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Freedom from TAXES (Marie Callendar's in Victorville, CA)

2009-11-09T14:14:10-08:00

Freedom Law School Seminar w/dinner

Marie Callendar's
12180 Mariposa Rd
Victorville , CA 92395

Saturday, November 14
5pm-8pm

Dinner will be from 5-6pm
Seminar will be from 6-8pm

$35 per person
$55 per couple

Riverside, CA Joins Tea Parties Against Illegal Immigration

2009-11-09T08:34:49-08:00

Riverside, CA Joins Tea Parties Against Illegal Immigration

Posted by ALIPAC on November, 2009

Riverside, CA Joins Tea Parties Against Illegal Immigration.

The protest against illegal immigration and Obama's amnesty plans will be held on Saturday November 14, 2009 at 12 Noon - 2pm in Fairmount Park, 2601 Fairmount Blvd, Riverside, CA 92501.

Please spread the word, make plans to show up, and register to show your support nationally at www.AgainstAmnesty.com

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City wants your input on survey about Strategic Vision for Riverside (Riverside, CA BE A PART OF IT!)

2009-11-08T02:15:51-08:00

Dear City of Riverside Stakeholder:

The City of Riverside � authorized by City Council and guided by a steering committee of civic leaders - is developing an economic development strategic vision for the future of our community. As we do so, we are inviting input from individuals and organizations that will play a role in making the vision a reality.

We would like you to share your ideas by completing this short survey. It takes only a few minutes to complete questions! http://survey.riversideca.gov/default.aspx

We also ask you to forward this email on to others in your organization or other Riverside stakeholders. Please act now because the survey will close very soon. All surveys must be completed by noon on Thursday, November 12, 2009.

There is a no limit to the number of responses we can receive and all responses will be anonymous and combined with the thoughts, hopes and dreams of others.

Thank you for your valuable input.

Click here to access the survey: http://survey.riversideca.gov/default.aspx

Sincerely,

Tricia Hinckley

Economic Development Manager

City of Riverside

POSTER NOTE: I copied the above text from an email received

ALL Closet Racists

2009-11-07T21:35:00-08:00

A message to all closet racists...You smell much worse than others.

ALL PRIVATE BUSINESSES (EVERYWHERE)

2009-11-07T18:07:25-08:00

"E-VERIFY ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!!

Car detailing? (IE)

2009-11-07T14:12:54-08:00

If you need your car detailed give me a call 951-367-4014

Re: Deja Vu again (America)

2009-11-07T08:00:19-08:00

Yea, you are prob. right, I know that's very possible since I recently drilled a well from my home in CA to Japan where I am slowly siphoning off soy sauce to sell on the black market. I am being real careful though, keeping an eye out for those black helicopters. I mean dude, think about this for a min. ...in order for your huge multilevel conspiracy theory that involves several countries to be pulled off, it would have to be tens of thousands of people involved, not just high level security cleared people either. Just average joe's. From the literally thousands of people that witnessed planes hitting the twin towers, not talking about TV, but the people that were in the streets watching this happen, to the numerous eye witnesses that watched the plane crash into the pentagon, they are all nuts right? OK, how about all the oil field workers that were slant drilling from Kwuait to Iraq? They are all going to keep their mouth shut right? And just how far were they slant drilling into rock? 50 miles, 100 miles? Hell, even 5 miles....do you have a concept of the logistics it takes, the equipment it takes and the scale of an operation it would take to just slant drill 20 miles? so these wacko conspiracies like the govt. got rid of the one planes and replaced them with other planes and crashed them into the world trade center just don't work, they are so full of holes there is just no way. Now, the conspiracy theory might be able to work on that one if you said the govt. knew all about it and allowed it to happen. Kinda like the theories about Pearl Harbor. Do I believe in conspiracies? Hell, yes I do. The dems are conspiring to take away your second ammendment rights. That's a plain fact. There's actual evidence all over the place that that is the truth. Hell, they will even openly admit that that is their plan. UFO's ....there's over 1 million UFO reports filed around the world each year...it's estimated that only one in 100 people that see a UFO report it, so that's 100 million people seeing something unidentified flying thru the sky. 100 million pepole can't all be wrong. So there has to be something to it. So is there a coverup on UFO's? yes, there is. It seems that you are a passionate person..and that's a wonderful thing. It seems that you are somewhat of an activist, and since you live in America where u are free to speak your mind and share your oppinions, that's a wonderful thing. It would be great if you could lose the far fetched extremly unlikely viewpoints and focus your energy on something real. How about the illegal alien issue? You realize there are more employed illegal aliens in CA than unemployed legal citizens? You realize that when you see a mexican, tht they are 3x more likely to be an illegal alien than to be an american citizen? do you realize that every year the total of illegal aliens entering CA is a larger number of people than any army that has ever envaded another country on the planet earth in history? so lets say you still believe what you are saying...does it have as big of an impact on you as illegal aliens? NO. or lets say medical marijuana...it doesn't matter if you believe in medical marijuana or not, what matters is the people voted and the law is you can legally have marijuana for medical purposes. You have local politicans at the city level all over so. Ca, Temecula, Riverside, Yuciapa and others that rapidly change there city charters and city planning to outlaw dispensaries within their cities. Thereby denying people access to what is legally medicine. Intentionally creating a sitution where in order to legally use what they are intitled to, they have to be criminals. Intenionally creating a situation that is profitable to gangs, and drug dealers. And it promotes crime within their community. does this have an effect on your day to day life? Rather you realize it or not, yes it does. And what is next? do they outlaw Jews? Blacks? your gun? These are things you can actually do something about before its too late. War is the nature of man. its pitiful, I have been there and seen it first hand. But it's been that way since the beg. of time and prob. will be until the end of time. The only way to affect change on a large scale is cumulatively by changing the small things first. If you get your city in line, then it's easier to get the county in line, if you get your counties in line, its eaiser to get your state in line and so forth. Every army starts with one man.Just some things to think about, have a nice day.

Your Tax Money Wasted

2009-11-06T18:46:44-08:00

The article below shows how Riverside County (and San Bernardino too) are spending your tax dollars ON HARASSING SEVERELY ILL PEOPLE. It is worth reading.

TEMECULA: Charges dismissed in medical marijuana case

Judge finds Temecula man tried to run 'legitimate collective'

By TERI FIGUEROA - tfigueroa@californian.com
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 8:05 pm
A Temecula man cried Wednesday after a judge dismissed criminal charges
accusing him of trying to game the state's medical marijuana laws with a
collective garden the man ran from his home.

"They are attempting to operate as a legitimate collective," Riverside
Superior Court Judge Mark Mandio said at the end of a key pretrial
hearing in his French Valley courtroom. "That is how I view the
evidence."

In dismissing the case against Martin Jay Victor, Mandio also said vague
state laws governing medical marijuana put "law enforcement and patients
in an untenable position."

As he listened to the judge toss the case, Victor hugged his attorney,
Zenia Gilg, and then pressed his hands to his face. Victor's wife,
seated in a wheelchair, embraced a female friend and cried.

When the hearing ended, Victor hugged his wife for a long moment as they
both cried.

"It's over," a teary-eyed Victor said, leaning on his cane as he left
the courtroom.

After spilling out into the courthouse hallway, some of the couple's
supporters, including members of the collective, let out cheers of
"Yes!"

Prosecutors had charged 57-year-old Victor with illegally cultivating
marijuana and possessing it with the intent to sell. Investigators said
Victor possessed more marijuana than legally permissible and questioned
whether Victor was gaming the system.

Victor argued through his attorney that the marijuana garden and its
harvest were done in line with state laws as well as guidelines laid out
by California Attorney General Jerry Brown in August 2008.

Mandio's finding that there was insufficient evidence in the case came
at the end of a preliminary hearing, at which prosecutors must show that
enough evidence exists to force a defendant to stand trial.

Defense attorney Gilg said she was "thrilled" by the ruling.

"I think the judge did the right thing," Gilg said.

Deputy District Attorney Greg Garrison, who prosecuted the case,
declined to comment.

In September 2008, acting on a complaint, Temecula police raided the
home of Martin and LaVonne Victor, seizing more than 70 plants as well
as what police said was 5 pounds of already harvested marijuana.

During the raid, the couple reportedly showed officers their medical
marijuana cards and provided photocopies of cards for 10 members of the
cooperative. According to testimony, the couple also kept detailed
ledgers that included how much money each member had put into the
collective, as well as receipts for expenditures for soil and garden
equipment.

Collective member Lanny Swerdlow testified that everyone in the group
not only supported the garden with money, but also with time, getting
their hands dirty in the cultivation process.

Mandio found that the amount of plants as well as harvested marijuana at
the Victors' home were in line with the amount permissible for the
collective under the state's medical marijuana laws.

Victor has been diagnosed with optical edema, a swelling of the eyes'
optic nerve.

His wife, LaVonne, suffers from multiple sclerosis and panic attacks.
Victor said he is also a caretaker for his 82-year-old mother, a cancer
survivor who uses a walker, and that she is also a member of the
collective. The frail-looking woman embraced her son after the hearing.

In making his ruling, Mandio said the statutes put law enforcement and
legitimate medical marijuana patients at risk because there is no
licensing agency to which patients can report how much they are growing,
what they are harvesting and how much they are allowed to have.
Likewise, the judge said, law enforcement officers could go to such an
agency to find out just who is growing what and how much.

"We will continue to be in this position ... until the Legislature
clarifies the statutes, or better yet, creates such a licensing agency,"
Mandio said.

Aside from the now-dismissed criminal case Victor had faced, eight
members of the collective sued the Sheriff's Department and the city of
Temecula last month, arguing that authorities "unlawfully" seized their
share of the marijuana.

Riverside Mayor write-in results (politics)

2009-11-06T17:00:57-08:00

CONSOLIDATED UNIFORM DISTRICT ELECTION LAW (UDEL) ELECTION
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
SEMI-OFFICIAL TALLY RESULTS OF QUALIFIED WRITE-IN CANDIDATES
November 6, 2009
CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF PALM SPRINGS
WILLIE JAMES HOLLAND, SR. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 3

MAYOR, CITY OF RIVERSIDE
KENNETH L. STANSBURY -------------------------------------------------------------------- 58
TROY KENT---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14

http://www.election.co.riverside.ca.us/docs/Semi-OfficialWriteInResults_6NOV09_.pdf

Deja Vu (facts)

2009-11-06T16:34:15-08:00

Kuwait was slant drilling into Iraqi oil deposits. Just because the oil companies want to secure their pipeline does not mean that we would get free oil. It means that some politicians' pockets get lined. Like you said, the facts are the facts. We sold bio and other "weapons of mass destruction" to Saddam and helped place him in power to begin with. Karzai should take note of how we treat our puppets. Anyway, these are not the facts you will see broadcast on the "liberal media" as you put it. But none the less, they are valid.

re re re: deja vu to a solider - (america)

2009-11-06T16:32:27-08:00

Coward.
Watch the movie you lazy, ignorant ass.

RERE: RE: RE: Deja Vu All Over Again (earth)

2009-11-06T16:22:13-08:00

The free oil is for the oil companies. NOT FOR US. That means that we pay for you to fight and die for the oil companies and then they turn around and gouge us for even more at the pumps. Yes, we are that stupid and yes, that is exactly how our economic system works. And don't think it is just about Afghan or Iraqi oil. Our military bases in those countries are strategically located to take or defend oil from many other countries.

re re re: deja vu to a solider (america)

2009-11-06T16:12:40-08:00

Dude, never mind, you are too stupid to talk to. No matter how clear the facts are, you don't want to believe it. you want to believe there was some big conspiracy. You want to belive that america is bad and that all honorable men in this country are bad. anyone stupid enough to believe that our govt. attacked America, is a complete f'in idiot. I truely don't believe psychiatic help would be of use to you because it's stupid, not crazy. Next you are going to tell me that you wear the Alum. foil hat so they can't control your brain and that they are watching your house with their big black helicopters. Don't forget, you have to look for them because they are silent. But look real hard, because they are almost invisible too. But they do have something to help you, and luckily it's inexpensive. You can buy it at any good sporting goods store for anywhere from $15-30 per box. Take one and don't call anyone in the morning.

RE: RE: RE: Deja Vu All Over Again (earth)

2009-11-06T16:04:51-08:00

ok, I am going to act like you are intelligent. Let's look at it from your point of view..we are over there just for oil...It took us just a few days to totally kick their ass, did we start shipping billions of gallons of free oil to america? NO. We have been there quite awhile, we are obviously in control, have we started shipping free oil to America? NO. The trillions and trillions of gallons of oil in the ground over there would cure all of our economic problems in America. Are we shipping all of that free oil? NO. I don't know, maybe you aren't old enough to remember how it started this time...a small country that was a ally of America was attacked and over run. Not only was their joke of a military destroyed, but citizens were getting butchered in the streets, oil fields were being blown up and lit on fire causing one of the worst environmental disasters ever. That was Kwuait, it started that we went and kicked their ass out of Kwuait. They had been threatening us for many years, randomly launching missles at other countries including Isreal and others and bragging about their weapons of mass destruction. So like the dogs that they are, we chased their ass all the way home. We made agreements for unlimited inspections by not only Americans but multi national groups to keep tabs on their nuclear development and chemical and biological weapons development. They didn't abide by these, we would have an agreement to inspect on Friday and sattelitte images would show images of convoys of trucks moving things out of those facilities all week. So what should we do? You have a country that teaches hatered towards america in school from a very young age, that not only supports terrorism but provides funding and training for terrorists against america and violates every agreement for inspection. Should we provide them with materials or go in and prevent them from getting even further along with their ultimate goal of destroying america?What you don't understand is that these people hate you, I know it seems stupid and I know that most people believe that people are genuinely good at heart, but you don't get it in your sheltered little world. Many people in these countries believe its an honor to die killing you. They don't mind that the world trade center was attacked, killing men, women and children. Killing an American child is just as good as killing an american man. I can't stress enough that these people are not like you and me. They are extremist. They hate you enough to put a bomb in their baby carriage with their baby and feel good about blowing you up. It doesn't matter that they blew up themselves or their baby, it just matters that they have killed you. I know it's very hard for someone who has never seen something like that to have the slightest grasp on the fact that someone could do that. Yes, we could walk out today, and bring all of our troops home, and tommorow would prob. not be a worse day but it wouldn't be long before America and several other countries would once again be under attack. I know the liberal media tells you that "we went for oil" and my question is like all people w/intelligence...."where is the oil?" We didn't make money off of going to war, it is costing us money. We are not shipping free oil to america, it isn't happening. Look at the facts, and you will see that you have been duped by a bunch of liberal crackheads. The facts are the facts, all you have to do is look at the facts. We can do any damn thing we want over there and we have no free oil, Exxon , Arco is getting no free oil.

Re: RE: Deja Vu ... (to a soldier)

2009-11-06T15:56:33-08:00

You asked, "is it not better to kill a few and save thousands or and literally hundreds of thousands in the long run?"

It is better to not kill. Einstein told us that the pioneers of a warless world were the youth that refused military service. Are you calling him an ignorant idiot too? Furthermore, your assumption that "hundreds of thousands" would die is just that, as assumption.

You asked, "Should we just pack up and leave afghanistan , are you willing to give my child's life to the next terrorist attack?"

Yes, as the man said, "we just marched in, we can just march out."

You are operating under a couple of serious misconceptions. First, you haven't defended anybody's freedom or life back here in good ole US of A. I know that is a hard pill to swallow but it's the truth. If you haven't heard by now then let me tell you, 9-11 wan an inside job! What caused building 7 to fall when it wasn't hit by an airplane and what happened to the fuselage and wings and multi-ton engines of the plane that hit the pentagon? You owe it to your honor and to your country to know the truth about that. I suggest taking an evening and reading up on http://www.ae911truth.org/ (which is a group of architects and engineers that question the "official story") or watch one of the many excellent movies about 9-11 truth such as "Loose Change", which are available for free online.

We've never been invaded and if we were, we (as yet) still have the right to bear arms. The war you fought was never, ever, ever about our freedom or even Iraqi or Afghani freedom. The only thing war does is destroy freedom and privacy. We've lost more to the enemies at home while you were off chasing ghosts than any country without either air-force or navy could ever hope to accomplish. It will be difficult for you to accept this and for that pain I am truly sorry. However, your country still needs you but they need you to know that your true enemy is not in the middle east.

You said:

...rather you agree with the war or not, if you don't support our troops themselves, the world would truely be a better place if you had the guts to put a bullett in your own head.

Let us hope that from the mind that emits this kind of passionate hate that there is an equal passion to know the truth about what your brave brothers and sisters are fighting and dying for. You don't have a problem telling others to be "men", well now it's your turn. May you have the strength of character it takes to weigh the evidence honestly as it will shake the very foundation of your understanding about your government.

Best wishes.

http://www.wanttoknow.info/060407bestdocumentary9-11

RE: RE: Deja Vu All Over Again?

2009-11-06T14:55:35-08:00

Our country does all those things too. And we didn't invade either of those nations to save their people. We did it for the oil companies. That's right, you served for profit, not people. This country will be a lot better off when people like you understand that and get pissed off about it.

RE: Deja Vu All Over Again?

2009-11-06T14:39:04-08:00

WOW, you are truely ignorant enough to be serious. As a vet, that has been wounded, and nearly paid the ultimate price for your freedom, I find it sometimes very very hard to accept the fact that the ignorant have those freedoms. Have you ever been to either of these countries? Makes me sick that the media is so liberal in this country that they won't show you the truth. We are talking about governments that would test weapons on villages of their own people. Not people that had done anything wrong, just people going along with their normal everyday life and then the next thing they know, they are exposed to biological weapons or chemical weapons. They would recieve no treatment , they would not even recieve a mercy killing, they would just be left to die a slow horrid painful death...men..women and children. We are talking about a government that openly supported terrorism against the united states. We are talking about governments that not only provide a financial support but training and weapons to terrorists.You talk about innocent people being killed...in this entire effort, less innocent people have been killed than that governemnt murdered in a month. Are you too blind to see that? Is it not better to kill a few and save thousands or and literally hundreds of thousands in the long run? Should we just pack up and leave afghanistan , are you willing to give my child's life to the next terrorist attack? I am not willing to give yours. I know you have all the inside infor and have access to all the top secret files and know more about it than the people in charge. Oh wait, you mean u dont? You mean u are just an igrnorant fool? spouting off about shit that you truely know nothing about?Blaming the people that are willing to fight for your freedoms, blaming the people who support americans that are willing to fight for your freedom? rather you agree with the war or not, if you don't support our troops themselves, the world would truely be a better place if you had the guts to put a bullett in your own head. no doubt you are one of two things....you are either young enought that you should be on active military duty now or old enought that you were a coward draft doger from vietnam. prob. the later.still trying to justify that fact that you prob. murdered an american. someone had to take a draft dogers place, rather that person was a casuality or not, we will never know. But what we do know is they were man enuf to serve their country.

Re: Are all Whites Racist Or Just some

2009-11-06T14:16:12-08:00

The person who posted this racist accusation is obviously unable to see past his own prejudice. He fits squarely into at least one if not both of the following two categories.

1. He is a racist and so assumes that everyone else must be too. Since he hates his own moral shortcoming he feels he has to lash out at others as a displaced form of atonement.

2. He is so well indoctrinated that he can only regurgitate what he hears in class and on TV and therefore cannot fathom that immigration issues are not necessarily based on racial prejudices.

So we should forgive him, it's not his fault that he is unable to reason. He is just a product of his environment. However, we must not let this misguided detractor lead us astray. So often, and especially since we landed our half-white president, we see the racial card being played in response to any number of divisive issues. To accuse someone of being motivated by racism relieves the accuser of the uncomfortable responsibility of actually addressing the issue at hand. We, as non-racists, should never accept this weak minded type of rebuttal. It's a real shame that our poster is unable to address the actual issue but it shouldn't distract the rest of us from following a reasonable line of debate.

Deja Vu All Over Again?

2009-11-06T13:29:41-08:00

Karen and Laurence, this latest example of a �lone shooter� reminds me of an oddly-similar situation from some 2 years ago, that of the supposed suicide of Colonel Ted Westhusing. It strikes me as rather coincidental as well that Major Hasan was, like Colonel Westhusing, well-educated and high-ranking. Neither of these men could accurately be categorized as an uninformed-grunt-acting-out, as was the initial party line for the torturers at Abu Ghraib. The only difference is that Westhusing killed only himself, while Hasan apparently figured he would take a few others with him. (Yes, I realize Hasan is not dead, but I�d figure that anyone who starts shooting on an army based isn�t really planning for a long vacation afterwards!)

Amid all the shock, and certainly shock is warranted, I, like so many here, wonder if seemingly obvious questions about not only this event, but the totality of military action such as that in Afghanistan and Iraq, will be asked. How can our society remain ignorant of the fact that statist violence is only capable of generating evil? The expansion of violence cannot provide a logical remedy for the failure of violence. Killing people to illustrate that killing people is wrong doesn�t work.

Who killed these victims, and Westhusing, and Tillman, and so many others, including so many innocents in Iraq and Afghanistan? I submit that it was not Hasan or men like him, not really. With apologies for not being more creative, I�ll just paraphrase myself from that previous essay in answer.

Every person who displays a �support the troops� magnet on their car killed him. Every person who stands around the water cooler (or posts on �the internets�) about the desperate need for Amerikan intervention to stop the spread of heinous �Islamo-Fascists� killed him. Every school official who allows the U.S. military to recruit new killers-for-hire on school grounds killed him. Every person who is not absolutely certain that a standing army has no purpose but aggression and imperialism killed him. He pulled the trigger, but someone else loaded the bullet. When one allows active-duty-dodging chickenhawks to determine the foreign policy of the U.S. he cocks the gun. I am certain that no one wants to die in a terrorist bombing. I am equally sure no one wants to die from a bomb dropped because they live in a place from whence terrorists supposedly come.

At what point will these types of events bring significant discussion�not just among crazy anarchists and other supposedly-Utopian freedom-lovers, but from the general populace�about why such actions as invading Iraq have can have no positive outcome?

Wilton Ashton

Re: Racist (America)

2009-11-06T13:05:50-08:00

OH MY GOD!!!! could you possibly be calling me a racist? The guy that just told you he would fight side by side with you if you would just act like a man. I don't know how non-racist a person could possibly be. It must be that you are one of those cowards and you are trying to find a way to make yourself feel like you are not. Instead of being the one to stand up and be a man. That's ok, courage doesn't come easy to anyone. When I went into the military and got dropped into a war zone, I was afraid, like everyone else. When i got shot, it hurt and I was afraid I was going to die. But that's ok, I just acted like a man and got through it. I didn't run away, I didn't desert my country, I stood up like a man and fought for it, even though I was afraid. You just need to do the same thing brother. I am on your team. I am not racist, I want to help you. No one should live a shameful life. No one should let his fears keep him from being a man. You truely have the opportunity to be your country's George Washington or Abe Lincoln. If you are man enough, I support you in that, if you are not man enough, then you should go hide under your bed like a little bitch. But racist---NO! I believe you are man enough, I want every mexican for thousands of years to know your name...to think of you as a great man..the hero that led them to prosperity. So what are you going to do....sit and whine and call the people that are on your team names because you are a coward or you going to stand up like a man and lead your people to freedom. the Choice is yours......

