Tait Family Wealth Used to Attack His Council Colleagues
Anaheim Insider here. If you could spend $49,750 on anything in your community, what would you...
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Category: TOT tax
OC Register Editorial On Convention Center Expansion Misses The Mark…By 50 Years
Editorials like the one this morning opposing the Anaheim Convention Center expansion cause me to...
Read MoreAnaheim City Council Votes 4-1 to Approve GardenWalk Agreement
It was a loooooong Anaheim City Council meeting (I did not attend as it is my youngest daughter’s birthday, but caught as much as I could on the Internet), the Anaheim City Council voted 4-1 to approve the GardenWalk...
Read MoreLucille Kring E-Mails Anaheimers With GardenWalk Facts
Yesterday, Anaheim Councilwoman Lucille Kring sent out this e-mail regarding the GardenWalk agreement coming before the City Council this evening: To the Residents, Business Owners and Workers in the City of Anaheim, There has...
Read MoreTom Tait Records Anti-GardenWalk Robocall
Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait recorded a robocall that went out yesterday (I don’t know how wide a voter universe it went to): This is Mayor Tom Tait. At tomorrow’s city council meeting, special interests and lobbyists are...
Read MoreOn the May 14 Council Agenda: GardenWalk, Charter Review Committee
The GardenWalk Hotels agreement is on the May 14 agenda of the Anaheim City Council. The cap on the total TOT rebate is still $158 million (which is a tricky number that merits further explanation in another post), but the...
Read MoreOC Register Shifts Its Stance On GardenWalk Project
[EDITOR’S NOTE: For reasons I don’t understand, when a reader clicks on the title of a post to read the full post, the byline disappears, which often leaves readers confused as to the authorship of the post. To...
Read MoreAnaheim Must Compete In Hotel Market Distorted by Garden Grove
Some of my Republican friends argue with me over my support for the GardenWalk project TOT rebate, pointing out that it isn’t free market economics and that government shouldn’t subsidize a business enterprise. My response is...
Read MoreKris Murray Proposes Return of “Home Improvement Holiday”
During councilmember comments at last night Anaheim City Council meeting, Councilwoman Kris Murray proposed the return of a most excellent policy: the Home Improvement Holiday (HIH). It’s been almost 10 years since Anaheim...
Read MoreMore Councilmember Resolutions: Brandman and Kring
The OC Register has published New Year resolutions from the two newest members of the Anaheim City Council, Jordan Brandman and Lucille Kring: Here’s Brandman’s (who was the top vote-getter in November’s...
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