Mahan supports yet another big, flawed tax proposal

August 13, 2025 Image from SHIFT-Bay Area The failures of RM4 and Prop 5 notwithstanding, SJ Mayor Mahan voted (as a member of VTA board) to opt into Senate Bill 63, which aims to raise local taxes to help bail out our obsolete and spectacularly wasteful county transit system–especially when compared to emerging alternatives. SHIFT-Bay Area on…

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Instagram: It was definitely a life long commitment!

It was definitely a life long commitment!There are so many good deeds this man has done. I honestly don’t know how anyone can keep from liking him.Donald J. Trump has always been an all around good guy, who does nothing but good for others.And now he is trying to save our Great Nation!PS: isn’t it…

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The perils of boosterism

Chapter 8Boosterism, Brokerage and Uneasy Bedfellows:Networked Urban Governance and the Emergence ofPost-Political Orthodoxy Iain Deas and Nicola HeadlamPre-publication final draft chapter in: Paddison, R. and Hutton, T (eds) Cities andEconomic Change: Restructuring and Dislocation in the Global Metropolis, London:Sage.BackgroundThis chapter explores recent experiences of city governance, focusing in particular on theemergence of entrepreneurial governance strategies…

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