Are all Whites Racist Or Just some.

2009-11-06T12:47:26-08:00

Actually most are not except the biggot this is about.
I wonder if he's been listening to Gestapo-junk radio too? There's no reason to become an angry clown you know.

Are all Mexicans cowards or just most? (America)

2009-11-06T12:20:42-08:00

A very short time ago, in a country real close...there were a bunch of men, women and children. They started a place called America. They were oppressed, unfairly taxed, had limited jobs, often lived in mud huts or shacks they had built out of trees that they had cut down on the land. Did they sneak off into some other country illegally? Play that country's system for welfare, free medical care, free schools, nooooooooo. No, these were real men. They got together and said "hey, let's stand up and fight." They had a war against a country that not only had the biggest army in the world but also the biggest Navy in the world. Alot of them gave their lives, not only men, but even some women and children too. But in the end, they had a free country. Something they could have pride in. Something they could build and call their own. and they prospered. so much so, that people from all around the world wanted to live in America. They filed their paperwork, sometimes waiting for years...they saved their money, most of them studied english and when the time came, they moved to America. We took great pride in becoming american citizens.

So my question is: why aren't the mexican people man enough to stand up to end the oppression in their country to work hard to make it a great place, a place they can be proud of, a place that the world would envy. There is tremendous oil and gold reserves in Mexico, the coastlines are beautiful, there's fertile farm lands, everything that is needed to make it a productive successful country. It certainly seems that the only thing missing are men of courage, men that are willing to band together, stand up and fight for their country. Instead they sneak across the border illegally into America, sometimes abandoning their family in Mexico. do you realize the number of illegal aliens just in CA alone, is bigger than any army on the planet? do you realize what percentage just these illegal aliens would out number all of Mexico's military/police/government officials by? How much better would it be to have Americans fight by your side to help you better your life then to have Americans hate you for your trying to destroy their lives? How much better would it be to be a productive member of society in mexico then to be a blight on society in america? All it takes is courage. All you have to do is stand up like a real man and make the world a better place for all mexicans. It truely takes one person to be man enought to stand up and lead and it grows from there. Surely there's a man amongst you, surely someone has the courage and pride to make Mexico the great country that it should be, surely not all mexicans are cowards. Go home...be men...fight for a better mexico, give your children, your grand children and all the generations to come a reason to be proud of you, instead of thinking you were just a cockroach illegal alien, hell, be a man and start it and I will be happy to fight along side of you for your freedom. It's a simple deal, act like a man and americans will treat you like men, act like a cockroach and americans will keep treating you like cockroaches.

Government Paid Killers (Here and Abroad)

2009-11-06T09:22:02-08:00

What a shame that Amerians are outraged about a soldier who goes on a killing spree in this country but cheer on soldiers who kill in Afghanistan because they are �defending our freedoms� and �keeping us safe from terrorists.� The truth, of course, is that the global war on terror is destroying our freedoms and creating terrorists.

re: joe and jose

2009-11-06T08:56:13-08:00

Omigosh! What if "Joe" is illegal and Jose is not?

Oh no! According to your master plan, Jose can't be a citizen at all!

If you post more on Craigslist, who knows you might actually a few more Nazis all the way from Europe to come to your next rally.

Joe & Jose (America)

2009-11-06T08:16:32-08:00

The way the government is ripping off Joe it seems like it's time for him to withdraw his consent and start working under the table.

This is in response to http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pol/1453689632.html

Dec 4 Friday Morning Club will meet at the Western Municapal Water Dst (Mission Grove Blvd at Alessandro, Riv.)

2009-11-06T03:53:26-08:00

Friday Morning Club will NOT BE MEETING at Janet Goeske Center on December 4, 2009 10 a.m.

Instead the Friday Morning Club will MEET AT the Western Municipal Water District so we may tour their "Landscapes Southern California Style sm" Garden below at 10:00 a.m. to learn about drought tolerant gardens and native plantings, and will be conducted on a tour around the demonstration gardens where we may view over 200 plants.

We are asking that you sign up in advance so we will have an idea who might be joining us. It is FREE to go, FREE parking. Educating ourselves as to what is possible and available in drought tolerant plants, can go a long way to saving water and toward educating others about the demonstration garden, and changing the status quo where gardens are thought of as grass and a tree.

While the address of Western Municipal Water District is 450 E. Alessandro Boulevard, at the Corner of Mission Grove Blvd, in Riverside, the entrance to the facilities are actually on MISSION GROVE PARKWAY.

Garden Facts:

1 acre, 250+ plants, 50 education stations, open to the public 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; closed holidays. 450 E Alessandro Blvd., Riverside, California 951.789.5036 Free admittance

Again the purpose of the tour is to learn about waterwise landscaping, about the 200 or so plants, and hopefully about local native plants/that are animal/bird/butterfly friendly as well. Learn more here http://www.wmwd.com/landscape.htm

For those unable to visit the garden there is a virtual tour wherein you can learn about water-conserving niche gardens. These include Oriental niche, Fire-wise landscape, Perennial border, Southwest Landscape, Cottage garden, Woodlands walkway and Herb garden.

The Native Night Presentation listed on the website above page is wonderful but you need to download it to see it. About 165 pgs of garden shots/with annotations. Gorgeous, interesting.
Invaluable resource! It is a .pdf file which takes a while to download. http://www.wmwd.com/pdfs/NativeNightsPresentation_080609_web.pdf

Western is very pleased to provide a handy and informative resource - Guide to Landscape Water Conservation in western Riverside County. Within the booklet's 20 pages, you�ll discover tips on water-efficient landscaping and details about many of the plants you�ll find in the garden. Pick up your FREE copy at Landscapes Southern California Style sv, Western's one-acre, water conservation education garden. For a list of Western's "Water-wise 140", the top picks of water-wise plants mentioned in the booklet, just click the art. The garden is open seven days a week, except major holidays, and is free. It's located at Western's headquarters, 450 E. Alessandro Boulevard in Riverside. Again the ENTRANCE is around the corner on Mission Grove Parkway.

Water-wise Seminars and Events
Western regularly hosts and presents water-wise landscape seminars and events in the water conservation center. For a current calendar of events http://www.wmwd.com/calendar.htm EX: Native Plant Sale, California Native Plant Society, Saturday, Nov. 14 � 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., WMWD Headquarters/Landscapes Southern California Style SM

Useful blogs or websites

� Five Before Midnight blog http://rivercitycopwatch.blogspot.com
� Riding in Riverside http://ridinginriverside.blogspot.com
� Riverside City Council Agenda http://www.riversideca.gov/city_clerk/agenda.asp
� Watch City Council meetings online http://65.49.32.146/ppportal/agenda/webcast.aspx
� Save Riverside Chinatown http://saveourchinatown.org
� IE CL Politics http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pol/

Friday Morning Club meetings, blogs, city websites, and Council Email Addresses

�After the Dec 4 meeting at the Garden the Friday Morning Club will again resume meeting at the Janet Goeske Center on December 11.

� Dec 11 Friday Morning Club speaker is FRANK ROBLES, candidate for Riverside County Sheriff http://robles4sheriff.com

� Dec 18 Friday Morning Club attendees discuss City Agenda Items/issues/ City Charter Next meeting Jan 8

� Dec 25 Friday Morning Club WILL NOT be meeting today, as it is the Christmas Holiday

� Jan 1 Friday Morning Club WILL NOT be meeting today, as it is New Years day.

� Jan 8 Friday Morning Club attendees discuss City Council agenda/City Issues. No Speaker.

� Jan 15 Friday Morning Club Speaker to be determined

� Jan 22 Friday Morning Club Speaker to be determined

� Jan 29 Friday Morning Club speaker DOUGLAS McCULLOH photographer, true story birth of DREAM STREET suburb in S.B. http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pol/1443776877.html

Voice your opinions on on the RIVERSIDE MAIN LIBRARY via email to all below�.
Email Addresses for City Council, Mayor, City Clerk (send it for the RECORD at the next CC meeting)

mgardner @ riversideca.gov, asmelendrez @ riversideca.gov, rbailey @ riversideca.gov,
pdavis @ riversideca.gov, cmacarthur @ riversideca.gov, nhart @ riversideca.gov, sadams @ riversideca.gov, rloveridge @ riversideca.gov, city_clerk @ riversideca.gov

Friday Morning Club

meets every Friday from 10:00 to 11:30 AM in Room D of the Janet Goeske Senior/Disabled Cente (EXCEPT FOR DEC 4 as noted above], 5257 Sierra Street (corner of Streeter Avenue), Riverside to listen to the speaker, discuss Riverside Council Agenda items or other matters of concern to Riverside residents. All are welcome to attend these meetings at any time (free). Free parking. Karen 204. 3252 or at the above email

Riverside Main Library, learn what is happening (Riverside do NOT build in place.)

2009-11-06T01:08:49-08:00

Click here to see all earlier posts, still up, that discuss the issue of the Riverside Main Library.
http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/search/pol?query=Riverside+Main+Library&catAbbreviation=pol

The cost to build in place is exorbitant, you might call it a contractor/developers/other construction company bail out/make work plan because they will get about 1/2 the money. That money is NOT going into the building, it is walking out the door.

We lack COMMON SENSE in City Hall.

We are letting the tail (Brad Hudson/Wendell Tucker) wag the dog.

Both of those men have good points, but knowledgable building design is NOT one of their skills.

Nov 16 5 pm PUBLIC MEETING about Riverside Main Library replacement (Arlington Library,9556 Magnolia Ave. Riv)

2009-11-06T01:03:39-08:00

� Nov 16 5:00 p.m. Board of Library Trustees Public Meeting, regarding Architectural Design of the RIVERSIDE MAIN LIBRARY, Arlington Library, 9556 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside. Meeting structure: Architects Presentation, Public Informal Questions with Architects, Formal Public Comment, and Board Comments and Actions.
For more info
http://renewthelibrary.org
http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pol/1438759595.html

Please attend this meeting and let them know you want the planning for rebuilding the Riverside Main Library IN PLACE STOPPED NOW, as it will result in a Library that is TOO small, with inadequate parking (only 82 spaces, and not all for the library) and too costly. Approximately HALF of the $42 to $60 million that this will cost, will NOT go into the library, but will go into costs of building it in place and outfitting and leasing temporary space /parking. Also we lose 60,000 square feet of space -- the existing library -- that could be used as the expansion space the Museum needs and/or for arts or other purposes

See more comments on this topic below.

Spending billions on the backs of Riverside citizens and burdening them with debt, and allowing the NEW MAIN LIBRARY to be pushed through WITH NO consideration of the costs, or that it will NOT meet the needs of all the citizens (too small at 100,000 gross sf) when completed and will have inadequate parking (82 spaces but not all of those for the library) for an exorbitant cost of around $40 to 60 million when the value added that will received amounts to ONLY an extra 40,000 sf. Therefore the cost to the citizens for each added 1,000 sf is around $1 to $1.5 million. That is a very steep price to pay, particularly when it will be inadequate/outdated even BEFORE it is built.

For that same money or even LESS MONEY, Riverside Citizens could have a 208,000 gross sf library and adequate parking for into the future. (208,000 gross sf is WHAT RENEW THE LIBRARY SAID WE NEED and I AGREE) that would be WORLD CLASS and could be a VISIONARY place for arts and culture. To build this facility TWICE AS LARGE, would cost LESS than to redo the Riverside Main Library in place. If you worked toward this vision, perhaps they would name the Library after you; if you used your influence to do the right thing regarding the library, ie build it at some new location, AS YOU WOULD HAVE KEPT YOUR WORD ABOUT HAVING VISION and BUILDING WORLD CLASS FACILITIES. (see prior post for more discussions about this option, possible locations where it could be built, or you suggest a location.

We need Riverside City Council and Riverside's Mayor to do the right thing (e.g. build the Riverside Main Library at another location where it can be built the RIGHT SIZE 208,000 gross s.f. and with adequate parking of a few hundred or more. Currently rather than listening to COMMON SENSE, the Council is cowtowing to political donors and to the various political powerhouses, and to the WISHERS OF BRAD HUDSON to have a New Main Library no larger than 100,000 gross s.f.. That is odd, I thought Brad worked for us, instead he is DICTATING what should happen. It would take courage for the Council and Mayor to stand up and do the right thing for the citizens of Riverside, and against special interests.

DO NOT GO WITH BRADS PLANS of rebuilding in place to get 100,000 sq feet. Will what happens in Riverside be dictated by Brad Hudson who said we could not have a library larger than 100,000 sf (For Brad's proposal to build in place ABOUT HALF THE MONEY WILL FILE OUT THE WINDOW. Only about Half the money will be used for the actual NEW MAIN LIBRARY BUILDING. The money blowing in the wind will go for other services and lease rents of temporary space, and buildouts of temporary space, movers and the like. Essentially you will be blowing millions of dollars of hard earned tax dollars into the wind, as it WILL NOT BE PUT INTO the building.

If the inplace 100,000 sf library is built the SITTING RIVERSIDE CITY COUNCIL WILL be remembered as having a "big vision" of less than 82 spaces for the Riverside Main Library in Riverside a city that is City that is approaching 1/2 million, that's 500,000 population? And a BIG vision of an inadequately sized 100,000 sf library that doesn't come close to the real needs for now and for the next 2o, 30 or 40 years as we grow and our population meets and exceeds 500,000. (it seems like lots of numbers from very small towns were averaged in to shrink the size of library recommended, when libraries in towns with the same population and half million or more poppulations should have been blended together.)

Currently many Riverside citizens DO NOT ATTEND functions because of the lack of parking. Remember if the Library is rebuilt in place, the LEGACY OF THE CURRENT RIVERSIDE CITY COUNCIL and MAYOR will be WASTING Riverside tax dollars on a Main Library that is TOO SMALL with GROSSLY INADEQUATE PARKING -- but that may benefit special interest in the downtown, at least that is the way I see it in my mind when I think about why things happen as they do. And while BRAD HUDSON made these bad decisions, the Council and Mayor have gone along with what Brad tells you to do. But the Council is supposed to be overseeing what is happening and THINKING about the consequences of items on the Council agenda, and not just rubber stamping and complimenting everyone.

It seems that the new Main Library is being kept in place, and is being designed to serve the Riverside elite as a meeting place and event location. There is talk of eliminating a perhaps a significant number of books so there will even MORE room for an atrium for the downtown dignitary s (don't know who they are exactly guessing downtown big business/law firms/chamber/Mission Inn/or others) to have various meetings/events there.

But more on that later. Although if you truly care about having a WORLD CLASS LIBRARY you should look into the matter and NOT let Brad Hudson dictate its size, or Wendell Tucker dictate where it will be built. Wendell Tucker IS NOT paying the tab. And the future citizens of Riverside are the ones to suffer from this COUNCIL wasting scarce dollars, a gross waste of dollars, not just a little trickle, but unconscionable waste of the WORST KIND.

Stop the building in place New Main Library, save that building and build the new Library elsewhere -- a MUCH LARGER LIBRARY at half the cost

Rebuilding Riverside Main Library in place is a DUMB and COSTLY idea (As built it will be TOO small, 82 parkin)

2009-11-06T01:00:36-08:00

� Nov 16 5:00 p.m. Board of Library Trustees Public Meeting, regarding Architectural Design of the RIVERSIDE MAIN LIBRARY, Arlington Library, 9556 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside. Meeting structure: Architects Presentation, Public Informal Questions with Architects, Formal Public Comment, and Board Comments and Actions.
For more info
http://renewthelibrary.org

Tell them at that meeting you want the Riverside Main Library built in a new location; Tell them you want it built big enough to serve Riverside now and for the next 30 years or more; That means a New Main Library of 208,000 gross sf at a minimum (not the 100,000 proposed); That means a New Main Library with hundreds of parking spaces (not the less than 82 parking spaces); Tell them that THIS proposal will COST LESS by half than their proposal for the 100,000 sf library.

or that same money or even LESS MONEY, Riverside Citizens could have a 208,000 gross sf library and adequate parking for into the future. (208,000 gross sf is WHAT RENEW THE LIBRARY SAID WE NEED and I AGREE) that would be WORLD CLASS and could be a VISIONARY place for arts and culture. To build this facility TWICE AS LARGE, would cost LESS than to redo the Riverside Main Library in place. If you worked toward this vision, perhaps they would name the Library after you; if you used your influence to do the right thing regarding the library, ie build it at some new location, AS YOU WOULD HAVE KEPT YOUR WORD ABOUT HAVING VISION and BUILDING WORLD CLASS FACILITIES.

We need Riverside City Council and Riverside's Mayor to do the right thing (e.g. build the Riverside Main Library at another location where it can be built the RIGHT SIZE 208,000 gross s.f. and with adequate parking of a few hundred or more. Currently rather than listening to COMMON SENSE, the Council is cowtowing to political donors and to the various political powerhouses, and to the WISHERS OF BRAD HUDSON to have a New Main Library no larger than 100,000 gross s.f.. That is odd, I thought Brad worked for us, instead he is DICTATING what should happen. It would take courage for the Council and Mayor to stand up and do the right thing for the citizens of Riverside, and against special interests.

NOTE: Possible other locations to build the NEW DOWNTOWN LIBRARY have been on the location of
(1) Greyhound/RTA caddy corner from the FOX. It would be very visible at that location, and it may be possible to host some pre Fox performance events .
(2) some folks have suggested somewhere along University Avenue
(3) On the more than acre of land the City of Riverside is assembling next to the Magnolia Grade Crossing. For example most of Center Lumbers land taken by threat of eminent domain will not be used in the Grade Crossing project. and many other adjacent properties were taken as well. This assembled piece may be more than one or two acres after the tiny part needed for the grade crossing is loped off.
(4) Our City behind the scene has been working with Riversides paid reps at the State and at the Federal levels to have THE NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY MOVED OUT OF FAIRMOUNT PARK. I think it should stay, but if it goes -- and they say land is available for the Armory at March Air Force Base, that would be a beautiful location along the street to put the library where the Armory now sits. It could be built with some underground parking and would be a beautiful venue for the library and for other Riverside events
(5) I do not have access to a City wide map, but there may be other ideal sites for the Riverside Main Library.

Also the city needs parking and city parking funds/grants possibly could be used to UNDERGROUND PARKING 2 or more levels of parking UNDER the GREYHOUND/RTA location. That should provide parking for hundreds of cars for use by the Fox, Library, and others as Riverside grows and develops from 300,000 to half a million and beyond in the not to distant future. PLEASE NOTE: The City of Riverside is TAKING 1/2 the parking meter revenue and making it available for use by a downtown group to beautify the downtown or organize events. The downtown businesses already pay a 100% tax to do downtown improvements. When the City Council GAVE AWAY the 400 spaces in the parking lot NEXT TO CITY HALL, they promised verbally at that meeting that the FULL amount of parking meter revenue would be used for more parking. That meter money could help pay for parking for the new library I should think. To make a sweetheart deal to give that money away to downtown business interests is unfair as WE ARE ALL PAYING INTO THOSE METERS.

Also I am not saying don't beautify the existing Main Library building, which is built on piers, so that any wall may be dropped or changed as needed. The existing Main Library Building could be re-purposed as the EXTRA 60,000 + sf space the RIVERSIDE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM NEEDS (but which will never be funded), and would be able to be altered to provide parking for a Smithsonian Museum Vans. Windows could be added, interiors alter, for a relatively modest amount compared to building new spaces AND it sits across from the existing Museum which would be retained. Under this plan they don't have to add space BEHIND the existing museum, and any funds in excess of fixing and updating that building could instead be used for refitting the Riverside Main Library. So the parking area behind the existing museum could be transformed into a garden space for events, and or depending on the landscaping (hollow bricks with grass growing) could serve double duty, part as a parking lot, and part as an event space when needed.

Thereby if you would put your leadership muscle behind this idea, with the SAME MONEY OR LESS, instead of having a white elephant which would be decried when finished and lamented due to the loss of thousands of cherished books and vilified due to the lack of parking space, you could have instead

(1) A WORLD CLASS, light and Airy 208,000 gross square foot space that could support BOTH library events as well as other city events (NOTE THIS WOULD BE DOUBLE THE SPACE OF THE PLANNED LIBRARY, and this would rocket Riverside toward the visions you have been espousing. And due to its proximity to the FOX lots of folks would notice.

(2) hundreds of added parking spaces in the underground garage (I used them for years in sf, underground garages are find) but this would need to be funded by parking money and would help make up for the lost 400 spaces lost, rather than 82 spaces not all for the library

(3) Free up the existing parking spaces at the old main library (82?). These spaces are needed by the museum, but who uses those spaces . . .
One complaint at the existing museum is tht there is no where to SAFELY park buses while children or tour groups come in to see the library. Perhaps this could be addressed in this parking lot area as well.

(4) Re-purpose the old main library as the 60,000 sf of space desperately needed by the Riverside Metropolitan Museum for their exhibits and programs. (and if they someday want to have a new structure built, fine then the old library could be repurposed as an ARTS and CULTURE space or something else)

(5) Keep the existing Riverside Metropolitan Museum (as combine the sf in both building gives the museum the bare minimum space it needs now.) Update the interior and fix the structure as needed, and make changes that the Museum Staff wish, but scrap plans for the addition behind. This keeps the existing structure more historically accurate and lets more light in and retains open space behind that could double BOTH as a garden space and as needed for parking (use those grassy bricks that gives a clean and green fill to the parking area)

THE ABOVE PLANS COULD MEAN

(1) ~300 parking spaces or more rather than 82,

(2) 200,800 gross sf of New Riverside Main Library that could draw TWICE THE AMOUNT of people or more for both library use or for twice the number of meetings/events held at the library including arts and culture events

(2b) If the new main is build at the location of the current greyhound station then the Riverside Redevelopment Agency already holds that land. Perhaps the RTA or RCTC if they hold the other land could be made to make some sort of deal for that as well.

