Posts by Take Back San Jose
Instagram: HERE is the monument to 16 years of failed one party rule.
$200 billion over budget, 30 years late – this is not a ‘bullet train’, it’s a bullsh*t train.
Read MoreINSTAGRAM: YOU’VE LOST THE PLOT, ALL RIGHT…
☆ Moses: give San Jose the “freedom” to fix its structural deficit
Special Reports March 12, 2026 “Avoiding layoffs is not in the interest of the taxpayers,” says Mark Moses, and it’s “too late to find savings from efficiency gains this year.” Instead, he argues, San Jose should begin a long-term approach to financial health: management should slowly regain control of the workforce, and sunset wasteful programs.…
Read MoreMahan 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…
Read MoreInstagram: Are CA Democrats trying to hide INCREASES to your water bill?
AB 2180 (Ward) would allow them to CHARGE YOU MORE without a straight answer as to why. Contact your legislator’s office, and tell them to say NO to AB 2180.
Read MoreINSTAGRAM: There are two candidates for governor who would bring change: me and Chad Bianco. Only one of us can now make the run-off. A vote for Bianco is a vote for TWO DEMOCRATS in the top two.
INSTAGRAM: America’s Weakness Just Became Its Most Powerful Weapon.
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…
Read MoreINSTAGRAM: Years of Democrat policies have made it a nightmare to run a restaurant in California! I once had a couple myself, so I hate to see small local businesses punished like this.
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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