Category Archives: 29 Palms

City manager says he wasn’t pushed to resign

May 22, 2013 1 comment

The  header to this story is a bit misleading. The Moreno Valley city manager said this week he wasn’t pushed to resign. It was not the Richard Warne the Twentynine Palms outgoing city manager who sa...

Redevelopment Lawsuits hits 100 Mark

May 21, 2013 7 comments

According to the League of California Cities newsletter, it’s been a busy season for lawyers and courts as the number of lawsuits filed against the Department of Finance hits the 100 mark.  The...

29 Palms Sales Tax Shrink by 4.7%

May 20, 2013 3 comments

Receipts for Twentynine Palms October through December 2012 were 4.7% lower than the same quarter a year before. The actual sales activity shrunk by 2.7% when reporting aberrations were factored out....

It’s nice to get an atta boy

May 16, 2013 6 comments

Thank you Dan O’Brien. Thank you Steve Spear. Thank you Jim Bagley. Your caring vigilance in the operation of our city is most appreciated.     Thank you K. J. Snyder for your support. Dan ...

It was a Barn Burner

May 15, 2013 4 comments

For me Last nights meeting was short and to the point. I received a rambling incoherent letter from the City Attorney. I kicked off the public comment session with a short talk about the Council taki...

Open Meetings Bill Offers Cease and Desist Solution

May 14, 2013 no comments

SB 1003 by Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) offers a way for local government bodies to avoid litigation by pledging to abandon meeting-related practices that prompt accusations of Brown Act viol...

Ralph M. Brown Act Amended To Require Cease And Desist Letter Before B...

May 13, 2013 no comments

Editors Note:  I was asked why I issued a Cease and Desist Letter to the City of Twentynine Palms concerning the Warne Termination/retirement/resignation…… Well be cause it is now the law...

Executive Compensation and Brown Act Requirements

May 13, 2013 1 comment

 Hanson Bridgett LLP opined this little ditty:   In the wake of the City of Bell executive compensation scandal, the Legislature has taken aggressive steps to protect against future abuse by gov...

What is a “closed session”?

May 12, 2013 8 comments

There has been a bit of discussions concerning “Closed Sessions”, and I figured it is about time that everyone had a bit of a period of instruction of what it all means. This is an extract from the F...

More and more, what the city council is doing doesn’t add up

May 12, 2013 no comments

 Twentynine Palms, CA – Famed theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Stephen Hawkins, explains that once light is sucked inside a black hole it cannot escapes. The event horizon of a black hole...

It’s time for Twentynine Palms to play by the rules

May 11, 2013 1 comment

PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S COVETED WORDS IN THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS  SPEAK TO TWENTYNINE PALMS A government “of the people, by the people and for the people” is at the heart of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Add...

Its a Good Day for the People

May 10, 2013 5 comments

“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a peo...

Council told to Void Guzetta Contract, Call for Public Hearing Tuesday...

May 9, 2013 9 comments

“In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim – that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.” –George Mas...

Twentynine Palms, will become the best Winter Vacation Resort in Calif...

May 9, 2013 no comments

The Twentynine Palms environment now is on their doorstep looking at and entering into a fabulous dream. We have assets in place which permit us to achieve our dream more easily. We have a healthy cl...