(3) 60,000 gross sf of re-purposed EXHIBIT SPACE needed by the RIVERSIDE METROPOLITAN, that without this PLAN may not be seen for tens of years.. More exhibits could be shown, drawing more people downtown, increasing prestige of Riverside's Museum, puts works that had been in storage on display. (also needs a name, perhaps after someone noted working for the museum)
(4) Open spaces, grass and trees in front of old main library remain, perhaps spruced up, and police use other means to mitigate any homeless issues in this area. Benefits include:

* Citizens groups that have annually used this space for events will still have it to use.
* For the Mission Inn Light show at Xmas there will be more room for citizens to stand and watch the lights and the show.
* Helps our air quality to retain older larger trees which we have been losing at a rapid pace.
* Unitarian Church will not have their light blocked
* Visitors to Riverside can enjoy the historic structures in the area, without the shadow, glares from new glass windows and tall buildings overshadowing the Mission Inn.

(5) Moving Museum artifacts out of one or more storage units into the 60,000 sf. Re-purpose that storage space and/or end lease if there is a lease.

(6)~XX,0000 sf of the current Riverside Metropolitan Museum Space, fixed up and cleaned up as needed, now lighter and more historically accurate as the is no need for the odd addition to the rear.

(5) Behind the Riverside Metropolitan museum a NEW Garden area, part of which doubles as a GRASS BRICK parking areas for events, shich could be used for Museum events. This is GREEN as it provides a bit of space for plants and air, and breaks up the look of concrete/asphalt and adds ELEGANCE to the downtown.
the current museum space.

Will you fight to make a NEW VISIONARY WORLD CLASS LIBRARY and all that goes with it above? This will move you SIGNIFICANTLY forward on your ARTS and CULTURE goals because you have 260,000 gross sf of space rather than 100,000 gross sf of space.

PLEASE NOTE: The above 260,000 gross sf of space will cost the city no more or LESS than the current plans for a too small 100,000 gross sf Library.

TShirts & banners for your political events (IE)

2009-11-05T23:58:32-08:00

I have a small business doing tshirts and banners. I am willing to give large discounts to groups if I agree with your side of the issues. Respond to this posting with info. on how i can be of some help, which issue you are involved with, and which side of the issue your organization is on.

DID YOU KNOW THIS? (U.S.A.)

2009-11-05T23:20:31-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28

December 13, 2009 California Candidates Fair (Riverside County, CA)

2009-11-05T23:20:05-08:00

I am helping with the Clayton for Congress campaign. One of our volunteers is spearheading a huge event to help Clay get his name out into the public. He is running against Mary Bono-Mack for her 45th Congressional District seat in Riverside County, CA. Clayton is a Constitutional candidate who is not happy that the current administration is dismantling our beloved Constitution and trying to socialize our country. Clayton is an ethical, honest and decent man and will fight to take our country back from those who would destroy it. All of you Mary Bono-Mack voters, please vote for Clayton Thibodeau for Congress and bring integrity into the Whitehouse.

December 13, 2009 Candidate Fair at the Wooden Nickel Ranch in Menifee, California

A Candidate Fair will be held on Sunday, December 13, 2009 at the Wooden Nickel Ranch, 25690 Holland Road, Menifee, CA from 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. The event is free of charge.

California candidates running for office in 2010 will be present and addressing the crowd. The Wooden Nickel venue has a capacity for 2000+ people. The candidates include: Clayton Thibodeau who is running for Mary Bono-Mack�s 45th Congressional District seat, California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore who is running for Barbara Boxer�s U.S. Senate seat and Lt. Colonel Ken Dickson (USAF Ret.) who is running for termed-out Dennis Hollingsworth�s California State Senate seat. Joel Anderson, a current California State Assembly member, will be speaking, also.

Ken Pettigrew, host of the internet talk radio show http://www.kenpettigrewshow, will be the Master of Ceremonies and will be conducting his radio show live.

Planned activities include:

Boys Scouts Flag Color Guard Ceremony
Listen to live music � Guest singer Michelle Ross
BBQ Lunch with proceeds donated to non-profits groups including the Wounded Warriors.
Visit vendor booths � get involved � get informed � non-profits
Register to vote and sign available California Initiatives

The candidates will have their own booths and will be available for questions and interviews with the press.

A special invitation is extended to all Veterans, Active/Inactive Military Personnel, Firefighters and Law Enforcement Personnel.
Jane Lauhon, publicity
December 13 Candidate Fair
951-303-8912; vote4clay4congress@verizon.net
http://www.candidatesfor2010fair.com/

Bicycling in Riverside and beyond. Political? (Riverside needs to pass ordinances)

2009-11-05T23:14:12-08:00

Bicycling in Riverside, CA &Beyond
AND Riverside needs to pass ordinances to pass the details of the Riverside Bicycle Master Plan, so that new parking garages, business buildings, apartment/condo/townhouses other buildings will have the required parking for bicycles and egress.

Riverside Bicycle Club, rides AROUND THE Inland Empire, great site check it out http://www.riversidebicycleclub.com/

Riding in Riverside blog (all types of public transit issues bikes, buses, metrolink,. . .) http://ridinginriverside.blogspot.com

Rulezz of the Ride http://www.midnightridazz.com/policies.php

Riding in Riverside blog (all types of public transit issues bikes, buses, metrolink, and a bit now and then on bicycles. . .) http://ridinginriverside.blogspot.com

Midnight Ridazz Bicycle Ride Discussion Forum, Lists of Rides in right margin (LA CA based?) http://www.midnightridazz.com/forums.php

- A Realistic Look At Bicycle Facilities Laws and Programs http://www.bikexprt.com/bikepol/index.htm by John Allen

- table of Allen�s bicycling webpages http://www.bikexprt.com/bicycle/urllist.htm ex. Street Smarts, Bicycle facitilies

- Street Smarts by Allen http://www.bikexprt.com/streetsmarts/usa/index.htm

TransitRiderOC � Unofficial community for car-free, bicycling/transit riders in Orange County, CA http://www.transitrideroc.com/frontpage

OFF TOPIC: Best blog in Riverside/IE re politics/police matters FIVE BEFORE MIDNIGHT http://rivercitycopwatch.blogspot.com

Riverside�s Bicycle Master Plan (May 2007) http://www.riversideca.gov/pworks/pdf/masterplan-bicycle/Bicycle_Master_Plan.pdf

Riverside Bicycle Master Plan�Status Report what�s changed http://aquarius.riversideca.gov/clerkdb/DocView.aspx?id=103538 Video of Riverside Bicycle Master Plan � Status report as presented at Riverside City Council on October 13 Plan improvements from 5/2007 to 10/2009

NOTE click on item 14 to view video
http://65.49.32.146/ppportal/agenda/ViewAgenda.aspx?GUID=ed32cbf7-223e-4852-94fa-5d60134148b9

Interactive Bicycle Map for City of Riverside (new) http://maps.riversideca.gov/BikewaysFxApp/index.html Downtown Loop Map

Riverside�s Bicycle webpage (new) http://www.riversideca.gov/traffic/bike.asp

Riverside Ordinance re: unlawful to ride bicycle, skateboard . . . upon any sidewalk within any business district within the City or Upon the MAIN STREET MALL boarded by Sixth St on the north and Tenth St on the south.
http://aquarius.riversideca.gov/clerkdb/DocView.aspx?id=92914

POSTER's COMMENTS, sort of randomly made, on Biking in Riverside. Riverside need to do more to be BIKE Friendly.

*Riverside continues to build new drains into the sewers along the curb that are NOT bicycle safe. They dip down and are not level with bike lanes, and may flip bicycles and put riders LIVES AT RISK. Recent examples of this are at the Magnolia/Brockton/Central intersection.

* An overall strategy to keep bicycle lanes maintained (e.g. keep weeds/debris cleaned up out of the bike lanes) needs to be looked into as I have noted that existing lanes are unsafe (believe I saw weeds new Riverside City College on Magnolia for example)

* So called bicycle lanes within which asphalt lumps over into concrete are NOT a good idea and not safe if the transition between the two is not perfectly smooth. There are some area in Riverside which have a single surface in this area, but most are the lumping type. All future work on roads should keep the new 6 foot width in mind when building or resurfacing roads, and that portion of that road that is the bicycle lane should be a SINGLE SURFACE and should include NO changes in surface level (such as angled area draining into the drain. Instead bicycle safe grates should be used). Thanks to City for recent change from 4 to 6 foot widths on future bicycle lanes.

*The City of Riverside needs to ensure that all Railroad underpasses/overpasses, or any other such over or under passes have THE WIDEST BICYCLE LANE HUMANLY POSSIBLE. Not just the 6 feet, but perhaps 8 foot lanes. WHY, because once these structures are up, it is EXORBITANTLY expensive in future years to rectify the error of not planning ahead for increased number of people using bicycles. This has been documented in many bicycle friendly communities around the world such as Davis, CA and Amsterdam.

No expert on this but to enforce the Bicycle Master Plan think ordinances need to be passed. For example without passing that ordinance new/renovated buildings (business/corporate/apartment complexes/parking garages etc) such as new office buildings, the renovated Fox, the parking garage to be built by the FOX theatre may be built WITHOUT NEEDED parking space that the Riverside Bicycle Master Plan specifies. I believe a number of commercial structures have been approved since the Bicycle Master Plan, without asking those developers to adhere to these requirement. Including separate bicycle in parking garages. For example the new parking structure planned by the FOX should allocate space for bicycle parking which should include SEPARATE bicycle parking and separate egress to those bike parking spaces so bicycles are not using the same parking garage lanes.

*I have long stated the bicycle lanes along Central/Alessandro are too narrow. I spoke at the Council meeting prior to most the work being done and asked for the widest possible bicycle lanes, perhaps 8 feet on each side. The person who spoke said they would provide 5 feet of bicycle lanes which is too narrow. What he did not state was that was 5 feet divided by two, as the stripped lanes that were their when completed appeared to be only 2.5 feet wide, and included asphalt lumping over into concrete.

*Don�t know if it is planned for or not but Tequesquite Park needs a BATHROOM that park for BOTH the Park folks AND for bicyclists on the Santa Ana Trail .

* Ordinance Passed re uses including bicycles PROHIBITED on Riverside�s downtown mall . (see above link) but none to my knowledge to implement BMP provisions.

Oct 13 VIDEO giving update on RIVERSIDE�s Bicycle Master Plan, whats been done since May 2007
*Watch a City Video about the Bicycle Master Plan � that was approved May of 2007, taped at the Oct xx, 2009 6:30 pm Riverside City Council, Item 14

RIVERSIDE BICYCLE MASTER PLAN UPDATE session given by Siobion Foster here http://www.riversideca.gov/traffic/bike.asp Excellent presentation, with POWERPOINT presentation showing maps, photos, tables that are shown on screen. But the only way to read the powerpoint is to watch the video.

* Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) approved Master Plan in January 2008 which makes City eligible for state grant funding.

The goals for the CITY BICYCLE NETWORK were originally set as being completed by 2025 by have now been accelerated to 2018:

� Class 2 Bicycle lanes (ie lanes at sides of the street)
Existing in 2007 56.4 miles ...... Goal 168 miles ..... Miles completed between 2007 and 10/2009 23 miles
� Class l bicycle paths (off road)
Existing in 2007 18 miles ..... Goal 32.6 ..... Miles completed between 2007 and 10/2009 1/2 miles

Standard Bicycle lane width (ie lanes at sides of the street) has been increased from 4 to 6 feet.
POSTER NOTE: The NEW so called bike lanes, at least the ones in the powerpoint, showed that the lane area included BOTH asphalt and concrete within the lane area. Also true for Central.

New City Bicycle webpage http://www.riversideca.gov/traffic/bike.asp

Interactive Bicycle Map of the City of Riverside http://maps.riversideca.gov/BikewaysFxApp/index.html Click on the world symbol or Overview map box, and move the RED OUTLINE to over the area you would like to see in detail. The map legend tells what type of current or proposed lane it is. For example it indicates that in the Brockton/Central/Magnolia area that a bike lane EXISTS NOW on Magnolia and one is PROPOSED for Central.

Hardcopy bicycle map has been developed, to be available at Riverside, CA City Hall and other locations.

Bicycle Advisory Committee Has been newly created with an Initial meeting held on September 29, 2009 BUT NO INFO WAS PROVIDED on how to get in contact with this committee.

Grants funding , Bicycle Transportation Account Funds, Future Improvements Columbia, Main, Van Buren, Downtown Bike Loup Proposal (map shown0 were part of the recent city council presentation on the Bicycle Status Report/Update.

BE A PART OF IT attend and speak out at City Council meetings. City Council Agenda online

If you don�t want to attend you may email your comments to this City Council, City Clerk for public record for the upcoming City Council meeting. mgardner@riversideca.gov , asmelendrez@riversideca.gov , rbailey@riversideca.go , pdavis@riversideca.gov , cmacarthur@riversideca.gov

WATCH CITY COUNCIL meetings on TV ( but you won�t hear 90 percent of what is being passed as it is all passed by a single vote and not discussed) City Council meetings broadcast on AT&T Channel 99 and Charter Comm. Channel 3 - Closed captioning available Rebroadcast Wed at 4 p.m. and Sat at 9 a.m.

Webcast of City Council Meeting: http://65.49.32.146/ppportal/agenda/webcast.aspx City website http://www.riversideca.gov

JOE LEGAL vs. JOSE ILLEGAL (AMERICA)

2009-11-05T22:41:12-08:00

JOE LEGAL vs. JOSE ILLEGAL

You have two families: "Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal". Both families
have two parents, two children, and live in California ..

Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes
$25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.

Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number,
and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".

Ready? Now pay attention...

Joe Legal: $25.00 per hour x 40 hours = $1000.00 per week, or $52,000.00
per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax; Joe Legal now has
$31,231.00.

Jose Illegal: $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week, or
$31,200.00 per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes. Jose Illegal now has
$31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for
his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe Legal now
has $24,031.00.

Jose Illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the state and
local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has
$31,200.00.

Joe Legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or
welfare. Joe Legal pays $500.00 per month for food, or $6,000.00 per
year. Joe Legal now has $18,031.00.

Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps
and welfare. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays rent of $1,200.00 per month, or $14,400.00 per year. Joe
Legal now has $9,631.00.

Jose Illegal receives a $500.00 per month federal rent subsidy. Jose
Illegal pays $500.00 per month, or $6,000.00 per year. Jose Illegal
still has $ 31,200.00.

Joe Legal pays $200.00 per month, or $2,400.00 for insurance. Joe Legal
now has $7,231.00.

Jose Illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance!" and still has
$31,200.00.

Joe Legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, etc.

Jose Illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities,
gasoline, and what he sends out of the country every month.

Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after
work.

Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe
Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get
a government sponsored lunch. Jose Illegal's children have an after
school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.

Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same police and fire services,
but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.

Do you get it, now?

If you vote for or support any politician that supports illegal aliens...You are part of the problem!

It's way PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!

Write-in tallies may be released in Registrar's Friday 5:00 update (Riverside tally of write-in for Mayor)

2009-11-05T13:58:09-08:00

For details see http://www.pe.com/localnews/politics/stories/PE_News_Local_W_welect05.488e04a.html "Riverside mayoral write-ins still being tallied.

Re: Write-in tally

2009-11-04T22:23:41-08:00

What does it mean by semi-official? Does it mean just vote by mail, or just people that voted in person? I kinda want specifics =]

Reminder Nov 6 FMC speaker is Rosine, RSVP, Senior Corps (Topic is Senior Volunteers)

2009-11-04T21:56:05-08:00

Nov 6 at 10:00 a.m. Friday Morning Club speaker is

JULIAN ROSINE, Volunteer Coordinator
Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), Senior Corps, Serving Western Riverside County

Mr. Rosline will speak about Senior Volunteer Issues/opportunities/programs

More about Mr. Rosine and RSVP, Senior Corps

Mr. Rosine works out of the Janet Goeske Center, Room D, 5257 Sierra St., Riverside about two days a week. Mr. Rosine told me his hours at Janet Goeske Center will be Mondays and Fridays from about 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

From a brochure: Work Wonders with Your Experience

You've gained a lifetime of experience. Noe iw the time to put your skills and talents to good use by volunteering through RSVP.

RSVP is American's largest volunteer network for people age 55 and over. Join RSVP and you join nearly 500,000 volunteers across the country who are tackling tough issues in their communities.

With RSVP, you choose how and where you want to serve. You choose the amount of time you want to give. And you choose whether you want to draw on your skills or develop new ones.

In short, you find the opportunity that is right for you.

A Range of Opportunities
RSVP offers a full range of volunteer opportunities with thousands of local and national organizations. For example you may:

- Mobilize other volunteers

- Mentor or tutor children

- Share legal or financial experience

- Assist victims of natural disasters

- Clean up the environment

- Lead fund raising efforts

- And much, much, more!
RSVP = Results
Whatever you choose to do, you'll be making a real difference. Stronger families. Cleaner water. Safer communitieis. With RSVP, you'll see tangible outcomes and learn first hand how your contributions can change your community.
With RSVP you's receive pre-service orientation, traning from the organization where you serve, and supplemental insurance while on duty.

Useful blogs or websites

Five Before Midnight blog http://rivercitycopwatch.blogspot.com
Riding in Riverside http://ridinginriverside.blogspot.com

Friday Morning Club

meets weekly from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Janet Goeske Senior Center, Room D, 5257 Sierra St. (at corner of Streeter). Citizens listen to the speaker of the day, discuss City Council agenda items and other matters of concern . Everyone is WELCOME to attend, meet new people, and become better informed on issues. Questions? Contact the Karen Friday Morning Club Moderator 204. 3252. or at the above email

Write-in tally, semi-official (Riverside)

2009-11-04T21:06:00-08:00

According to the Registrar of Voters, official mayoral write-in candidates votes are as follows:

Ken Stansbury- 44

Kent- 11

http://www.voteinfo.net/docs/Semi-OfficialWriteInResults_4NOV09_.pdf

Wow, just think what they could do with 70,000 dollars to spend on a campaign like Loveridge.

Get involved -- Frank Robles for Sheriff (Riverside County, CA)

2009-11-04T21:03:22-08:00

Frank Robles for Sheriff http://frankrobles.blogspot.com/

If you're looking for a way to get involved - to really have an impact in
Riverside, let me introduce you to the Frank Robles cause.

Let's not let county politics dictate who we see elected to public office.
Frank Robles is running for Sheriff, and we finally have the opportunity to
actually make a difference in how our money is spent, how the department
is run.

Frank Robles for Sheriff http://frankrobles.blogspot.com/

WRITE-IN VOTES NOT YET COUNTED (Riverside, CA)

2009-11-04T11:46:42-08:00

I spoke with both the Riverside County Registrar of Voters and the Riverside City Clerk.
All the votes are not in yet in the race for Riverside Mayor, as the certified WRITE-IN VOTEs have not yet been counted.
The certified WRITE-IN votes will be reported when that count has been completed.

From the Riverside City's website http://www.riversideca.gov/city_clerk/elections-muni.asp

The Mayoral election was conducted on November 3, 2009, for a short-term ending June 2012.
November 3, 2009, Semi-Final Official Mayoral Election Results:

* Art Gage ............................................. 5,629 ......... 30.83..%
* Ron Loveridge ....................................12,630.......... 9.17....%
* Kenneth L. Stansbury (Write-in) .................. 0.......... 0.........% [POSTER: Certified Write-In votes are not yet included, and are being counted]
* Troy Kent (Write-in) ....................................0...........0..........% [POSTER: Certified Write-In votes are not yet included, and are being counted]

Ballots cast for write-in candidates and vote-by-mail ballots received on election day will be counted during the election canvass. Updated results will be posted as available.

All subsequent Mayoral elections will be held in June of United States Presidential election years with runoffs, if required, the following November.

Re. Idiot Voters

2009-11-04T09:23:13-08:00

I say, the more parties the better. The dichotomy alternately described as conservative vs liberal or Republican vs Democrat or right vs left is utterly meaningless. Where the rubber meets the road, the policies from the current white house are indistinguishable from those of the previous. Guantanamo (Gitmo) is still open, Barak endorses torture, he is expanding our war in Afghanistan and into Pakistan, his CIA still runs drugs, the troops that he promised to pull out of Iraq were only replaced, and by more expensive and less accountable private contractors and on and on. But really, why play their name game and call them "private contractors" when in fact we have a perfectly well understood term for them, that being mercenaries. It's a lot less palatable (or it should be) to the people so they avoid the issue by renaming it just like "collateral damage" as a replacement for murder. Whatever you may think of Barak and his slick rhetoric, he is just the same as Bush.

With this administration, just like the last, every issue results in continued war, more government, less privacy, less freedom or a combination of these. It continues to trample the Posse Comitatus Act just like Bush, perpetuates the putrid Patriot Act just like Bush and snuggles up ever closer to the banking industry just like Bush. To whine about conservatives "running the country into the ground" is to miss the point. The party descriptions mainly serve to divide the people into camps where they waste all their time blaming the other camp for "running the country into the ground" instead of addressing the real issue which is that government is overgrown and out of control. It is a parasite and it is killing the host.

Each politician must be judged on his or her own actions and not allowed a free pass just because they belong to this party or that. So, the voters are not really idiots, they are just ignorant that they are being played against each other so that the machine can continue unmolested. It really isn't that the Republicans are evil or stupid or that the Democrats are evil or stupid. However, I do have a strong suspicion that the vast majority of both parties must be psychotic. The very fact that they seek, as a career, the power to control others is a candid testimony to their psychosis.

Peace,
Sam

This was written in response to: http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pol/1450674083.html

Voters are Idiots

2009-11-03T21:49:57-08:00

Republicans win in the East today, why because now we have a new Party, The Conservatives, Not just Democrats, Republicans and Independents a new party that has risen from the Tea Baggers Balls, the Conservative Republican Party. (1) Democrats (2) Republicans (3) Conservatives (4) Independents, what the WTF is this?

The Republican/Conservatives run the country into the ground and now blame the Democrats that the country needs jobs. You would have to be Jesus Christ to bring jobs to a country that has bubbled every aspect of the US economy buy giving easy credit to anyone with hands.

Credit has been shut off by what Republicans have done in the last 8-12 years of power. Republican leadership has stolen Billions of Dollars by changing all the rules of banking in 1998 and following years that are still in effect. Monopolies of every type are the norm, from banks to telecom, from healthcare to credit cards, from payday loans to pawn shops.

We are screwed when 90% of the media is against are president and his policies and will lie about anything from Acorn to the President is not a American but a Kenyan and the dumb ass Voters believe this crap.

Dick Cheney says it is will be a complete disaster to close Gismo, then complain Mr Obama is not fulfilling his campaign promises by closing Gismo.

Voters that go against the President and democrats will just bring back the ass hole nuts that gave us this huge mess in the first place to make more and bigger messes. They will fix nothing and don�t even try to help fix the mess they left behind.

Voters Are Idiots.

You're Fired! (Rivercity)

2009-11-03T21:44:48-08:00

Why should we even have a White House Spokesman anyway? I mean honestly, houses don't talk. Is this person speaking for the president? If so, why doesn't the president come out and say what he has to say and not send some stooge intermediary to cloud the issue. Ah, I answer my own question. This job should be abolished since it is obvious that the only purpose of the position is to obfuscate the truth. Do we really need to be paying another person to lie to us and dodge what few real questions the media pets actually pose?

