2011
“Joseph Dear, the CIO of CALPERS, appeared on CNBC yesterday to discuss the near... |
Arnold |
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on Oct 14, 2011 at 2:07 am by Arnold, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Who pays CalSTRS debt: state, schools, teachers?
Who pays CalSTRS debt: state, schools, teachers?
By Ed Mendel
"A day of reckoning may be coming for a huge CalSTRS shortfall: an “unfunded liability” estimated to be $5... |
Arnold |
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on Sep 12, 2011 at 6:47 pm by Candy Man Luke, a resident of the Las Positas neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Board meeting NOT on web OR T.V. tonight??
E-mail form PUSD: June 29, 7:08 p.m.
Due to technical difficulties, tonight's meeting cannot be televised or webcast live. The meeting will be run on Channel 28 tomorrow (Tue... |
Arnold |
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on Jun 30, 2009 at 6:13 pm by parent, a resident of the Downtown neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
STUDIO 7 NON-EVENT
So, I get an email from Studio 7 saying to come down cause "We're moving on"! Okay, so I thought it was a farewell party or something like that because the email was vague. Al... |
Art Critic |
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on Mar 21, 2010 at 2:30 pm by M, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
New Studio 7 Owner -- YOU SHOULD HEED THIS
Now that the former Studio 7 owner has sold out it would seem to be just common sense to change the name! The former owner and her family appeared to take pride in alienating... |
Art Lover |
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on Apr 3, 2010 at 10:35 am by M, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
STATE, NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL
Is Bridget Melson bad for Pleasanton?
Perhaps no one person has done more to make Pleasanton look like a haven for right-wing bigotry and intolerance than Bridget Melson. As the organizer of the April 15 Tax Day T... |
Arthur Y. |
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on Dec 2, 2011 at 4:33 pm by Real Republican, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Article states East bay school district will go bankrupt next year
This article talks about a San Jose school district's choices to take pay cuts/less instructional time. It is also mentioned how the situation is not unique to that district... |
Article |
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on Mar 15, 2010 at 5:30 pm by Article, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
STATE, NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL
Right-Wing Assassination Swag
Conservatives are marketing their own exclusive lines of assassination swag Web Link
Someone tell me aga... |
Artie |
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on Jun 16, 2009 at 1:08 pm by hmmmmmmmmm, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
STATE, NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL
'Tea party' protesters accused of spitting on lawmaker, using slurs
This is an article from The Washington Post:
Web Link
"Members of the Congressional Black Cau... |
Athens |
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on Mar 22, 2010 at 8:52 pm by Oh, PM, a resident of the Amador Estates neighborhood |
STATE, NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL
Weekly Censors "human trafficking" for the third time
CNN is doing a massive campaign for the cause of HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Web Link
900,000... |
Author |
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on Oct 30, 2011 at 6:31 pm by My opinion, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
"We the People...." team going into finals tomorrow in DC!
An update from Washington DC: The Amador Valley High School "We the People..." Competition Civics Team, representing the state of California, is one of the Top 10 teams after ... |
AV |
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on Apr 28, 2009 at 2:23 am by AV, a member of the Amador Valley High School community |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
AVHS 2nd in We The People Nationals
Great job to the team and coaches...
Web Link
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AvFan |
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on Apr 29, 2013 at 7:12 pm by AvFan, a resident of the Amador Estates neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Amador Valley High Makes We The People Finals Again!
Congrats to the AVHS team and coaches for making the Top 10 and advancing to tomorrow's finals.
- ILLINOIS, Maine South High School
- CALIFORNIA, Amador Valley High Scho... |
AvFan |
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on Apr 28, 2013 at 7:08 pm by AvFan, a resident of the Amberwood/Wood Meadows neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
We The People State Finals Result?
Anyone hear the result of the WTP state finals being held in Bakersfield yesterday? Both Amador and Foothill were competing. Can't find anything on the web about it. |
AVFan |
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on Feb 15, 2012 at 9:37 pm by Congrats!, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Amador and Foothill High Schools Advance in State "We The People" Competition
Amador Valley HS and Foothill HS from Pleasanton are two of the 5 teams that advanced to the final round of the CA State "We The People" competition after preliminary rounds T... |
AVFan |
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on Feb 6, 2010 at 1:42 pm by Amador Mom, a resident of the Mohr Park neighborhood |
AROUND TOWN
Wolf Sighting on Martin Avenue
Sunday morning between 7:30 and 8AM I saw what I thought at first was a fox running slowly along the inside of the fence between Martin Avenue and the quarry lake. It was a li... |
AVHS Dad |
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on Dec 17, 2009 at 11:21 pm by Pat, a resident of the West of Foothill neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Graffiti threat found at AVHS today
Just got home to listen to a voicemail left by Rick Sira saying that a graffiti threat was found in a bathroom in the Q Building today. What is with all this copycat threats?... |
AVHS Parent |
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on Mar 18, 2013 at 3:56 pm by Concerned parent, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood |
SCHOOLS & KIDS
Next AHVS Principal - Jim Hansen?
Hearing thru the grapevine that Jim Hansen, current principal at Harvest Park, is slated to become principal at Amador Valley High School, replacing the retiring Bill Coupe. ... |
AVHSFan |
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on Jul 9, 2010 at 7:23 pm by Whoop!!, a resident of the Beratlis Place neighborhood |
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