Robert Gibbs, you're fired!

Activist Judge

2009-11-03T18:05:18-08:00

What can one do when a judge is behaving unlawfully?
Thanks,
Concerned citizen.

97/97 precincts 1:05 a.m. report unoffical: Loveridge; Allavie; Beaty (No yet counted certified WRITE-IN ballots)

2009-11-03T17:57:14-08:00

NOTE: The count numbers below reflects the count of of VOTES coming in from the 97 precincts for CANDIDATES THAT WERE LISTED ON THE BALLOT ONLY. Votes for Certified WRITE-IN candidates had not been counted as of Wed, Nov 4 at 12:30 p..m

Interested in Election results but don't know where to check for the numbers?
Check here http://www.election.co.riverside.ca.us/eresults/52/Election%20Result_idx.htm

UPDATE as of 8:08 pm, Ron Loveridge is ahead

Riverside Mayor
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............................................ 21/97. . . . . 21.65%
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . Vote Count . . . Percent
RON LOVERIDGE . . . 8,921 . . . . .... .69.32%
ART GAGE . . . . . . . .. . 3,948 . . . . . .. ..30.68%
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .12,869 .. . . . . .100.00%

As of 9:16 p.m.

Riverside Mayor
37/97 38.14%
.......................................Vote Count.........Percent
RON LOVERIDGE ....... 9,640...................69.70%
ART GAGE.....................4,190 ..................30.30%
Total .............................13,830 ................100.00%

At 10:10 p.m.

Riverside Mayor
63/97 64.95%
.......................................Vote Count Percent
RON LOVERIDGE .........11,175...... 69.99%
ART GAGE........................4,791...... 30.01%
Total ................................15,966...... 100.00%

FINAL COUNT Wed Nov 4 at 1:05 a.m.
Riverside Mayor
97/97 100.00%
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ......Vote Count ..... Percent

RON LOVERIDGE .............. 12,630 ...... 69.17..%
ART GAGE ..............................5,629...... 30.83..%
Total* ....................................... 18,259...... 100.00..%
*NOTE The above totals do NOT include totals for the two certified WRITE-IN CANDIDATES -- Ken Stansbury and Troy Kent. The write-ins are being counted and will be reported. (Also votes prior to the election may not yet have been counted.

========================================================================

Riverside Unified School Disctrict (I did not report on Alvord. Click on the above link for those results.)
9:16

Riverside USD Gov Brd Mbr.
43/92 46.74%
.......................................................Vote Count .......Percent
KATHY Y. ALLAVIE ........................... 8,503 .........38.65%
CHARLES ''CHUCK'' BEATY...............7,660...........34.82%
MARK SWARTZ...................................3,164...........14.38%
CHRISTOPHER LORENZ..................... 2,674 ..........12.15%
Total......................................................22,001.........100.00%

Updated at 10:10 p.m.
Riverside USD Gov Brd Mbr.
71/92 77.17%

.................................................Vote Count..... Percent KATHY Y. ALLAVIE .................10,135 ..... 39.15%
CHARLES ''CHUCK'' BEATY ......9,140..... 35.31%
MARK SWARTZ............................3,585 .... 13.85%
CHRISTOPHER LORENZ............. 3,027..... 11.69%
Total .......................................... .. 25,887..... 100.00%

FINAL COUNT at Wed Nov 4 at 1:05 a.m.

Riverside USD Gov Brd Mbr.
92/92 100.00%
...............................................Vote Count ..... Percent
KATHY Y. ALLAVIE ................. 11,015 38.93% WINNER
CHARLES ''CHUCK'' BEATY.... 9,995 35.32% WINNER
MARK SWARTZ ........................ 3,954 13.97%
CHRISTOPHER LORENZ .......... 3,334 11.78%
Total ............................................. 28,298 100.00%

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============================== Text below prior to Election results ==========================================

Well it is still too early, but click away when its time to see those numbers move, crawl, or just sit there.

At City Hall everyone seemed confident that Loveridge would win with a landslide. Said he won by 78% last time around. That may be true, he is personable, yet he doesn't seem to respect the right of the taxpayers to be able to have their 3 minute say at City Hall. It just occurred to me that the sale of the 400 spaces in the garage which was immediately adjacent to the City Hall, and therefore SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN SOLD, may have been sold so that only insiders would have an easy time getting to, parking and speaking at City Council /Agency meetings/hearings etc. That many not be the case, but it hit me like a ton of brick today.

I have not really been seeking out info on who voted for who. I would say about 2/3 or 3/4 or more of the people that I spoke with ARE NOT voting for Loveridge. But then the people I spoke with are not under the sphere of influence of City Hall and all that it embodies.

How will Art Gage do? Well other than Loveridge his in the only name I heard uttered with I am voting for.

That is in person.

- On CL there is some posts in favor if the two certified write-ins, Ken Stansbury and Troy Kent.

- I liked Ken Stansbury's video, but then I know Ken a bit. A very bright guy ready to do the hard research.

- I missed Troy Kent's CBS showing but maybe I can catch it later. His InstantRiverside video, not so much. But I hand it to him for getting his foot in the fray. However I think he needs to do more research (or perhaps I do) as I understood that the next Mayoral election was only about 18 months away or some period shorter than the normal term.

- Than there is the not qualified Michaels (can't recall his first or last name). I have to hand it to him for putting his email here on CL. Many/most people would not put their real email on CL. Hopefully that email was one used just for this election.. I have been so focused on whose actually qualified/certified to run, that I did not think about people's right to write in whoever they wish, though I am told those votes are not counted. I don't know the truth of that.

Well, on the next round, whoever loses this time may be back.

- Then I understand Dom Betro wants to come back as well, former Councilman Ward1.

See you all back here next time around.

Church and State (Redlands)

2009-11-03T17:18:58-08:00

Hello,
I am seeking someone to distribute the old Redlands seal that contained the cross. The seal was modified and the cross was removed in 2004.

I have several stickers to distribute free of charge.

Please take them and give them to your church as a reminder to society that we indeed are a Christian nation, state, city, community, etc.

Denounce the ACLU.

KEN STANSBURY for MAYOR (write-in @ your polling place)

2009-11-03T16:20:39-08:00

Let's have real change, real dialogue in the City Government- Not the lesser of two evils.
Vote Ken Stansbury Mayor, write-in candidate
http://kenstansbury4mayor.com/
http://www.instantriverside.com/riverside-ca-news/ken-stansbury-art-gage-ron-loveridge-mayor-riverside-election/2009/10/30/

ART GAGE, for Mayor in Riverside (The right one)

2009-11-03T15:47:43-08:00

Get LOVE-Bridge out of there.

ART GAGE is the man. and The next Mayor in Riverside

RE:VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT LOVERIDGE (IE)

2009-11-03T13:59:38-08:00

What have you been smoking? Mayor Ron has done an outstanding job as our mayor.

Fact: under his leadership, Riverside has beome a truely environmentally friendly city
Fact: He is a very approachable person
Fact: He is smart
Fact: it would be unwise to vote for another

Vote for Ron Loveridge
and let the facts speak for themselves

VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT LOVERIDGE! (WRITE IN TROY KENT FOR RIVERSIDE'S MAYOR)

2009-11-03T11:51:07-08:00

Riverside does not deserve more of the same. Riverside deserves the future.

Today, in your voting booths, I want you to consider the future...

Do you want same old politics (Loveridge) or do you want the new boss to be just the same as the old (Gage)?

Today, write in Troy Kent as your pick for Riverside's mayor!

Troy Kent knows the hardships of todays youth, Troy Kent represents a new generation of politics, Troy Kent is a fresh face after over 10 years of same old politics and a possible 3 years of more typical politics

WRITE IN TROY KENT FOR MAYOR OF RIVERSIDE!
"Out with the old, in with the new"

WRITE IN TROY KENT FOR RIVERSIDE'S MAYOR...TODAY! (Troy Kent For Mayor!)

2009-11-03T11:44:00-08:00

Today, you will be going into your voting booths. The city would like to let you know that you have 2 choices. You can either vote for:

Ron Loveridge- Same old policies
Art Gage- Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

They don't want you to know that there's an alternative option. Today, write-in Troy Kent for Riverside's mayor!

Troy Kent- A fresh face, the new age of city politics, Riverside's Michael Sessions (google it)

WRITE IN TROY KENT TODAY!
"Out with the old, in with the new"

Looking Back to 2004 and a PE article about "Five Points" in La Sierra (Over 5 years later Five Point still sits)

2009-11-03T11:01:46-08:00

THIS IS A LOOK BACK. THE SAD THING IS, IS THAT THOSE BUSINESS WERE FORCED OUT BY EMINENT DOMAIN OR THE THREAT THEREOF, AND YEARS LATER THEY STILL SIT VACANT. Where is the Vision Steve Adams? Where is the vision Ron Loveridge, you made sure projects in downtown got money including $900,000 or was it $90,000 for your bathrooms?

http://www.pe.com/breakingnews/local/stories/PE_News_Local_fivecut.a08dd.html

A Saturday, March 6, 2004, Press-Enterprise article by Doug Haberman titled "Five Point's one goal requires a vision; Riverside: Some contend that "Orange County"goals for the rundown area aren't realisting"

Excerpt:

RIVERSIDE - If Ozzie and Harriet were still alive, they might feel at home shopping at Five Points.

The small commercial zone, where the La Sierra and Arlanza neighborhoods of Riverside meet at the intersection of five streets, seems little changed in decades. Simple one-story stucco buildings stand right against the sidewalk. Landscaping is scant.

A few of the businesses - used-auto dealers, a Mexican meat market, a Latin American music shop - cater to a growing Latino community that is predominantly lower-income.
[graphic here http://www.pe.com/imagesdaily/2004/03-07/gx030704fivepoints_300.jpg

This graphic includes (1) three charts by race, by ethnicity, and by age of "Who lives in La Sierra and Arlanza", and (2) a map of the five points area with some notations]
Some residents, city officials and landowners see the intersection and environs as tired, uninspired and crying out for a major facelift.

Driven in part by the development of the 1,000-home high-end RiverWalk tract a stone's throw away, they are beginning to talk about bringing new, more upscale businesses to Five Points.
The city is coincidentally doing things that could one day help - designating a redevelopment project area and revising the general plan, the city's blueprint for growth.
Property owner Jack Maynor said he would love to see all of La Sierra made into a more attractive neighborhood"

But some business owners are concerned about change. They say the neighborhoods around Five Points are heavily Latino and working-class and that any attempt to serve the newer, wealthier residents moving here from Orange County and other parts of western Riverside County shouldn't leave longer-standing residents behind.
Beginnings

The seeds of growth in the area were planted in 1922 when the Seventh-day Adventist Church first bought property there, opening a secondary school that year that one day would become La Sierra University. In 1964, the La Sierra area voted itself into the city of Riverside, adding 25,000 to the city's population and fueling further growth.
Marjorie von Pohle moved to La Sierra in 1951 and owns property at Five Points.

"It was the center of La Sierra back then," von Pohle said.

There was a variety story, a family-run pie shop, a drugstore, a hardware store and a gas station, among other businesses. Cabbage fields spread out from the intersection down to Magnolia Avenue, she said. La Sierra was still largely a Seventh-day Adventist community.

New councilman

One of those now leading the charge for change at Five Points is newly seated Councilman Steve Adams, who lives about a half mile away.
He represents Ward 7, which encompasses most of La Sierra. Five Points is located at the border of La Sierra and Arlanza, which is mostly in Councilwoman Nancy Hart's Ward 6.
"Since before he was sworn in Feb. 10, Adams has been talking to some of the owners of land at or near the intersection. Everyone he's spoken with is excited about doing something at Five Points, "even if we have to level it and start from scratch," he said.

He particularly would like to see a coffeehouse and a nice sit-down restaurant or two for families, on the order of a Chili's, Adams said.
"It's such an ideal location," he said.

But he has a grander vision - something similar to University Village but without the movie theater, he said. Jeff Kaatz, La Sierra University's vice president for advancement, said a smaller version of University Village would be great for the school's nearly 2,000 students. Now, if they want to take a break from studying, many of them drive to the Galleria at Tyler, he said.
New restaurants and coffeehouses at Five Points would give students an alternative within walking distance of the campus, Kaatz said.

Will Rojas, 22, who manages the La Sierra Meat Market next to Pizza Hut, said business is good at his family-owned store, which sells fresh pig's feet and Mexican chorizo (sausage) as well as Mexican canned goods and cleaning products, among other items. RiverWalk isn't representative of the entire area, he said, and many residents would be upset to lose his shop and others.
"You've still got those neighborhoods over there," he said, pointing east of La Sierra Avenue, where many lower-income Latinos live.
Adams said it's not his intent to displace any business without improving its situation at the same time.

Robert Hernandez, 25, owns Car Stereo City, one of the businesses at Five Points. A Riverside native, he is doubtful anything remotely upscale would fit in at the intersection.
"Sometimes people think it's kind of 'ghetto' around this area," Hernandez said. "To put a Red Lobster in here is not going to work."
Project area

Other factors besides Adams' election could lead to change at Five Points.
The city is putting in place a new redevelopment project area encompassing much of La Sierra and Arlanza. Tax revenues that now go to Riverside County will be redirected to the project area and could be used to improve rundown streets and install curbs and gutters throughout the two neighborhoods, or, should city officials decide, be used to entice new businesses to the area.
For example, in the past few years the city Redevelopment Agency has helped several restaurants open up on the downtown pedestrian mall by giving them loan guarantees or other forms of assistance

In addition, the updating of the city's general plan now under way provides an opportunity for officials to evaluate what makes sense for the commercial zone in the coming years, city Planning Director Ken Gutierrez said. A citizens' congress to review a draft of the plan update is set for June 12, and a City Council vote is likely toward the end of the year.
With hundreds of people moving into RiverWalk's homes, demand for restaurants, coffeehouses and upscale retail outlets at Five Points will continue to grow, Gutierrez said. Houses in RiverWalk start at $270,000 for the smallest models. At least one 5-bedroom home with more than 4,300 square feet of space and a 10,500-square-foot lot has been listed for sale at $750,000.

"My sense is the time is coming, if it's not already here, for a revitalization of Five Points," Gutierrez said.

Why trust Brad's judgement on the Riv Main Library? (STOP THE LIBRARY PROCESS NOW!)

2009-11-03T10:42:20-08:00

You saw where under Brad's guidance Riverside GAVE AWAY essentially our 400 of our parking spaces for roughly $10,000 ea when the replacement cost is$30,000 or more per space.

This library decision is BAD BAD BAD.

Stop the design process now, with whatever millions they have spent.

That will not all go to waste, as they have been getting NEEDS and WANTS and they have NOT ACTUALLY DESIGNED THE INTERIOR space which is EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE.

STOP Now.

Hold your horses.

Don't let Brad/Board of Library Trustees dig that hole so deep that we Riverside citizens cannot climb out.

We need a NEW LIBRARY in a NEW LOCATION.

That is the bottom line. That is less costly for a World Class Library and a facility that can host more and better events.

If we are to be a City of Arts, Culture and Innovation, then we should not submit for a piecmeal job of planning for the library.

The layout proposed will result in more wasted space because it is long narrow shapes, that means LOTS OF HALLWAYS that are essentially wasted space. You cannot put books in a hallway.

STOP THE MONEY DRAIN FOR WHITE ELEPHANTS

STOP THE MONEY DRAIN TO PROVIDE TAJ MAHAL MEETING SPACE for DOWNTOWN BUSINESSES

What Riverside Citizens need is an Library Large enough to take us into the future and the library proposed is wholly inadequate.

That said VOTE FOR ART GAGE.

Looking back at a 10/2008 Lib/Museum post. BAD decisions seem the norm (Give away AG park; Destroy good Lib Bldg)

2009-11-03T10:33:48-08:00

A LOOK BACK, This item was originally posted in Oct 2008 Orignial posting title: Attend the Tue Oct 14 2:00 pm workshop about the Library & Museum Original Specific Location title: Riverside Council Chambers, 10th/Main If you have any interest in the Riverside Library or Museum Expansions, you time to speak is at the 2:00 PM workshop at Riverside Council Chambers on Tuesday.

RIVERSIDE LIBRARY

The Library wants to double the library size on site. This will mean wiping out the trees and open space in front of the library for the most part.

I say this is a very bad idea, particularly considering that there is no parking for patrons of the library who want to use library resources, or for citizens wanting to attend the many wonderful library events.

In addition an expansion on site would DRAMATICALLY change the atmosphere in downtown Riverside, block views and light from the Mission in, and WIPE OUT the foresight by Riverside's forefathers who wisely left some modicum of open space in the downtown area.

It also wipes out an open space used by some groups for annual events.

Therefore the decision being recommended is a BAD DECISION and without vision for the future of the Library or Riverside. Other decisions could be made, including refurbishing the existing library building AND expanding the library elsewhere in a location that makes sense for Riverside Citizens. Another idea someone suggested was to use the library building as an expansion location for the Museum, AND build a new main library with adequate room for the collections, events, and parking for visitors elsewhere in Riverside.

I do not know the right answer for the Riverside Library, but I do know that doubling the space at the current location is NOT the answer.

As downtown interests want this, and as I feel the City is pushing this likely it will be the outcome. But in my opinion it is NOT an outcome in the best interests of all citizens of Riverside, and seems like a decision influenced by downtown interests who do not seem to consider that Riverside consists of more than just the downtown, and also who do not respect our historic legacy and are rapidly destroying what little we have left downtown, like the open space in front of the library.

RIVERSIDE MUSEUM The museum wanted to expand at a nearby downtown location, but were told no no no that that property would be sold to a private developer instead. Well we do not need more offices/condos in downtown. The City has approved enough condos (read rental apartments for UCR and others) already.

I heard the City wants the Museum to expand on the space behind the building. But again that is NOT sufficient space and there is no parking nearby. The Museum was wiser to try to expand at the nearby location, which I was told they were denied.

BOTTOM LINE

The City of Riverside does not have visions for our Library and Museum. They have a make do attitude and don't seem to care if their solutions are not realistic.

The City could have SAVED our AG park and transformed that into a regional destination with space for Museum Expansion, perhaps a Library element, native plantings and other features, which could have been the GOLDEN GATE of Riverside. That would have been a vision and citizens would have had something to show for the money spent Instead this property was essentially given away for essentially nothing to a developer. Toxic waste? Well if the cost was really excessive for cleanup then the developer would not have wanted the property. So instead of having a standout Riverside Park with Museum and other facilities interspersed in a beautiful park overlooking our Santa Ana River bottom, we gave a property worth millions away to a developer for essentially nothing. Riverside lost a destination location in Ag park. Poor decisions about the Library and Museum expansions may repeat this earlier mistake.

EXISTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, and WHERE TO EXPAND THESE FACILITIES

Both the existing library and museum buildings could be left in place and upgraded at a minimum, with expansion space elsewhere. While it is more cost effective to have a single facility, the downtown wants to retain these facilities downtown. So whether we can have first class expansions downtown or whether they should be elsewhere in Riverside should be the question asked and answered, with possible locations raised.

EXPANSION

Make the expansions elsewhere. For example, Riverside has few libraries for a City of this size, and some citizen have to travel a bit to get to a library. So perhaps a study of this issue could disclose a location where a new library is needed AND where it would make sense to have a more major library expansion.

Oct 14 2:00 pm City Council Agenda item on the Library and Museum

SOURCE: http://www.riversideca.gov/city_clerk/agenda.asp
2 P.M.--CITY COUNCIL

MAYOR CALLS MEETING TO ORDER

1. Public Comment Period - This is the portion of the meeting specifically set aside to invite your comments regarding any items on closed sessions, Redevelopment Agency Consent Calendar, or other matters within the jurisdiction of the Redevelopment Agency - Individual audience participation is limited to 3 minutes and you will be asked to state your name and city of residence.

WORKSHOP

2. Report from Board of Library Trustees and Metropolitan Museum Board Chairs in follow-up to Blue Ribbon Task Force (All Wards)

It sounds like this will be presentations by the Library and Museum only, so please bring written comments, use the public comments, send emails to your City Council members and task force about your concerns.

To see the 9 page backup document to item 2 go here http://aquarius.riversideca.gov/clerkdb/DocView.aspx?id=89481
Backup includes proposed space needs etc.
The City has it in a format that I cannot copy and paste in here so you will have to click on the above link.

Brad Hudson said Greyhound will leave Riv after Jan 31 (LOOK BACK (Fight for a RIGHT SIZED LIBRARY)

2009-11-03T10:24:06-08:00

REPOSTED FROM NOV 5, 2008. BRAD WANTED GREYHOUND GONE, NOW IT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL STAY AFTERALL.

Old Subject Title: Brad Hudson said Greyhound will leave Riverside after January 31 Old Specific Location Title: Greyhound should be put on the ballot
<.h3>[NEW TEXT 12/3/2009 So that said, Brad wants a Main Library that is inadequately sized (signicificantly undersized, particularly in light of our anticipated population growth where will will surge beyond 1/2 million), without adequate parking (82 parking spaces and NOT ALL FOR THE LIBRARY, be real).

Lets see if Riverside citizens may let REASON REIGN and see that a RIGHT SIZED library (208,000 gross ft which will result in about 75 percent of that being usable space) built in a DIFFERENT LOCATION so that we may have adequate parking. We need some COMMON SENSE in Riverside Government!]

GREYHOUND IS OFFICIALLY OUT (We should put Greyhound stay/leave on the ballot so Riverside citizens can have a say on whether we want Greyhound in the City of Riverside or not)

During the November 4, 2008 3:00 P.M. Riverside City Council meeting, Andy Melendrez asked City Manager to tell the public the status of Greyhound leaving, and to tell the public what it cost Riverside citizens. Andy mentioned he was precluded from attending the meeting held where it was decided to get rid of Greyhound, as he owned property within 500 feet, but he understood that an agreement had been made with Greyhound .

This topic came up after I made public comments stating that I was not the only person who wanted Greyhound to stay, but there were hundreds or thousands in Riverside. I sent email to the City Council, City Clerk and Mayor for the record including 4 seperate emails against pushing Greyhound out, and stating that I had heard a deal had been made/finalized/settled and that Greyhound would officially be out of Riverside on January 31, 2009

In response to Andy Melendrez's request, Brad Hudson refused to share the terms of the deal or how much this would cost citizens.

This entire discussion may be viewed on Channel 3 or on demand on the City of Riverside website.

This discussion comes after I made my public comments at about 17:30 minutes into the Nov 4, 2008 3:00 p.m. City Council meeting, and at 17:40 minutes Andy Melendrez City Councilman Ward 4 asked Brad Hudson to tell the status of Greyhound and the cost of relocating the Greyhound to let the community known the status, as apparently an agreement has been made with Greyhound. Brad said the Greyhound would be at its current downtown Riverside location until January 31. After January 31, 2009, Greyhound will be gone, and would be replaced by a police and fire units. Riverside citizens who wished to take Greyhound would need to go to Colton, Perris, San Bernardino, and that the City. Brad said he was not ready to release the cost of getting rid of Greyhound and would not do so until it was "executed". Nancy Hart asked Brad about bus lines, cabs or other options for Riverside residents to get to the San Bernardino, Colton, or Perris Greyhound Stations. Brad said they are considering options including considering Dial a Ride etc. Andy asked if RTA or the City would pay for Dial A Ride and Brad said the City would be paying for this, but hopefully in partnership with RTA. These comments about Greyhound ended at about 20:34 minutes into this council meeting, and you may view this entire disscussion on Channel 3 replays of the meeting, or by going the the City website online and clicking on the on demand video.

Should say that I also requested that my Councilman Rusty Bailey and Frank Schiavone take the lead in getting an item on the ballot to allow Riverside Citizens to vote on whether they want Greyhound in Riverside or not. I asked Frank Schiavone to address this matter, as he worked diligently and closely with a former Council member to ensure that we could vote on keeping roosters in sound proof structures from dawn to dusk, and was very vocal at that time that Riverside citizens should have the right to vote on matters that impact Riverside citizens so I thought he would certainly think that citizens should also have a right to vote on a matter that impacts 80,000 passenger trips per year in and out of Riverside, whereas the rooster matter was the subject of a single complaint I believe.

Should say that neither of these two council members gave any indication that they had any interest in pursuing my suggestion, nor did any other of the City Council members express any concerns, except as stated above, Council persons Melendrez and Hart did ask questions about Greyhound issues.

So if we want to keep Greyhound we will have to get an initiative going and get it on the ballot, ourselves by community action. If you know how to do this and have time, please get the process going.

I believe the link to this video for the above mentioned City Council meeting is http://209.128.123.170/RiversideCity/52729a7d-44af-4db0-b4a9-63cd7ee97ec2/CCM110408A/presentation_file/mgpresenter.html

If that doesn't work this is the link to Riverside's webcast page http://209.128.123.170/ppportal/agenda/webcast.aspx

Click on the
Meeting Name Date Duration Video
Council Meeting 11/4/2008 1 hr 28 min Play Video View Agenda

Ken Calvert accepted $38,925 from coal industry since 2000 per website (Dump Calvert, vote for Hedricks)

2009-11-03T10:09:42-08:00

Reposted from Nov 1, 2008. Funny how some things don't change. We need Ken Calvert GONE.... "Tracking dirty coal money in politics" according to http://coalmoney.priceofoil.org/federalRaceGraph.php?zip=92506&type=search&x=16&y=8

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) "Accepted $53,9000 from coal industry since 2000. $26,000 of those dollars were from industry PACS."

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)"Accepted $10,500 from the coal industry since 2000. $8,000 of those dollars were from industry PACS." Note $8,000 of this in 110th Congress (2007-2008)

Note for all three of the above the primary donor was Edison International, click on the names, and then click on the circle images spanning out from the Congresspersons photo to see the organization name and dollars.

Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA44)Accepted $38,925 from the coal industry since 2000. $37,900 of those dollars were from industry PACS. Note: 11,000 of this 110th Congress (2007-2008)

At the bottom of this site it says the data is from the Center for Responsive Politics, last updated 7/31/2008.

Excerpt of text about Ken Calvert, from http://kencalvert.blogspot.com/ "TOP SECRET, EYE ON CALVERT, The Ken Calvert Countdown

You have reached the political watch site for Congressional Representative Ken Calvert, from Riverside , CA . This site was created to be a one-stop anti-Ken Calvert shop. Regardless of your party affiliation, we hope that you have come upon our site because you are concerned about and disgusted by politicians who have blatantly used their elected positions for personal advantage, and financial gain. Please take the time to read and comment on Rep. Calvert.

We guarantee you will leave the site scratching your head wondering how this man continues to remain in office. The CalvertCountdown was created to be an educational source and open commentary on his ongoing antics and misdeeds. Your comments are crucial.

Also, if you find another article on this man, or if you want to provide an anonymous tip, please let us know.

It's time for both parties to clean house, literally! If you are a Republican reading this site, there are many reasons why Republicans lost Congress -- Calvert, unfortunately, is just one example.

The time is now for Federal term limits � for every Congressional district, in every state. Democracy must prevail!

Thursday, September 20, 2007
See who Calvert shares The 22 Most Corrupt List with...

Excerpts

... The 22 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (And Two to Watch),� was released Tuesday by CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington).

The third annual report can be viewed at http://www.beyonddelay.org. The site offers short summaries of each member�s transgressions, full-length profiles and all accompanying documentation ....

others among the �corrupted� list include: Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif. ...

Check out a letter to Ken Calvert dated Wed July 25, 2007 http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=52014534&blogID=291768156

NOTE: Back in July 25 this individual was writing about "Riverside housing defaults hitting all-time highs . . . and attributes this issue not just subprime troubles and design of the loans and more.

Go to the above line for exact quotes and full text and context.

Vote for Bill Hedrick for the 44th Congressional District of California in the 2010 Election

learn more here http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Hedrick
Cursor down for background and positions on issues, controversies . . .

A look back to March, 6, 2007: Format of City Council Meetings (VOTE for Gage VOTE for the right to speak )

2009-11-03T10:06:08-08:00

LOOKING BACK WHAT DID MAYOR LOVERIDGE SAY? Posted DEC 2, 2008 BOLDING ADDED NOW. This link http://aquarius.riversideca.gov/clerkdb/DocView.aspx?id=52242 is to a City Council Memorandum, from Mayor Loveridge, to the himself and the City Council on the City Council agenda for March 6, 2007 City Council Agenda Item Number 24.

Specific Location title in March 6, 2007 post: Mayor Loveridge's suggestion to City

Subject: FORMAT OF CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS

Interestingly I learn that it is MAYOR Loveridge that wants citizens to WAIT sometimes long hours before they have an opportunity to make their public comments.

Mayor Loveridge also put "a focus on the consent calendar. There is a specific time to speak on the consent calender. As to discussing a consent calender item separately, it would remain the choices of the City Council, Mayor and City Manager." Well I believe Mayor Loveridge misspoke about a specific time to speak to items on the consent calendar BECAUSE THERE IS NOT TIME SPECIFICALLY SET ASIDE TO DISCUSS CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMs. At least NOT how this was implemented in Riverside CA. The attachment to the backup was from San Bernardino and TIME WAS SPECIFICALLY set aside for citizens there to address Consent calendar items. So not providing Riverside Citizens a set time to address concerns about consent calendar items is another stab in the back to democracy here in Riverside.

Mayor Loveridge also stated on page to "And fourth, placing public comments at the end would lessen their use to advance highly personalized or political platforms. If someone cannot stay, there is always the option to speak at the opening public comments in the afternoon." [12/3/2009 new comment, well they began restricting afternoon comments as well, they told me several times I was restricted to items on the afternoon agenda and COULD NOT speak concerns I had if they were unrelated to calendared items. IT IS A DIRTY GAME THEY PLAY to try to prevent citizens from speaking out against the lack of democracy in Riverside]

Please note the negative thinking by Mayor Loveridge, in punishing anyone who wants to speak by making them wait an indeterminate amount of time to speak. We are speaking of the TAXPAYERS HERE. We are speaking of the people that this CITY COUNCIL IS SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING FOR. Yet citizens are treated rather shabbily, in terms of citizens who wish to make comments as they must spend sometimes as much as FOUR HOURS waiting to give 3 minutes of public comments. No No the real intent is to DISCOURAGE ANYONE FROM SPEAKING WHATSOEVER, because people have lives, families and other commitements and cannot devote hours to make their comments to the Riverside City Council.

Meanwhile contractors/developers/etc. have SPECIFIC TIMES set sometimes, and have their items called first after the awards. It seems that the City of Riverside believes that these people who come to MAKE MONEY in Riverside should be accorded better service than citizens WHO PAY THE SALARIES of the City Council and other City Employees.

The only way a citizen mayaddress any of what may be 20 to 40 separate items listed on the consent calender, some of which are packed with multiple sub-items being decided, is to use up that CITIZENS PUBLIC SPEAKING TIME, which SHOULD BE and opportunity to discuss matters of concern NOT LISTED ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA.

Thereby this item seems to be a veiled suggestion that's BASIC INTENT was to deny citizens there democratic rights to speak to items listed on the Consent Calendar.

Oh you say we can have the items pulled? Well I have on occasion asked for items to be pulled and the City Council members did not pull the items.

Also it seems that giving power to the City Manager, already seemingly all powerful at this time, to determine what goes on the Consent Calendar seems to be a BAD IDEA, as many if not most significant nonrecurring items of concern to citizens across all Wards have been placed on the consent calendar where we cannot have a say. Also the City Council has allowed matters where one would thing there would be a conflict of interest in the City Manager deciding where it should go, like reviews of his performance/salary, have gone on the consent calender where we cannot have a say.

But at least it was listed. Now items, like decisions about Greyhound are buried on the closed session calendar where we do not even know what is going on.

[Dec 3, 2000 VOTE ANYONE BUT Loveridge, his true colors have been shown.]

Brad Hudson City Mgr, demolish a perfectly good bldg worth millions (Demolishing a solid bldg is a bad idea)

2009-11-03T09:58:22-08:00
Reposted from Jan 6 2009 Demolishing a perfectly sound, usable 60,000 sq ft building
Is NOT GREEN thinking and is a careless waste of tax resources.
This will be the SECOND TIME RIVERSIDE tour down a perfectly
good library building, so that Riverside could be more modern.
If Brad Hudson gets to tear down the Riverside Lib. Bldg as he is
suggesting/recommending/and using words like bold/visionary to sway
Riverside City Council members

Brad Hudson, Riverside City Manager's preference for the Riverside Main Library seems to be to to demolish the existing building, a perfectly good 50 year old building, that was DESIGNED to be expanded. At least that is the option that he gave all the WOW FACTOR adjectives to, seemingly to persuade Riverside City Council by flattery and NOT by FACT.

Well Brad Hudson's pockets are not paying for the loss of this good building of about 60,000 square feet may cost well over $12 million to rebuild that amount of usable space, perhaps as much as $20 million perhaps not counting the cost of the land. Not a builder just making some guesses.

So Brad's suggestion is to KNOCK DOWN THE existing building THAT IS SOUND AND COULD BE USED FOR ANOTHER PURPOSE and pay $1 million plus dollars to demolish this perfectly good building.

The loss of a PERFECTLY GOOD BUILDING that would cost ten million or perhaps as much as $20 million or more to REPLACE 60,000 square feet of perfectly useable and functional space, in order to build a new Riverside Main Library of 100,000 square feet somewhere on the same property.

But where is the logic in paying millions more to build a space 100,000 square feet space that is 24,000 square foot smaller than expanding the old library, AND will also cost thousands if not millions more to obtain the high density storage to be able to condense materials/books so that 24,000 square feet may be lopped off the Board of Library Trustees minimum space request of 124,000 square feet to result in Brad Hudsons vision of a 100,000 sq ft building?

Riverside Board of Library
Trustees Preoccupied with Downtown Location,
perhaps to the point of going along with
DEMOLISHING A PERFECTLY GOOD BUILDING.

The Board has not made any decision yet, but it seems the Board is locked into remaining at its current site, where Brad Hudson has basically said his preference is to demolish the existing Library building and build afresh.

If the decision is to build a new building, then the City should find land elsewhere to build the new building, because it is a WASTE OF TAX DOLLARS TO DEMOLISH THIS VERY SOUND and very functional building, which is suited for a multiplicity of purposes. If you spoke with visionaries from UCR, Cal Baptist, Loma Linda, etc. you likely may find many additional possible uses for this facility.

Perhaps even a meeting room or rooms for blind and deaf folks from Riverside, so that they might have another location to gather, reflect, discuss issues or to discuss and display their views on Arts and Culture.

The Library Board of Trustees have said they want to the RIVERSIDE MAIN LIBRARY to remain at the downtown existing location however the library is expanded either by expanding the old or demolishing and building anew. It would seem that the Library Board of Trustees are not concerned about tearing down a perfectly good building, if it turns out that Brad Hudson/City Council votes to tear down the 50 year new building and build a new library in its place. Likely if it was a building they owned, and they were asked to tear it down and replace it with a costly bigger building, they would want to save the existing building for other purposes and build the new building at another location. That is what the REASONABLE PERSON ON THE STREET WOULD DO.

When the Library Board of Trustees made the vote to stay in place, the idea was to expand the exiting library building, and when the existing Main Library Building was built, it was built with expansion in mind in the design of the structure. That was discussed in detail at a past discussion in the Council chambers.

The structure is built on pillars or pilings or equivalent that supports the structure and the sides can be dropped of and the building will remain standing.

The existing building is a wonderful building with nice usable spaces and auditorium. If the Riverside Main Library wants to build a new structure they should FIND ANOTHER LOCATION for the Riverside Main Library, and allow 50 year old Riverside Main Library to be used for other purposes.

What purposes could the 50 year old Riverside Main Library building be used for if the Main Library were to move out to a new building built in another location?

Well I had not thought much about it but here are some ideas:

-- METROPOLITIAN MUSEUM EXPANSION OR HAVE THE METROPOLITIAN MUSEUM TAKE OVER THE WHOLE 50 YEAR OLD LIBRARY FACILITY. Or it could be used in part for an expansion area for the Riverside Metropolitan Museum.

-- USE PART OF THE BUILDING FOR VARIOUS EVENTS AND AS PART OF EVENTS THAT ENCOMPASS THE VARIOUS VENUES IN RIVERSIDE ALL AT THE SAME TIME (Fox/Auditorium/50 year old library auditoriums and selected rooms/etc It could be used for seminars, lectures, and discussions. For example (and this one doesn't exactly fit Riverside but you insert a new topic in place of the example I am speaking of) in Elko Nevada there is an annual poetry reading contest, where there are different venues all over the City of Elko where people go to listen to speakers, attend seminars or educational lectures on topics, have venues to buy and sell items related to the Cowboy Poetry reading and more. This brings in tons of folks from all over American.

If the Main Library was built new on a location elsewhere it could free up the Library building for such venues related to Art, or Culture, Hispanic, Black, Multicultural, an endless possibilities. The auditorium could be put to use and some other spaces for vendors, and other related uses for such events. Of course the Municipal Auditorium could also be in use, and perhaps the Convention Center as well, tho I'm not sure. All used as different venues for a City wide event.

Or as in Palm Springs, they have an international film festival. But that is a ways to drive, and Riverside could put on a film festival that used multiple venues to show different films, perhaps showing them more than once so folks would have a chance to see all the films they would like to see.

Or Riverside already has the Dickens Festival growing, perhaps that festival and the different related interests in music, costume, woodworking, foods, period furniture or whatever could expand this event over time through the various venues.

-- ART CENTER or STUDIOS or ART CLASS SPACE, sort of an expansion of the types of uses at the Arts Building. Perhaps a food/coffee/arts restaurant along the lines of Back to the Grind (or a Back to the Grind II) as a place where folks could go to visit, listing to music, read . . . I don't have a clue if this idea is too far out, but if Riverside is to be a City of Arts and Culture we need MORE ARTS AND CULTURE destination points.

-- Perhaps some of the space could be used for Hispanic/Mexican/Chinese/ and/or Asain History Museum (perhaps this is a subset of the Metropolitian Museum or perhaps not. The first Hispanic Riverside City Council member had a dream of a museum of Riverside Orange Heritage and at the time he told me he said he had photos and items, but those may have drifted away, but this is still an interesting idea.

-- Perhaps some of Riverside's many groups could have meeting space such as the Old Riverside Foundation, etc.

-- Women's Club and League of Women's Voters public forums for Political Candidates, seminars on writing, book readings, etc.

-- Perhaps a Library section would remain where citizens could use terminals to access library materials online, and study, meet to discuss University/College projects.

-- The potential uses are endless, mixed uses.

One benefit of KEEPING THE existing structure of the 50 year old Riverside Main Library should a new Main Library be built elsewhere, is that the citizens of Riverside would retain the glorious grounds in front of the library, the open and refreshing area of trees and plants in our building clogged downtown, the wonderful vistas of the Mission Inn, the charm of all the building together, where the 50 year old main library retreats gracefully into the background and lets the Mission Inn, Pavilion, Museum Building, and beautiful old Unitarian Church provide tremendous character, beauty and charm to this area.

This area is truly refreshing, and the charm and beauty and openness of this area may be forever destroyed if a huge building is erected over the open spaces.

Poorly written but with good thoughts for the future of Riverside hidden within.

Colleen Nicol for Riverside MAYOR, My WISHLIST Candidate (Sorry Colleen's not running, I just wish she was.)

2009-11-03T09:54:35-08:00

Reposted. This was posted March 21 2009 or thereabouts. If COLLEEN RAN FOR MAYOR SHE WOULD WIN HANDS DOWN

Disclaimer. Colleen Nicol has NOT expressed an interest in being the Mayor of Riverside too my knowledge. Also it seems she could not be spared from her City Clerks position and her work for the IIMC.
Also I think Coleen earns more than the Mayor, so why exactly would she want to jump out of her City Clerk position. The City Clerk position just may be the most important position in the City of Riverside as she is the one who ensures things run smoothly and that the documents you submit are added to the record. That said, if Colleen Nicole ran for Mayor, I think I and everyone I know would vote for her.

My Wish List Candidates for Riverside Mayor includes Colleen Nicole

Colleen Nicole is reserved and does great things silently. She has amazing educational credentials and also professional credentials and successes. She is loved and trusted by all. I for one have never heard a word against her (well unless -ou count Frank Schiavone's non-issue-bogus-Davis-wasn't-an-Officer-when-he-really-was-lawsuit that named Colleen, that said I'm sure even Frank loves Colleen and understood that this lawsuit would not mar her reputation)

While our current Mayor politics and works and is focused on being the President of the National League of Cities INSTEAD of focusing on Riverside issues such as NOT ALLOWING the low/moderate income housing to be built along Indiana when he is on the Air Board and knew that to be an unhealth, unsafe area which is essentially defined as an area housing should NOT be placed . . .

Colleen Nicole is fully focused on her work for the City and in 2006 was installed as a Regional IX Director for the International Institute of Municipal Clerks a position she still holds, innovated changes, provides training to other City Clerks, and mentors other City Clerks and Deputies. Read about Colleen's background, education, achievements, and contributions here http://www.wmcaclerks.org/Region%20IX%20Reports/Region%20IX%20August%20Newletter%2006.pdf for which "Colleen was recognized by The International Institute of Municipal Clerks, who awarded Colleen the designation of Master Municipal Clerk and the Quill Award in May of 2002 and she was honored as 2006 Clerk of the Year by the City Clerks Association of California."

If you want to know more about the IIMC this is their website http://www.iimc.com/LatestNews/Region_9/Region_9.shtml The banner on the website is "Professionalism in Local Government Through Education" and I can attest that Colleen Nicole exemplified both to the Nth degree as she is not only doing her Riverside City Clerks job, and her position as IIMC Region IX Director, but she also takes time to speak to and educate local citizens about the workings of the City Clerks office as time permits. I know as she has spoken to our group and came prepared with informative handouts so meeting attendees could share what they learned with others as well. This is a very well put together website as well.

You may not realize the education levels it takes to be a City Clerk, the caliber of Colleen Nicole, but just for your information Colleen holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from CSUSB and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from CSULB.

Colleen Nicole's reputation is worldwide, even tho many local citizens who do NOT follow what happens in the City of Riverside may not know this. Here is the full text of one article I found about Collen on the world wide web on USER NEWS.

USER NEWS

When Boulder City Met Riverside http://www.laserfiche.com/news/archives/2008/12/16/when-boulder-city-met-riverside
December 16th, 2008
The City of Riverside, CA, has been a shining example of Laserfiche in action since implementing Laserfiche in 2001. In fact, due in part to her efforts with Laserfiche http://www.laserfiche.com/news/archives/2008/07/09/riverside-gme/ , the International Institute of Municipal Clerks (IIMC) awarded City Clerk Colleen Nicol the designation of Master Municipal Clerk in 2002.

But in the last two years, Nicol and her staff have shined even more brightly in the Laserfiche Luminary Community by hosting guided tours of their offices so prospective cities can see Laserfiche in action. �We just enjoy sharing our success and trust it will help with their decision making or implementation,� she says.

It has. Nicol and her staff have hosted Bakersfield, South Pasadena, Thousand Oaks and Fontana�all California cities now using Laserfiche. Nicol was faced with an even more interesting opportunity recently when reseller Mike Dillon of National Technology Solutions told her that Boulder City, NV, was looking for new and better ways to utilize its existing Laserfiche program�especially its most recent addition, Agenda Manager http://www.laserfiche.com/news/archives/2008/11/04/boulder-city/ .

�This was the first time we hosted a city that already had the product installed so the conversation there could be more in depth,� Nicol notes.

Pam Malmstrom, City Clerk of Boulder City, was well aware of Riverside�s success. �I met Colleen at the IIMC Region VIII Annual Conference in Tucson, Arizona this year and was impressed with her knowledge and enthusiasm about Laserfiche,� she says. On Dillon�s recommendation and Nicol�s invitation, Malmstrom and her staff paid Riverside a visit.

There, Riverside staff were able to provide in-depth instruction on the use of Agenda Manager and actually provided a manual of user/submitter/approver instructions for Boulder City to take home. Senior Deputy Clerk Cheryl Balz shared some tips for processing agendas, incorporating additional committee agenda preparations, and showed Malmstrom�s staff some tricks with Laserfiche metadata linking to make research easier (see sidebar). The Riverside Police Department showed BC�s PD representative more advanced uses of Audit Trail and other modules, and Roz Vinson offered copies of their structure for BC staff to take home to Nevada. �They were very receptive to our demonstration, had lots of questions for their reseller, and our staff and were excited about their future Laserfiche usage,� says Balz.

Boulder City was understandably grateful for the experience�and emboldened to expand its own use of Laserfiche. Says Malmstrom, �It was great to see how another city used Laserfiche and it reaffirmed our staff was on the right track in setting up our file and information formats in a similar fashion.�

The way Nicol sees it, she�s just paying forward the same service she and her staff were shown when they had their own questions years ago. �I recall how helpful it was to see the installation at Buena Park when we were first considering Laserfiche,� she recalls. �To see the solutions in action in an operating City Clerk�s Office brought the features to life and underscored the efficiencies, work flow improvements, and cost savings.� She�s confident her guest cities take away the same benefits. �At the conclusion of every tour, without exception, the visiting organization emphasizes the value from seeing the product in action and having our team of people who actually perform the work, as well as our technical staff, available to share ideas and solutions.�

Even now, as Nicol campaigns for the vice presidency of the IIMC in next year�s election, where she hopes to continue to inspire other municipalities towards greater efficiency and improved public service, she doesn�t hesitate to offer her office as an example when the opportunity arises. �Whether we�re referred by a reseller or I meet someone at a conference and the topic of Laserfiche comes up, I readily offer to demo the products,� she says. �We enjoy bragging about what a good tool Laserfiche is.�

NOTE THE ARTICLE INCLUDED THIS INTERESTING SIDE BAR

Cheryl Balz, City of Riverside Sr. Deputy
City Clerk, shares a Laserfiche tip
Boulder City took home:

Once you have stored your published agendas into Laserfiche, by clicking on View/View Metadata/View Links, we can add the agenda report and minutes that correspond to a particular agenda. That way when someone does a search and pulls up the agenda, report, or minutes, they can view the links and view the corresponding documentation for that particular meeting without having to do a separate search.

For example, if my search revealed that my item was on an agenda for October 24, 2008 and I previewed the agenda to find out what item number it was, I could then look at the links and go directly to that report number (thanks to our naming convention) rather than search the reports. I could also look at the minutes through the links rather than search the minutes. This saves a lot of time and frustration.

This function is within the repository and is available after we place the .TIFF image of the reports into our folder structure. We could also link any resolution to the minute action if we needed to.

Why did Brad sell the Ab Brown+ properties if the Market is TOO BAD (Something smells in River City)

2009-11-03T09:50:47-08:00
Wording Changed. REPOSTED from Jan 26 2009

During the January 20, 2009 Council meeting, the agenda item about the Library/Museum/Auditorium, I believe Brad Hudson said the City could not generate money for the construction by selling land because the market was too bad and the City would lose money on the land deals, e.g. it is a really bad time to sell property?

So why then did the City Council/Redevelopment Agency at Brad's urgings sell the Ab Brown Parcel and the adjacent properties, in what to me appears to be a back room deal on January 6 (or that is when it was brought up and approved by the City Council).

Now Riverside claims that Riverside had another bid on the Ab Brown Garage property PLUS the Parking lot (total of 3 parcels) sold on Jan 6, but it fell through so Rubin came in with an offer. But how did Rubin know it was available? Sounds to me like a backroom deal. Rubin is said to be a big donor and is said to have given one Councilman $10,000. Maybe he also donated to the others as well. But how was that alleged prior offer made on a property which was not assembled until early December? I personally don't believe the line that there was any public offering. I haven't been shown any paperwork or refered to any public notices of offer for sale.

This seems to be the City favoring a developer that donated to one or more of the City Council, at least someone told me that a Council member running for re election received $10,000 in a prior bid for office from the developer.

The fact that the sale of this property was not widely advertised, put in big headlines in the news paper that is was going to be available makes one wonder.

The item describing in in the agenda was not forthcoming that what was being sold was the Ab Brown Parcel plus the adjacent parking lots.

During the discussion of the item, the Ab Brown parcel was mentioned but to my recollection and at the time I NEVER HEARD any discussion of the adjacent parking lot being added.

To me this is another example of the City Council of Riverside CA being much less than fully transparent, but then perhaps the City Council did not read the backup and did not understand what was being sold.

Look at the wording of the City Council Agenda item. Does it seem TRANSPARENT that the City of Riverside is selling the AB BROWN PARCEL PLUS the parking lot adjacent or a total of 3 parcels totaling around 1 acre? Doe this make it clear that this WAS NOT PUT UP FOR BID on the OPEN MARKET, but was a behind the scenes deal with the Developer Rubin?

The Backup DID NOT ADDRESS ANYWHERE, and make it clear that this property included A CITY PARKING LOT. There was barely mention of the three parcels, and they were NOT LABELED AB BROWN PARCEL, Parking Lot Parcel.

The CITY COUNCIL did not address mitigating the loss of the parking spaces represented by the lost parcels, tho they said perhaps the City might use some of the parking spaces, maybe if the developer was real sweet or something to that effect, BUT NO CLEAR DISCUSSION of lost parking spaces.

THE CITY COUNCIL did not address the obvious, that PRIVATE PROPERTY owned by one party (that had asked to buy the parking lot so they could develop their parcel but were denied by the City or so a family member told me) was taken by eminent domain, assembled with one or more other parcels, THEN SOLD TO ANOTHER PRIVATE PARTY.

The backup did not address whether this property was OFFERED BACK TO THE ORIGINAL PROPERTY OWNERS at the appraised price, as would only be the honorable, fair and transparent thing to do as that property owner stated they wanted to develop the property, if they could only get the parking lot that was an essential item in developing the property.

The backup did not address whether this property was offered to the MUSEUM which was seeking property or to the LIBRARY as a possible alternative.

I touched on many of these items in my brief comments that day on this agenda item. I also rushed home and emailed my comments for the record to the City Council time dated about 6:49 though the Clerk did know acknowledge my comments for the record until the next day. My comments for the record let the City know that I didn't think much of this deal and that the property should have been offered to the Museum.

Overall I consider this agenda item to be underhanded in that with multiple items included in the agenda item, used to muddy what the issue was, and to deny citizens their democratic rights to discuss for three minutes a matter before the council. This item had 5 separate item being decided, including the purchase deal, and adding the item as revenue generating on the redevelopment tax rolls. (Boy I won't be surprised when that income predicted doesn't come in since the building is not constructed and won't be for some time). Please not the Ab Brown Garage site is not mentioned in the agenda item description below, tho I believe a Council person or other official mentioned that this was the sale of the Ab Brown property AND DID NOT CLARIFY that it included the added parcel(s) containing the parking lot. To me this is deceptive as it masks a well known public site was involved in this sale (in the description and the backup as I believe neither mentioned the Ab Brown site), and masks that the sale included a parking lot as that WAS NOT MENTIONED ANYWHERE.

Parking as been a concern in the downtown area, and the City has been getting rid of parking left and right in the downtown area in favor of developers, while denying citizens the additional parking that has been promised. In ALL of the parking meter revenue in the downtown IS NOT GOING TO REPLACE the Parking Garage that was sold AS WAS PROMISED VERBALLY During the meeting, but HALF of that money is being given to a downtown business group to use as they see fit (or thereabouts) fixing up or for events in the downtown area or something to that effect. RIVERSIDE CITIZENS ARE BEING ROBBED OF ONE HALF THE PARKING METER REVENUE which should be going to building parking as was promised. But then Riverside City Council is NOT looking out for the Citizens of Riverside in such matters, as if they were that money could be used to help build the garage needed for the library and museum. The City of Riverside should rescind that agreement to give half the parking meter monies away, and should uses 100 percent of those monies collected for public parking in the downtown, and in particular for the library and for the museum.

Below is an excerpt from the PUBLIC COMMENTS that I submitted by email at 6:49 that day, and which I discussed briefly during the public comments when the item was heard:

3. Joint item with Redevelopment Agency - Development Committee recommends Purchase and Sale Agreement with Regional Properties, Inc., for $1,180,839 to facilitate construction of approximately 120,000-square-foot six-story office building and associated parking structure - 3372 University Avenue - A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Riverside, California approving the sale of real property by the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Riverside pursuant to that certain Purchase and Sale Agreement by and between the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Riverside and Regional Properties, LLC - A Resolution of the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Riverside, California approving that certain agreement of Purchase and Sale and Escrow Instructions by and between the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Riverside and Regional Properties, LLC - Waive further readings (Ward 1)

POSTER NOTE: This is another item where multiple decisions are being made under a single agenda item number.

By burying multiple items under a single agenda items, it blurs what is happening. For example:

-- what is the cost to the citizens of Riverside of the properties being sold. I mean all acquisition costs, demolition cost if any, attorney fees, holding costs, land assembly costs, etc?

-- was this property offered to the general public to the highest bidder?

-- how was the amount in the agenda determined?

-- if this is the property where the Riverside Museum wants to expand, why isn't this land being used for the public good for the needed museum expansion?

-- is the proposed parking adequate?

Does it provide sufficient spaces for all tenants and visitors?

Have the Bicycle Master Plan specifications for bicycle parking, and separate/safe egress and other bike parking considerations been met? Are parking spaces added to make up for any on street parking lost?

Does this parking structure offer any public parking spaces?

If the P-E says vote for Ron that = VOTE FOR ART GAGE (Family theory VOTE AGAINST P-E Recommend)

2009-11-03T09:45:24-08:00
Yep our long standing family theory still holds.

What is the theory? That one may rely on the Press-Enterprise to recommend the people YOU SHOULD NOT VOTE FOR. Whoever the Press-Enterprise recommends, vote for the other candidate. This theory has held true for years and in today's Saturday, Press-Enterprise, it holds true again.

In this case that holds true again.

The Press-Enterprise is recommending that we vote for those who would continue eminent domain abuse, tear down our historic buildings, push for more Renaissance projects as if the current $1.76 or $1.8 billion (increased from the original estimate of around $760 million in less than one year. Humm how much will the debt upon our backs grow, as the entire amount is NOT funded by gas tax, grants, etc. On the contrary, Riverside taxpayers will end up paying a significant portion of this back in the form of payments on bonds and interest thereon etc.), force small business out of the area, take properties on prime thoroughfares for use by private entities, give big developers this land at SIGNIFICANTLY LESS then the cost to buy, demolish buildings, legal fees etc -- essentially giving FREE subsidies to millionaire developers at the expense of the middle class taxpayers of Riverside etc.

The above are my opinions of what is happening.
Below are my recommendations of who to vote for if you want to return the City Council to the people and the right of citizens to pull items from the consent calendar so you can have a say in how your money is spent; if you want to stop the eminent domain abuse, stop the Magnolia Avenue Specific Plan that will contribute to further devastation in the future; to save our small business, and help to return the city to fiscal sanity, I say vote for
On November 3 in the Riverside City Council Elections VOTE FOR ART GAGE

(NOTE Except for the recommendation this was written in 2007, now the debt I understand is $2.2 billion. That is DEBT ON OUT BACKS, and Mayor Loveridge isn't paying it back, he is just spending it!)

Vote for ANYONE BUT Loveridge (VOTE ART GAGE MAYOR OF RIVERSIDE)

2009-11-03T09:29:03-08:00
Ron Loveridge is personable, and likes to speak of his vision.

Lets see, a vision of clean air, but for who? Not for the low income (and maybe some moderate income) housing along Indiana where the City of Riverside in ALL ITS WISDOM built or is building or is fixing up housing for low/moderate income folks where they can enjoy plenty of DEADLY PARTICULATE MATTER, as they are well within what I consider to be the death zone, or at least it has been determined that people SHOULD NOT LIVE WITHIN 1,500 feet of places like the lanes on the 91 freeway. Ron knows this. He likes to talk about his long service on the Air Resources Board (or some similar named Board), but WHO IS HE SERVING because it OBVIOUSLY NOT the citizens who will end up by circumstances in that housing where the air will shorten their lives via cancer for adults, cause asthma in children and more. SHAME SHAME.

I spoke out repeatedly but to deaf ears. Ron did quitely aknowledge that housing SHOULD NOT BE BUILT THERE, but item after item related to acquiring properties along Indiana and building thereon appeared on the agenda, and NOT A PEEP did Ron make in defense of those who were not their to defend themselves (how could they they housing was not built yet).

So I say don't trust and don't elect Ron Loveridge.

He spends hours speaking of the National League of Cities, BUT WHO WANTS SOMEONE IN CHARGE OF THE LEAGUE OF CITIES THAT DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE CITIZENS?

Ron also doesn't seem to want people who ride buses or rely on public transportation to attend City Council meetings. It is not as if he was unaware, because THOSE PEOPLE themselves, and I and others spoke at the City Council podium about this issue, but it feel on Ron Loveridges DEAF EARS. Perhaps he was dreaming about all the time he will spend on NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES BUSINESS, while ignoring basic needs and democratic rights of citizens in the City of Riverside.

I sure hope the LEAGUE OF CITIES does not own any REAL ESTATE, because if Ron Loveridge wins, it will not be good enough, he will spend millions of taxpayers hard earned money ensuring HE is surrounded by plush surroundings.

All you need to do is to step off to the GLARING LIGHTS on the 7th floor, and you will see what contractors for the city see, a place where money is to be WASTED big time, all for the glory and prestige of Ron and others on the 7th floor. (Not someone like our City Clerk or her staff, but those who vote this WASTEFUL USE of taxpayers dollars, despite tough economic times, and in my opinion pretending they have plenty of money when I am told money is being pulled from hither and yon, such as getting rid of the dedicated, longtime parttime workers who restocked the library.

. . . .

You can vote for him, he can win, but it is a VOTE AGAINST THE BEST INTEREST OF MOST RIVERSIDE CITIZENS.

Vote for ANYBODY BUT Loveridge.

This time around VOTE ART GAGE, he is OUR ONLY CHANCE of getting GOBBLE UP SCARE RESOURCES Loveridge out of office.

RICK AVILA, for Mayor In San Bernardino (NO MORE CORRUPTION)

2009-11-03T08:39:33-08:00
RICK AVILA, The new Sheriff in town.

VOTE RICK AVILA, for Mayor, in San Bernardino

Vote ART GAGE for Mayor.. today (In Riverside)

2009-11-03T08:35:41-08:00
The best man for the job.... ART GAGE for Mayor in Riverside...

IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE

VOTE A R T G A G E

Footprint planned for Riverside Main Library, HORRIBLE (UPDATED) (Tell your Riverside Councilman NO NO)

2009-11-03T04:07:21-08:00
Should say it is horrible because of limitations put on the architects by the former President of the Board of Trustees, and by Brad Hudson, e.g. building it in place, not allowing undergrounding of the parking, and not allowing the architects to put more than 82 parking spaces, thereby requiring land at street level to be used as a parking lot rather then library space, but more than that Brad Hudson ensured the library would be TOO SMALL even before they begin building it, by only allowing the Library to have a building 100,000 sf. The former board SETTLED for 100,000 as better than nothing, but that is BAD PLANNING.

The NEW LIBRARY WHERE EVER IT IS BUILT (it should not be built in place) should be at a minimum 208,000 gross square feet, which provides about 146,000 net square feet or stated differently USABLE SQUARE FEET (ie square footage that is not hallways, bathrooms, elevators, custodian closests etc).

Here is the foot print that the CITY MANAGERS restrictions and the FORMER LIBRARY PRESIDENT's restrictions have left us with, a HORRIBLE FOOTPRINT that wipes out tons of the RARE OPEN SPACE in the downtown.

This was the footprint show at the Oct meeting

The above design (or foot print) of Riverside�s new main library was shown at the Oct 26 meeting at Casa Blanca Library regarding preliminary design, included in handouts http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pol/1438759595.html

Text below is taken from renewthelibrary website and is what was discussed at the Oct 26 Board of Library Trustees meeting held at Cas Blanca Library. Formatting/Color/Font/more has been altered below & any typos are mine as are any notes in Red.

Site Constraints:
The design firm, Pfeiffer Partners Architects, Inc. began with a discussion of how they analyzed the existing site. They identified constraints including:

Required setbacks 35 ft along Mission Inn Ave in keeping with neighboring facilities including the Unitarian Church and the Mission Inn; 8 feet along Orange Street to mirror the Mission Inn setback; 20 feet along the Unitarian Church property; 8 feet for planting strips along the parking areas

Need for parking onsite 82 spaces, similar to existing parking lot [ONLY 82 spaces needed, who is kidding who?]

Location of the Chinese Pavilion current location on corner with appropriate [20ft] setbacks matching Unitarian Church

Size of the new Main Library 100,000 square feet [Too small s/b 208,000 gross sf to net 146,000 sf, see below]

Building Size and Mass: The results yielded an available floor plate on the site of 40,950 square feet. In order to achieve a 100,000 square foot building, the resulting building would have to be 2.5 stories tall.

Site Strategy The architects have developed a strategy that
Parking: concentrates the parking at the rear of the building; moves all of the parking to one location instead of wrapping around the building, gives all parking spaces a clear line of sight to the entry; incidentally creates an outdoor event space and allows for future expansion

Access: creates a pedestrian door at the front of the building as well as a parking lot entry, both served by a single service point, provides for an exterior entry point for after-hours public use spaces including a multipurpose or event space.

Building Size and Massing: maximizes natural light entering the library along the perimeter; extends the library presence fully along Orange Street & Mission Inn Avenue; matches the massing of the Mission Inn along both Orange St and Mission Inn Ave.
Design/Program Concepts
There are two design/program concepts under consideration. These include:
Atrium Concept
� indoor, climate controlled atrium [SF, CA used a light atrium concept and did NOT have space for their books]
� two wings of the building join with a very transparent aspect that maximizes transfer of light into the building
� contains a service point, the building lobby and some public space, including readers spaces
Exterior Courtyard Concept
� creates an exterior park-like setting in a controlled environment accessed by library users [library or garden?]
� continues the mission style design vocabulary
� allows natural light into the interior of the library [NOT GOOD FOR BOOKS, but maybe they don�t want books]

Please note on the Renew the library website on this page http://www.renewthelibrary.org/downloads/BenchmarkingNewMainLibraries.pdf it notes that �At that ration, Riverside�s Main Library should be 208,000 gross square feet or about 146,000 net square feet�

I noted that in some of the numbers they were using in benchmarking the average size of libraries for all cities from 100,000 to 500,000 population. Well Riverside is about 300,000 population so we shouldn�t be using an average, we should be in the top 1/3.

Looking at library stats on this page, makes Riverside look pitiful
http://www.renewthelibrary.org/downloads/BenchmarkingRiversideMainLibrary.pdf
Of the 24 libraries listed in the benchmarking only 5 had over 210,000 population (only 2 of these had a populations over 350,000), the majority or 19 had populations smaller than 210,000 (9 had populations of under 150,000). So it seems to me this Benchmarking is slanted toward the lower numbers and smaller sized libraries from the get go.

This helps to support my point that the NEW LIBRARY AS PLANNED IS WAY TOO SMALL.

Please call YOUR RIVERSIDE COUNCILMAN and tell them you don't want to WASTE $40 to 60 million on a library that will be too small, will have inadeqate parking, and which will essentially cost about $1 to $1.5 million FOR EACH ADDITION 1,000 sf (eg $1 million times 40K sf = $40 million OR $1.5 for 40K sf = $60 million) for the "value added" of adding ONLY 40,000 square feet, to the EXISTING 60,000 sf we have now. [UPDATED WORDING]

WOW, RIVERSIDE CITIZENS ARE ESSENTIALLY PAYING $40 to 60 MILLION dollars for 40,000 square feet of space and refreshing the look of the rest. That is TOO BIG OF A TAB. No reasonable person on the street would pay that kind of money for so little. [UPDATED WORDING OF THIS PARAGRAPH]

Anyone whose has watched Home and Garden TV will know that a space an be updated and refurbished for only pennies, not mulitimillion dollar expenditures.

VOTE TODAY (Riverside City, County, S.B., the I.E. )

2009-11-03T02:51:04-08:00
Have questions, Riverside County Registrar of Voting Site is here http://www.election.co.riverside.ca.us/currentElection.asp

Live in Riverside County somewhere but don't know where your polling place is? Check here http://www.election.co.riverside.ca.us/voterInformation/root1103/pollplac.htm It is a list by community and by zip code. Click for information about YOUR polling place.

Interested in Election results but don't know where to check for the numbers?
Check here http://www.election.co.riverside.ca.us/eresults/52/Election%20Result_idx.htm

NOTE TO SELF AND TO RIVERSID COUNTY REGISTRAR OF VOTES

Why exactly when four citizens are legally qualified to be voted for on the ballot or as a write-in, why aren't all FOUR NAMES LISTED in the voting results area? You will certainly be counting votes for all four. Why does this list pretend, at least for now that the two write-in candidates to not exist.

Currently on the Riverside County Registrar of Voters website this is what is shown for the City of Riverside (all other communities are also listed)

Riverside Mayor
0/97 0.00%
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vote Count Percent
RON LOVERIDGE . . . 0 0.00%
ART GAGE . . . . . . . . . 0 0.00%
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 0.00%

It seems that write-in candidates have it hard enough.

It seems that there should be a SINGLE BUTTON folks could click to see WHO ALL IS RUNNING.

It seems that at the polling places THE NAMES OF ALL RUNNING SHOULD BE CLEARLY LISTED TOGETHER, if not on the ballot at each polling station. (don't know how this works.).

Upcoming meetings, High Speed Rail, RTA Service Reductions Disabled/Sr (Various Locations Riverside, S.B.)

2009-11-03T00:49:37-08:00
Friday Morning Club and other public meetings, events, blogs, city websites

UPCOMING MEETINGS

� Nov. 3 3-7 p.m.: Public Meeting high-speed rail route Feldheym Central Library, Kellogg Room, 555 W. 6th St., S.B., CA

Public Scoping Meetings discuss the route of the California high-speed train system from Los Angeles to San Diego via the Inland Empire. http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/images/chsr/20091009102335_SDLAScopingPostcard.pdf The California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority), as the lead agency for the California Environmental Quality Act process, is issuing a Notice of Preparation (NOP) of a project Environmental Impact Report/Statement (EIR/EIS) for the Los Angeles to San Diego via the Inland Empire Section of the proposed California High-Speed Train System (HST).

STOPS on the LA to San Diego section: Los Angeles, City of Industry, Ontario Airport, UC Riverside, Murrieta, Escondido, University City, and San Diego for example. See a MAP here http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/map.htm

TO COMMENT ON THE HIGH SPEED RAIL ROUTE: (1) Speak or Hand-in COMMENTS at the Nov 2 or Nov 3 meetings listed, (2) E-MAIL YOUR COMMENTS with subject line �LA-SD HST Section via the Inland Empire to comments@hsr.ca.gov no later than 5 p.m. November 20, 2009; (3) COMMENTS on the Authorities website http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov, OR (4) by SNAIL MAIL YOUR COMMENTS to Mr. Dan Leavitt, Deputy Director, ATTN: Los Angeles to San Diego Via the Inland Empire Section, HST Project EIR/EIS, California High-Speed Rail Authority, 925 L Street, Suite 1425, Sacramento, CA 95814, to be received no later than 5 p.m. November 20, 2009. For infor call (916) 324-1541

� Nov 6 10 a.m. Friday Morning Club speaker, JULIAN ROSLINE, Coordinator, Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), Senior Corps on topic of SENIOR VOLUNTEERS. Goeske Senior Center, Room D, 5257 Sierra St., Riverside

� Nov 6 2:30 p.m. Finance Committee, Riverside City Hall, 7th Floor Conf Room 1Oth at Main st, Riv http://rivercitycopwatch.blogspot.com/2009/10/drought-appears-over-for-finance.html http://www.riversideca.gov/city_clerk/committees-fin.asp

� Nov 9 10 a.m. Americans With Disabilitys Act (ADA) /Disabled/Seniors Committee Meeting , Bobby Bonds Park Youth Opportunity Center, 2060 University Street, Riverside. This is your opportunity to Protest the DRASTIC CHANGES / COST INCREASES / SERVICE CUTS / Dial�A-Ride scheduled to be implemented Jan 10, 2010. See details here http://www.riversidetransit.com/downloads/promos/DAR_Change_09-10_vWEB.pdf Note citizens who arrive early can speak to RTA officials at 9:30 a.m.

� Nov 9 6 pm PUBLIC MEETING REGARDING RTA SERVICE CUTS (see above) at RTA Headquarters 1825 Third Street, Riverside http://www.riversidetransit.com/home/index.htm http://ridinginriverside.blogspot.com/2009/10/community-meeting-alert.html

� Nov 10* Public Hearing for Final Magnolia Avenue Specific Plan at Riv. City Council Chambers, Main Street at 10th Street, Riverside. *Subject to change, confirm date/time. Learn more here http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pol/1439324335.html

� Nov 13 10 a.m. Friday Morning Club speaker PAUL DAVIS, CITY COUNCILMAN, WARD 4 on City Issues.

� Dec 14 7 am Riversiders Pray for Civility and Unity, Park Ave. Baptist Church Parking Lot 1910 Martin Luther King Dr. Riv. http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/eve/1446389709.html

� Nov 16 5:00 p.m. Board of Library Trustees Public Meeting, regarding Architectural Design of the RIVERSIDE MAIN LIBRARY, Arlington Library, 9556 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside. Meeting structure: Architects Presentation, Public Informal Questions with Architects, Formal Public Comment, and Board Comments and Actions. Source: http://renewthelibrary.org http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pol/1438759595.html

� Nov 20 Friday Morning Club attendees discuss Riverside Main Library, do the plans make sense? City Agenda. No Speaker.

� Nov 27 Friday Morning Club WILL NOT be meeting today, the Friday after Thanksgiving

� Dec 4 Friday Morning Club MEET TODAY at Western Municipal Water District for GARDEN TOUR, NOT at Goeske Center.

� Dec 11 Friday Morning Club speaker is FRANK ROBLES, candidate for Riverside County Sheriff http://robles4sheriff.com

� Dec 18 Friday Morning Club attendees discuss City Agenda Items/issues/ City Charter Reminder next meeting Jan 8

� Dec 25 Friday Morning Club WILL NOT be meeting today, as it is the Christmas Holiday

� Jan 1 Friday Morning Club WILL NOT be meeting today, as it is New Years day.

� Jan 8 Friday Morning Club FIRST meeting in 2010, attendees discuss City Council agenda/City Issues. No Speaker.
� Jan 15 and Jan 22 Friday Morning Club Speaker to be determined

� Jan 29 Friday Morning Club speaker DOUGLAS McCULLOH photographer, true story birth of DREAM STREET suburb in S.B.
http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pol/1443776877.html

Nov 16 at 5:00 pm PUBLIC MEETING RE: RIVERSIDE MAIN LIBRARY (Arlington Library 9556 Magnolia Ave, Riv)

2009-11-03T00:29:31-08:00

URGENT, Citizens Attend Meeting about Riverside Main Library (Tell them YOU DON't WANT IT REBUILT IN PLACE at a cost of 42 to 60 million or more, cheaper to build elsewhere with better outcomes)

Attend upcoming meeting with the Riverside Board of Library Trustees (see info about meeting at the bottom of this post) on Nov 16 and bring copies of your written comments to turn in at the meeting on YOUR VIEWS on the Riverside Main Library

The library being planned will be a lovely white elephant, good for downtown parties, and galas, but it will be SMALLER than the library staff had wanted it; will continue the history of grossly inadequate parking; cost too much; and at the same time requires the destruction of a earthquake designed, sound, solid building that could be repurposed for some other use.

So while Riverside claims to be GREEN it continues to act with disregard for natural resources as well as tax dollars.
Also and most glaring is the lack of opportunities for the public at large to participate in these meetings or to comment, since this was little advertised and there is no email address given for the public to provide comments to the Board of Library Trustees.

Not discussed is the loss of the green open space and trees in front of the library. They were talking about a 20 foot setback from the areas nearest to the pagoda structure, and a 35 foot setback from the street, but that would wipe out a significant portion of open space in a downtown which has essentially no open space, unless you count White Park, and the street that became the mall. The current footprint of structure which is said to be two stories tall toward the front, and three stories further back will block light from the Church next door & also views of the church. It changes and crowds the downtown area.
GROSSLY INADEQUATE PARKING. Parking was an issue discussed BEFORE the existing main library structure was built, but they decided to go ahead and build it with inadequate parking (but then the population was Significantly lower).

Now Riverside is REPEATING THAT MISTAKE with the NEW MAIN LIBRARY being planned , as 85 spaces is not enough, particularly since it seems the Mission Inn and or others have used some/much of those spaces.

The current architect is trying to do the right thing and make good decisions related to the parking and wanted to provide UNDERGROUND parking. That idea would also free up ground level space for library structure to be built. The underground parking would be costly, but then that is where parking goes in an URBAN DOWNTOWN area that is built out. The architect was only going to underground the requested 85 spaces, when many more parking spaces may be possible to put underground (assuming the Mission Inn tunnels don�t go under that area) However the architect was told NO, that they could not consider underground parking due to its cost.

Well if Riverside does not have the money to do things right, then we should wait until we do have the money. This is all assuming we build in place, but that is really a bad idea in the first place.

TOO SMALL. I don�t have the numbers at hand but the library size City Manager Brad Hudson would approve at about 100,000 sf, will be about 25,000 sf smaller than minimum size originally requested by library folks. And that was a low ball request on space needs. So the NEW structure will be inadequate WHEN BUILT, and that will be exacerbated as time goes on and as Riverside�s population grows.

What was approved was (1) the MOST EXPENSIVE OPTION possible (exhorbitant costs that I roughly estimate will cost 1 to 1.5 million dollars for every 1,000 square feet ADDED to the 60,000 sf we presently have), THAT WILL PRODUCE A BUILDING (2) TOO SMALL (3) WITH INADEQUATE PARKING (4) ANTI GREEN destroys solid repurposable structure, (5) The LOWEST COST option that would produce a larger building with adequate parking was not put on the table (6) Decisions made WITHOUT HARD FACTS OR DOLLAR FIGURES (7) Lack of real public participation due to lack of adequate notice to the public at large and no email provided. The decision makers that be, have decided to build a new facility at extremely high cost per square foot, when all costs such as moving, demolition, loss of a sound/solid/ repurposable building is considered. Yet it will really be too small when completed, as they are building it smaller than library staff had wanted. Of course they came up with so called space saving measures, but the bottom line is that more space will be needed for meeting rooms, books, etc. (Also at one meeting they said they may be moving the BOOKS OUT to another location and citizens would order the books. Don�t know if that is still on the table, but that would be an added cost if it is, in the millions, and also would deny citizens the joy of discovering books in the stacks)

The fact that the City allowed NO OTHER OPTIONS than building in place, assured that costs would be exorbitant and that parking would be grossly inadequate once again. Decisions were made to tear down the old building and rebuild in place (requiring the move of library and leasing and outfitting another location) WITHOUT ANY HARD FACTS and WITHOUT REALISTIC COST FIGURES ON THE TABLE. When the decision was made costs which would exceed say $10 million were not disclosed.

This decision is ANTI GREEN as it destroys a perfectly good building that could be used for the Metropolitan Museum that needs more space, or for some other public purpose, such as space for arts groups, artists or ???

Also the current plan WASTES SCARCE FINANCIAL RESOURCES by choosing an option that will be excessively expensive. If built elsewhere, Riverside could have a larger facility at less cost, with adequate parking. One man at the Oct 26 meeting also stated that the new RIVERSIDE MAIN LIBRARY should be built elsewhere such as up University so it could be sized right and have adequate parking. I pointed to the Woodcrest Library as one example. Also one wonders whether they are designing a library or some type of entertainment venue as they are talking about a wall of windows or something to that effect toward the Mission Inn, and gardens and patios which would seem nice for business or social events. But windows are not good for books, and I wonder if the real purpose is to provide a place for the downtown business folks to hold events, rather than a place to conduct library business and library type events with speakers.

And if the community groups were allowed a real say, perhaps the structure could serve myriad purposes, including events such as space for some annual events that need more venue space.

This doesn�t tell all that there is to tell. The costs of moving the building to a new location, building out the space, lease for building and parking will be in the millions. Effectively we will be paying for building out TWO buildings not just one.

PLEASE ATTEND THIS MEETING AND PROTEST THE REBUILDING THE LIBRARY in PLACE. They may have already spent a few million on building in place, but if we STOP THIS LUDICROUS DECISION NOW, in the long run we will SAVE MONEY, and end up with a WORLD CLASS LIBRARY that will be MUCH LARGER, as much as twice as large, with ADEQUATE PARKING so we all may attend functions at the Library. WHERE WILL IT BE LOCATED? Don�t know. Could be somewhere on University, where the Armory is now in Fairmount Park (the City has long been fighting to push the Armory out, and that would be a beautiful location for the library. Parking could be undergrounded. We would have a place for library events and other community events.

Attend this meeting and voice your opinions

� Nov 16 5:00 p.m. Board of Library Trustees Public Meeting, regarding Architectural Design of the RIVERSIDE MAIN LIBRARY, Arlington Library, 9556 Magnolia Avenue, Riverside. Meeting structure: Architects Presentation, Public Informal Questions with Architects, Formal Public Comment, and Board Comments and Actions.
For more info
http://renewthelibrary.org
http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pol/1438759595.html

Listen to what each of the Candidatses say on InstantRiverside.com (Candidates for Mayor of Riverside, CA)

2009-11-02T22:30:49-08:00

Candidates qualified and running for Mayor of Riverside
Thanks to InstantRiverside.com you can listen to the candidates themselves speak to issues/questions put to them by Mr. Craig Fiegener of Instant Riverside. I thought Mr. Stansbury's comments were particularly interesting and on point about what is happening in Riverside today.
CANDIDATES WHO WILL BE LISTED ON THE BALLOT

ART GAGE
VIDEO http://www.instantriverside.com/riverside-ca-news/art-gage-riverside-mayor-loveridge-troy-kent/2009/10/27/
CAMPAIGN WEBSITE: http://www.gageformayor.com/

RON LOVERIDGE
VIDEO http://www.instantriverside.com/riverside-ca-news/ron-loveridge-art-gage-troy-kent-mayor-election/2009/10/29/
CAMPAIGN WEBSITE: http://www.loveridgeformayor2009.com

CANDIDATES WHO ARE RUNNING AS WRITE-IN CANDIDATES

KEN STANSBURY
VIDEO http://www.instantriverside.com/riverside-ca-news/ken-stansbury-art-gage-ron-loveridge-mayor-riverside-election/2009/10/30/
CAMPAIGN WEBSITE: http://www.kenstansbury4mayor.com/

TROY KENT
VIDEO http://www.instantriverside.com/riverside-ca-news/troy-kent-riverside-mayor-ron-loveridge-art-gage/2009/10/21/
CAMPAIGN WEBSITE: http://myspace.com/troy_kent_for_mayor

My recommendation this time around
Vote ART GAGE

Then next time around, if on the ballot
consider Stansbury and/or Kent

NOT Ryan Michaels who is posting on Craigslist to run for a Write-In Candidate did not qualify as a Write-In Candidate. If he wants to run, let him run next time around and let him jump through the hoops to run as an official candidate.

Support Michaels for Mayor (Riverside, CA)

2009-11-02T17:02:06-08:00
My name is Ryan Michaels, I am running for the office of Mayor of Riverside.

I am in fact a real person, and a voter. I appreciate the complexity of some of the beliefs of why I have opted to enter this race. When I spoke to Mayor Ron Loveridge regarding issues of importance I was addressed in a dismissive manor. When I approached Art Gage in regards to the same issues I was offered only a mild response with little to know commitment towards action.

Neither Mayoral candidate seems to care to give straight answers, instead we get more of the same old politics.

Am I viable? Yes. We are all viable and effective members of our community should we so choose to be. Am I supported? Yes, although I may not have the popular vote I am certainly not exercising any effort in futility in making my candidacy known. Instead I am simply trying to educate the voters to their additional options.

It is true, that often write-in candidates are not elected, but does that mean they are not electable?

I love my community, and I will always continue to put my best effort forward to improve my community. I would encourage my opponents to draw similar lines in the sand, and spend more energy promoting good values in themselves and less time pretending to be political by drawing attention to negative aspects of their opposition.

I hope you will continue to support my candidacy and I am thankful for all the response and constructive criticism received regarding this manner.

Sincerely,

Ryan Michaels
Ward 1, Riverside, CA

Nov 14 at 7AM Riversiders (see sponsors) Pray for Civility and Unity (Park Avenue Baptist Church Parking Lot)

2009-11-02T16:46:18-08:00

BRING YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS
CONGREGATION AND CHILDREN

JOIN

RIVERSIDERS OF ALL FAITHS IN PRAYING FOR
UNITY AND CIVILITY

ON

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2009
PARK AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH PARKING LOT
1910 MARTIN LUTHER KING BOULEVARD
RIVERSIDE

7:00 A. M. SHARP

See details on non profit/community groups sponsoring this event and more information on the Inland Empire Craigslist EVENTS post here http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/eve/1446389709.html

Posted on Craigslist by Friday Morning Club as a public service.

Reminder Ryan Michaels is NOT a real candidate, but is a joke (VOTE FOR A REAL CANDIDATE ART GAGE)

2009-11-02T14:40:22-08:00
Ryan Michaels did not get his name on the ballot and is not on the list of certified candidates. SEE FOR YOURSELF HERE http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pol/1447406217.html which provides links to the Riverside County Registrar of Voters

It seems ingenious for Mr. Michaels to try to elict votes when he is not REALLY RUNNING FOR RIVERSIDE MAYOR AT ALL.

Ken Stansbury and Troy Kent did follow the legal procedures to run.

Mr. Michaels, if he really exists, seems to be grandstanding.

Mr. Michaels is demonstrating that he WOULD NOT BE A GOOD CANDIDATE for Mayor, as playing tricks on citizens by asking for votes when he cannot be elected because he did not follow the procedures to run.

Why all Candidates are NOT included in Today's Mayor's Forum (UPDATE: Riverside, CA)

2009-11-02T14:35:04-08:00
UPDATE: I attended this forum and asked why the write-in candidates were not included. The reason they were not included as the organizers were unable to find contact information for these candidates.

My Guess and Take on the Matter is This . . . (I do not speak for the forum sponsors, this is MY opinion)

-- There is a limited amount of time to obtain questions and answers from candidates.

-- Given there is a limited amount of time, one may consider only inviting SERIOUS CANDIDATES, who demonstrated that they were SERIOUS about running for MAYOR by timely filing so their names would be listed on the ballot.

-- QUERY, When if ever did anyone whose was running as a write-in win an election for MAYOR in Riverside. I don't have the answer, but my guess would be never, in Riverside and in most places. It's possible of course, but unlikely in this election as most people don't know that the writeins are even running. Troy Kent will be on CBS today, but how many people in Riverside will see that or even remember his name when the go to vote?

-- I look forward to seeing Ken Stansbury (who does have quite a bit of name recognition in Riverside, but if folks DON'T KNOW you are running or don't remember at the polls then Ken will not get their votes) and Troy Kent's names on the ballot next time around WITH more details on their websites about their positions on the issues.

Vote ART GAGE for Mayor

Art is right it is time for a change. Art will work to put public comments at the BEGINNING of Council meetings so citizens do not have to wait hours to be able to say their 3 minutes of public comments.

Time for Loveridge to enjoy his vactions all over American and to Riverside's sister cities on his own time.

Jan 29 FMC speaker McCulloh re: DREAM STREET an infill development (Janet Goeske Center, Sierra, Riv)

2009-11-02T14:14:13-08:00

Friday Morning Club's guest speaker on Friday, January 29 at 10:00 a.m
Room D, Janet Goeske Senior Center, 5257 Sierra Street, at Streeter in Riverside, CA
Douglas McCulloh, Photographer, Artist, Curator
Mr. McCulloh will speak about DREAM STREET
a true story about the birth of a suburb,
that Mr. McCulloh documented in photographs and personal stories.

About DREAMS STREET and about Douglas McCulloh:

Local News about Douglas McCulloh
-- Inland Empire Weekly feature article, Runnin' Down a Dream http://www.ieweekly.com/cms/story/detail/runnin_down_a_dream/2303/

For detailed background about Douglas McCulloh and about Dream Street, see the Inland Empire Craigslist post in EVENTS http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/eve/1448589600.html

What could we learn from Mr. McCulloh on January 29?
What I would like to know is for HOW LONG did he follow this project?
Have all the house been built?
What human stories were told and how can we learn from those stories?
Have they all been rented?
Were any green building practices used?
What are the lessons learned from this experience?

Friday Morning Club
meets weekly from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Janet Goeske Senior Center, Room D, 5257 Sierra St. (at corner of Streeter). Citizens listen to the speaker of the day, discuss City Council agenda items and other matters of concern . Everyone is WELCOME to attend, meet new people, and become better informed on issues. FREE to attend. FREE parking Questions? Contact the Karen Friday Morning Club Moderator 204. 3252. or use the above email (only check email periodically)

VOTE ART GAGE on Tuesday (Best man for the job)

2009-11-02T13:18:57-08:00
ART GAGE , the ONLY choice.

Vote ART GAGE for mayor, this Tuesday

An Interview With Mayoral Candidate Troy Kent- CBS2 News At 5 (TROY KENT FOR MAYOR)

2009-11-02T13:00:42-08:00
For the 95% of Riverside that supposedly haven't heard of Troy Kent
Watch CBS2 News at 5 today
The CBS interview with Troy Kent will broadcast today, not Art Gage (More of the same), but write in candidate Troy Kent

WRITE IN TROY KENT FOR RIVERSIDE'S MAYOR!
"Out with the old, in with the new"

Nov 2 at 6 pm FORUM set for MAYORAL CANDIDATES (Stratton Community Center, Bordwell Park)

2009-11-02T12:06:02-08:00
Source: Press Enterprise Article Page C3 Oct 31, 2009 hardcopy, likely published Oct 30 online. http://pe.com

Forum Set For Mayoral Candidates
Candidates seeking to become mayor of Riverside will meet at a Monday forum hosted by the Riverside branch of the NAACP. Mayor Ron Loveridge and former councilman Art Gage, the two candidates who will appear on Tuesday's ballot, will speak at the event. Write in candidates Ken Stansbury and Troy Kent also are running

The forum will be from 6 to 7:30 at Stratton Community Center in Bordwell Park, 2008 Martin Luther King Blvd., Riverside.

Loveridge's and Gage's answers to questions about their priorities for the city and their views on government and redevelopment . . .

PLEASE SEE ARTICLE ON LINE for balance of story.
I would have added the direct link but was unable to located it.

Will the Real Ryan Michaels Please Stand Up (Riverside, CA)

2009-11-02T11:09:28-08:00
Greetings,

It is imperative that we have honest leaders with integrity and the courage to consider innovative solutions to the circumstances our community faces.
Riverside is a central hub of commerce and culture in the Inland Empire, we need renewed leadership to help drive the change that allows our community to address the needs of our diverse constituency.

Our current Mayor Ron Loveridge has done a wonderful job in leading the City of Riverside, his only opponent Art Gage has also committed great time and energy to helping direct the future of this community.

Citizens continue to voice concerns for the need for change in this community. It is time for a candidate with the energy and innovation needed to help drive the City in its progress and development.

My name is Ryan Michaels. I believe in the values of this community and it�s constituents. I believe in our ability to affect change. I will strive to bring new passion to the position of Mayor in the City of Riverside, to help drive the energies for improvement already displayed in our City Council. I will emulate the values of our diverse constituents to see that every citizen�s voice is heard in City Hall.

On November 3, 2009 I need your help to bring this message of change to this community.

On Tuesday, November 3rd I am asking you to support me in representing you by writing in Ryan Michaels for Mayor of Riverside.

Thank you for your continued support, together we can bring real change and innovation to our community.

Sincerely,

Ryan Michaels, Riverside Resident, Ward 1
mrrmichaels@gmail.com

Write-In MICHAELS for Mayor (Riverside)

2009-11-02T11:01:35-08:00
It is imperative that we have honest leaders with integrity and the courage to consider innovative solutions to the circumstances our community faces.

Riverside is a central hub of commerce and culture in the Inland Empire, we need renewed leadership to help drive the change that allows our community to address the needs of our diverse constituency. Our current Mayor Ron Loveridge has done a wonderful job in leading the City of Riverside, his only opponent Art Gage has also committed great time and energy to helping direct the future of this community.

Citizens continue to voice concerns for the need for change in this community. It is time for a candidate with the energy and innovation needed to help drive the City in its progress and development.

My name is Ryan Michaels. I believe in the values of this community and it�s constituents. I believe in our ability to affect change. I will strive to bring new passion to the position of Mayor in the City of Riverside, to help drive the energies for improvement already displayed in our City Council. I will emulate the values of our diverse constituents to see that every citizen�s voice is heard in City Hall.

On November 3, 2009 I need your help to bring this message of change to this community.

On Tuesday, November 3rd I am asking you to support me in representing you by writing in Ryan Michaels for Mayor of Riverside.

Thank you for your continued support, together we can bring real change and innovation to our community.
Sincerely,

Ryan Michaels

Michaels for Mayor (Riverside, CA)

2009-11-02T08:25:55-08:00
The thing is Gage,

Ryan Michaels is the only candidate that stands with the people.
We're not interested in another mayor who considers the dias his birthright (since his name
is on everything). We don't want another political hack or good old boy.

We want someone with integrity. With honor. With principles.

No more sundowners club at City Hall!

Ken Stansbury the next Mayor of Riverside (Your Conscience)

2009-11-02T07:15:10-08:00
KEN STANSBURY is the only candidate qualified who is NOT a career bureaucrat. Loveridge has lost touch with the people and Gage would be MORE OF THE SAME. The only real choice for REAL CHANGE is KEN STANSBURY.
http://www.instantriverside.com/riverside-ca-news/ken-stansbury-art-gage-ron-loveridge-mayor-riverside-election/2009/10/30/
http://kenstansbury4mayor.com/

RICK AVILA "No more corruption, No more nepotism (In San Bernardino)

2009-11-02T05:09:18-08:00
The new sheriff in town....

VOTE FOR RICK AVILA, FOR MAYOR... IN SAN BERNARDINO

ART GAGE, Best prepared for the job (In Riverside)

2009-11-02T05:04:16-08:00
It is time for a change... It is time for GAGE

V O T E ART GAGE FOR MAYOR. The only choice

Do not write-in Michaels as there is no such person running (ART GAGE for MAYOR of Riverside)

2009-11-01T21:32:20-08:00
There are four running

But really only two choices, those candidates with their names on the ballot and those two ARE Mayor Loveridge and Art Gage.

Write-in Candidates Ken Stansbury and Troy Kent have NO CHANCE in this election because 95 percent of Riverside's population DO NOT EVEN KNOW these write-in candidates are running for Mayor.

If they at least posted a list on the wall of who is running when you go to vote, maybe. But there is no such list, just the two names of Gage and Loveridge on the ballot.

As to Michael or whatever his name is someone is terribly misinformed, or trying to steal a few more votes from ART GAGE in an attempt to help Loveridge back into office.

"Don't Vote For Troy" Says The One Who Tells You Not To Vote Loveridge

2009-11-01T19:48:04-08:00
WRITE IN TROY KENT FOR RIVERSIDE'S MAYOR!
We have the chance to create real change in Riverside. Why go against an old white male by voting for another old white male?
TROY KENT FOR MAYOR

Do NOT vote for Troy Kent as that = a vote for Loveridge (Vote for ART GAGE Mayor of Riverside)

2009-11-01T19:33:20-08:00
Don't vote for Troy Kent.

His name is NOT listed on the ballot and he does not have a chance to win.

But a vote for Troy Kent or a vote for Ken Stansbury, MAY BE THE VOTES needed to PUSH Ron Loveridge OUT OF OFFICE,

as those could be one of 7 votes needed for ART GAGE TO WIN.

Only about 7 or 12 Votes BEAT BETRO in WARD 1 and only a few votes allowed ADAMS to stay in office when FRIZZEL was the better candidate.

I

Instead Of Picking The Lesser Of Two Evils...Vote Troy Kent For Mayor

2009-11-01T18:58:42-08:00
As mayor, Troy will make sure to listen to everyones problems and troubles in this great city. We deserve a candidate who really knows the problems happening in Riverside and someone who will make a difference in this great city of Riverside.

ON NOVEMBER 3, VOTE TROY KENT FOR RIVERSIDE'S MAYOR!
PS: Troy Kent is a write-in candidate. His name is not on the ballot

Only four running for Riverside Mayor, NO Michaels certified to run. (VOTE FOR ART GAGE MAYOR of RIVERSIDE)

2009-11-01T18:33:09-08:00
On County Registrar of Voters site http://www.election.co.riverside.ca.us/currentElection.asp there are two places candidates are listed

(1) Those candidates who qualified to run in time to have their names listed on the ballot, http://www.election.co.riverside.ca.us/docs/Candidatelist11-09.pdf see pages 13, 14.

In Riverside the only two who did that are
Art Gage

Ron Loveridge

(2) Those candidates who meet the deadline to be included on the CERTIFIED LIST OF WRITE-IN CANDIDATES http://www.election.co.riverside.ca.us/docs/CertifiedListCand11-3-09.pdf

In Riverside the only two who did that are
Ken Stansbury

Troy Kent

Vote for ART GAGE, It IS time for a CHANGE in RIVERSIDE

ART will fight to return DEMOCRACY and the right of citizens to speak at City Council chambers without having to wait an indeterminate time, as much as 3 hours or more to be able for a citizen to express his/her concerns for three minutes.

VOTE for anyone BUT Loveridge
. He talks a good talks, but he doesn't seem concerned about the health and welfare of citizens like those who will be living in the low income housing the city approved and built DESPITE THE FACT THAT MAYOR LOVERIDGE KNEW NO HOUSING SHOULD BE BUILT IN THAT area due to the deadly particulate matters. The standard is no housing within 1,500 feet (or some cities like Riverside might reduce this to 500 feet) of producers of those deadly particulate matter such as the 91 freeway, yet Loveridge did not protest or say anything about many many units of low income housing put along Indiana, of which houses are fully within about 100 feet or 150 feet. These are just some examples. Ron Loveridge is the Mayor who loves to waste our tax dollars, and is high on himself and surrounding himself in luxury at City Hall. Just look at the bathroom redo at the City Council chambers. Beautiful yes, but at a cost of what programs and services?

Keep Ken Stansbury and Troy Kent in mind for the Mayoral election after this one.
They both may be candidate material, however in practice they are just taking votes away from ART GAGE. The bottom line is that we need RON LOVERIDGE out of office now. Somewhere I saw that the downtown City Council redo cost about $900,000 plus. So while RTA is taking away Dial-A-Ride for the blind and disabled in Riverside and Riverside County, MAYOR LOVERIDGE WASTED almost a million on the redo. For example under the guise of meeting disabled requirements the bathrooms were made into Taj Mahal of tile or marble or whatever it is.

This Mayor is all about having elegant surroundings FOR HIMSELF, and has spent tens of millions to make the City Hall comfy and a wow factor for visitors while groups needing money for programs and services are denied funding that they need to provide the services.

So if you vote for Ken or Troy, you are REALLY VOTING MAYOR LOVERIDGE BACK INTO OFFICE. A vote for Ken or Troy is a really a vote for MAYOR LOVERIDGE, and a vote against democratic rights in Riverside.

If Troy Kent as a newbie is really interested in getting into the Mayor's office, HE SHOULD STUMP AGAINST LOVERIDGE and ask people who want to vote for him this time around to vote for ART GAGE.

If Troy Kent or Ken Stansbury REALLY WANTED TO BE MAYOR, their NAME WOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE BALLOT, and because their names are NOT on the ballot and they do not have a warchest to fund a dynamite advertising campaign, they HAVE NO CHANCE OF WINNING THIS ELECTION.
Vote ART GAGE, WE NEED A CHANGE AND ART IS our ONLY OPTION. Just thought you would want to know.

Michaels for Mayor (Riverside, CA)

2009-11-01T16:30:57-08:00
Ryan's getting my family's vote. I only wish we knew about this earlier - we could have
put him in that seat -- no problem!

How about the next council seat?

Four Candidates Running for Riverside Mayor Nov 3 election (Vote Art Gage, Riverside NEEDS a change)

2009-11-01T02:07:00-08:00
See who I recommend at the end of this post
FOUR Candidates Running for Riverside Mayor in the Nov 3 elections

Two certified Write-In candidates, their names will not be on the ballot, you MUST KNOW TO WRITE IN THEIR NAMES

KEN STANSBURY http://www.kenstansbury4mayor.com/

� TROY KENT Troy is using spacebook as his campaign website http://myspace.com/troy_kent_for_mayor more information about Troy below. Troy was interviewed by CBS Channel 5 or KCAL 9 Friday Oct 28 because he is a High School Student just a few months from Graduation running for Mayor. http://www.instantriverside.com/riverside-ca-news/troy-kent-riverside-mayor-ron-loveridge-art-gage/2009/10/21/ http://blogs.pe.com/news/digest/.../write-in-candidate-qualifies-f.html
See also this CL Politics post in the classified ads http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pol/1439429992.html Excerpt Troy Kent supports: Small business, Lower taxes, A decrease in gang activity He's only 18 years old, and he's doing what most teenagers don't do and that's going out and try to make a difference in the community. This is a great inspirational story, and this is a man with good ideas that he really wants to implement as mayor of Riverside.

Only two of the four candidates will be listed on the ballot

� ART GAGE , former Councilman Ward3 http://www.gageformayor.com/

� RON LOVERIDGE, former Councilman Ward 1 http://www.loveridgeformayor2009.com

WHO TO VOTE FOR?
I SAY VOTE FOR ART GAGE

Here are some reasons why . . .

Art Gage has some experience on the Council as former Councilman for Ward 3 has broad knowledge of the City and what is going on within the City of Riverside. He not only will return you calls but does so promptly. He he is politic in dealings with constituents whether or not you agree on a topic. Art will work to spend City dollars with local businesses where possible.

But most important of all is this text that I found on a flyer, which I later found was also on his website is this Open Government - I will work with the City Council to: (a) eliminate the requirement of having audience guests fill out speaker cards before being permitted to address the council; (b) ensure all important items are discussed in public and; (c) schedule open comments at the beginning of the council meeting to encourage more public involvement and; (d) restore our citizens right to pull items from the consent calendar for discussion. We as elected officials must welcome citizens� right to participate, and this right has been severely restricted.

Keep Write-In Candidates Ken Stansbury and Troy Kent in Mind for the next Mayoral Election

We need to use EVERY VOTE to keep Loveridge OUT OF OFFICE this time around

So you need to VOTE FOR GAGE

Tell Ken and/or Troy get their names on the ballot NEXT TIME

We have two write-in Candidates, and I would consider voting for Ken Stansbury, who IS willing to stand up for the people, or Troy Kent who lacks experience but has the interest and seems to want to do the right thing.

But because they are write-in candidates with little opportunity to spread the word, essentially no funding at this time, I am respectfully suggesting that we encourage these two, and consider them at the next Mayoral Election. By that time they will have had a better chance to expand their support base, attend some Council meetings and get more involved. As I say that I choke a bit because Ken Stansbury has been more involved in a few years than most have been in a lifetime, fighting for OUR RIGHTS as citizens to be able to VOTE AS A COMMUNITY as to whether we want to use EMINENT DOMAIN or the THREAT thereof to take properties from one citizen then sell it to a developer as has occurred repeatedly under Mayor Loveridge's watch. Mayor Loveridge did nothing, to my knowledge to protect the citizens and long time businesses whose properties/business were impacted by the more than 100 takings under Eminent Domain or threat thereof, or perhaps they agreed because they could see the writing on the wall and did not want to bother.

VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT MAYOR RON LOVERIDGE

Why?

- RON STOLE THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO SPEAK Loveridge has robbed Riverside citizens of their democratic right to speak at public comments, due to his efforts to move public comments to the end of the meetings.

- RON ATTENDS MEETINGS, BUT GIVES ONLY LIP SERVICE TO CLEAN AIR PRINCIPLE, IN PRACTICE HE IGNORES THOSE PRINCIPLES

Loveridge who is on the Air Quality Boards etc, or something of that nature, SAT LIKE A STUFFED DUCK as the Council repeatedly approved items on the agenda that will put LOW INCOME people living in what amounts to a DEATH ZONE, or at the least an unhealthy zone where it is likely that children may develop asthma, and adult cancers due to the high levels of particulate matter. But he doesn't care, his friends and family, I presume are not going to be living in that deadly area. I raised this issue several times at City Council, and one time he did, to his credit, acknowledge that housing should not be built in that area, but he did so quitely, with his head down and NEVER TO MY knowledge made any attempts to cease and desist on that project and turn it into some other more appropriate use. Yes we are talking about that low income housing project on a very long block on Indiana that backs up tothe 91 freeway.

- RON LACKS THE VISION TO SAVE THE MAIN LIBRARY BECAUSE IT IS THE RIGHT AND GREEN THING TO DO. RON CANNOT SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES, AND WE CITIZENS WILL PAY GRANDLY FOR A NEW MAIN LIBRARY THAT IS TOO SMALL BEFORE BUILT, HAS GROSSLY INADEQATE PARKING, BOTH FACTORS OF WHICH WILL BE EXPONENTALLY IMPACTED BY OUR POPULATION INCREASES, AND IRONICALLY HE WILL HAVE CUT DOWN MANY MORE OF THE FEW TREES LEFT IN THE DOWNTOWN TO TO IT. Ron claims to be GREEN but has done nothing to stop the pending fiasco with the Riverside Main Library where the cost to Riverside Citizens to add about 40,000 more than the 60,000 sf we have will cost from 42 or more like 60 million dollars. Now they will actually be building 100,000 sq feet, but they need to TEAR DOWN A PERFECTLY GOOD building to do so, one designed for earthquakes, one that could be repurposed and used by the Museum by the Arts community etc.
Let

LETS LOOK MORE AT THE MAIN LIBRARY ISSUES

s see all we are really getting is about an extra 40,000 sf from what we have now. Think about it you are paying about $1 million or $1.5 million per 1,000 square feet for that extra space.

Is it worth it? NO NO and again NO. Furthermore it is a white elephant before it even is built, that is if you want it for its Function as a RIVERSIDE MAIN LIBRARY.

-- it will be only 100,000 sf, which is smaller than the 125,000 sf the Library folks wanted until our City Manager told them they could only have 100,000 (WHO MADE HIM GOD). That 125,000 WAS A LOW ESTIMATE OF THE REAL NEED. So what we will have, is a Library that is TOO SMALL before it is even built.

-- it will lack adequate parking or anything close to reasonable parking. They will only provide 85 parking spaces, many of which I assume employees will use. If they can keep the Mission Inn out of those parking spaces perhaps their will be a space or two left for you and me. As it is planned as a venue space for speakers, public forums, they need many more parking spaces then that.

BUILDING IN PLACE REPEATS HISTORY BY BUILDING THE MAIN LIBRARY WITHOUT ADEQUATE PARKING, BUT THIS TIME THE MISTAKE WILL BE UNCONCIONABLE DUE TO THE DIFFERENCE IN THE CURRENT AND PROJECTED POPULATOIN OF RIVERSIDE Consider before the EXISTING LIBRARY they too knew that library would lack adequate parking, yet they built it anyway (remember there were far fewer citizens in Riverside then). Now forward to a City with hundreds of thousands more residents, which is building a library to last out into the future, and you can see that a MAIN LIBRARY with 85 parking spaces will not well serve future population in the City (don't have actual extimates, but I assume we could be talking about 600,000 to a million in the future here in River City).

-- It will destroy one of the only TWO real open spaces in the downtown (the downtown mall, despite its name is really just a city street). We need to retain that open space and those wonderful trees that help our very poor air quality. Those trees should stay up.

-- DECISIONS WERE MADE WITH GROSSLY INCOMPLETE INFORMATION, SOME MAJOR COSTS NOT DISCLOSED, and never penciled out prior to the decision being made The decision to build in place was made without any REAL DATA on costs. For example, Brad Hudson FORGOT To mention the multi million dollar cost of a temporary building, the buildout thereoff, the moves back and forth, and [the cost to demolish the existing library not sure if this was or was not included] and certainly did not mention the big hole on Riverside real property wherein we would lose a 60,000 sf building worth a bundle, tens of millions of dollars down the drain.

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES PRESIDENT and BRAD HUDSON BLOCKED numbers being generated for the option of building the main library elsewhere. WHY? BECAUSE IF PENCILED out it would have been PROVEN to be a VASTLY SUPERIOR option. So decisions were made by without HARD INFORMATION incluidng considering other options, such as building the library elsewhere.
BEST OPTION IS TO BUILD THE RIVERSIDE MAIN LIBRARY ELSEWHERE
If this option was considered you might consider putting the library where the ARMORY IS (the City has been working to force the National Guard ARMORY for a long time) in Fairmount Park, or along the main road, where you would not put park activities for example or perhaps on University or perhaps on all the land the City has forced people to sell next to the Magnolia Avenue Grade Crossing. There will be a large piece of land there. Center Lumber that has 1/2 to 1 acre or more is being forced to leave and most of that land will be leftover when the Railroad Grade Crossing is completed.

The benefits of this option

-- ADEQUATE PARKING

-- MORE BUILDING FOR SUBSTANTIALLY LESS COST The library would be twice as large perhaps, for the same amount of money, or even half the money, if the LIBRARY WAS BUILT AT ANOTHER LOCATION.. Say 200,000 sf rather than only 100,000 sf, and could therefore would have more flexibity and could serve more programs.BRARY, say 200,000 sf, which could serve both library and public meeting purposes.

If built in place, the Downtown Chamber of Commerce folks will have a nice place to meet and hold events, at the expense of the rest of the City of Riverside.

RIVERSIDE WOULD HAVE A WORLD CLASS LIBRARY IF IT WAS IN A NEW LOCATION, and RIVERSIDE COULD REPURPOSE THE EXISTING MAIN LIBRARY STRUCTURE FOR ANTOHER USE, SUCH AS THE EXTRA SPACE THE MUSEUM NEEDS OR AS A BUILDING FOR THE ARTS COMMUNITY (BROADLY DEFINED)

VOTE FOR ART GAGE,
ART's RIGHT
ITS TIME FOR A CHANGE
AND OUR BEST CHANCE
FOR A CHANGE
IS ART GAGE

Back by popular demand Riverside's two BEST BLOGS (Learn what's happening in Riv and the IE)

2009-10-31T23:37:21-07:00
Wow, someone flagged my about these two blogs twice now. WHOEVER IS DELETING THESE POSTS does not believe in Democracy, because both blogs provide Riverside citizens, and also citizens in Southern California information on what is happening politically in these areas. If you don't hear about meetings you cannot attend and have your say. These blogs are a very valid and appropriate post in the Politics forum as that is where citizens may go to get information about current issues, links to source documents, learn about upcoming meetings related to City Council, Transit, Police or other matters. The only one's who would want to flag this post, would be someone doing things they should not be doing, or conversely folks that do not take the actions they should to protect citizens rights, or they are wasting our tax dollars, or are trying to cover something up, etc. This is the text that was deleted.
Useful blogs or websites
Five Before Midnight blog http://rivercitycopwatch.blogspot.com Learn about what is happening in the City of Riverside, City politics, City Council, Riverside Police issues and also other matters in the Inland Empire and also Police matters nationwide.

Each blog is VERY LONG. New topics are separated by wide blank spaces. Scan down the blog reading the top paragraph of each new topic to find topics of interest.

Riding in Riverside http://ridinginriverside.blogspot.com This is an amazing blogger that is a student at UCR. See the blog for background on this blogger. Blogs about transit issues in and around Riverside and Southern California. Topics include local buses, Metrolink, Greyhound, Bicycles, Regional Transit Center, online information about transit, trains, interconnections between these modes of travel and more.

Riverside has a real treasure in these two bloggers who provide so much good information, with links to sources so you can do further research yourself. END of TEXT THAT WAS DELETED. Should say I do not benefit financially or otherwise from posting this information about these two blogs, other then doing what I do in life which is spread around information to people who need that information. I was not asked to post this information, but do so as it is the purpose of CL to allow the little guys to get the word out on various issues, which is not printed in the local Press, which is now a bigger deal than ever since Haberman is gone (to greener pastures in his case) and many other reporters recently let go. It seems there is almost no one left to report matters in Riverside.

Write-In Michaels for Mayor (Riverside)

2009-10-31T14:43:22-07:00
Michaels for Mayor: Write in Ryan Michaels on Tuesday November 3!
Change and Innovation for Riverside!

Find your polling place-http://www.voteinfo.net/voterInformation/root1103/pollplac.htm

Let's show Riverside that Patients and Advocates DO vote and our vote matters! Write in Ryan Michaels for Riverside City Mayor.

Angela Smith, Campaign Manager
Michaels for Mayor, 2009

3 SUPES LEFT & COUNTING

2009-10-31T12:30:46-07:00
Bob Buster had a mental meltdown and hope is he will be able to return to full duty but
the jury is still out.This one is being kept under wraps but some hospital staff say he is up
and barking orders and back to his old nasty self

"Free" Health Care Coutesy of Uncle Sam (US)

2009-10-30T08:49:43-07:00
For 40 years nearly 400 black men got �free� health care, with the result that they became human guinea pigs so that government researchers, with the full knowledge and approval of the Surgeon General and the complicity of other blacks, could determine whether syphilis affects blacks differently from whites. Their treatment? A placebo to permit the disease to continue to afflict them.

What more might our benevolent government accomplish at our expense?

Other lovely examples:
1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.

1935 The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occured within poverty-striken black populations.

1940 Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to
combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust.

1942 Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty.

1943 In response to Japan's full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD.

1944 U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.

1945 Project Paperclip is initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United States.

1945 "Program F" is implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched in the name of national security because of fear that lawsuits would undermine full-scale production of atomic bombs.

1946 Patients in VA hospitals are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions, the order is given to change the word "experiments" to "investigations" or "observations" whenever reporting a medical study performed in one of the nation's veteran's hospitals.

1947 Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.

1947 The CIA begins its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge.

1950 Department of Defense begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates.

1950 I n an experiment to determine how susceptible an American city would be to biological attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San Franciso. Monitoring devices are situated throughout the city in order to test the extent of infection. Many residents become ill with pneumonia-like symptoms.

1951 Department of Defense begins open air tests using disease-producing bacteria and viruses. Tests last through 1969 and there is concern that people in the surrounding areas have been exposed.

1953 U.S. military releases clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley in Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia. Their intent is to determine how efficiently they could disperse chemical agents.

1953 Joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in New York and San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii.

1953 CIA initiates Project MKULTRA. This is an eleven year research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological agents that would be used for mind control and behavior modification. Six of the subprojects involved testing the agents on unwitting human beings.

1955 The CIA, in an experiment to test its ability to infect human populations with biological agents, releases a bacteria withdrawn from the Army's biological warfare arsenal over Tampa Bay, Fl.

1955 Army Chemical Corps continues LSD research, studying its potential use as a chemical incapacitating agent. More than 1,000 Americans participate in the tests, which continue until 1958.

1956 U.S. military releases mosquitoes infected with Yellow Fever over Savannah, Ga and Avon Park, Fl. Following each test, Army agents posing as public health officials test victims for effects.

1958 LSD is tested on 95 volunteers at the Army's Chemical Warfare Laboratories for its effect on intelligence.

1960 The Army Assistant Chief-of-Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) authorizes field testing of LSD in Europe and the Far East. Testing of the european population is code named Project THIRD CHANCE; testing of the Asian population is code named Project DERBY HAT.

1965 Project CIA and Department of Defense begin Project MKSEARCH, a program to develop a capability to manipulate human behavior through the use of mind-altering drugs.

1965 Prisoners at the Holmesburg State Prison in Philadelphia are subjected to dioxin, the highly toxic chemical component of Agent Orange used in Viet Nam. The men are later studied for development of cancer, which indicates that Agent Orange had been a suspected carcinogen all along.

1966 CIA initiates Project MKOFTEN, a program to test the toxicological effects of certain drugs on humans and animals.

1966 U.S. Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates.

1967 CIA and Department of Defense implement Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed to maintain, stockpile and test biological and chemical weapons.

1968 CIA experiments with the possibility of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into the water supply of the FDA in Washington, D.C.

1969 Dr. Robert MacMahan of the Department of Defense requests from congress $10 million to develop, within 5 to 10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which no natural immunity exists.

1970 Funding for the synthetic biological agent is obtained under H.R. 15090. The project, under the supervision of the CIA, is carried out by the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, the army's top secret biological weapons facility. Speculation is raised that molecular biology techniques are used to produce AIDS-like retroviruses.

1970 United States intensifies its development of "ethnic weapons" (Military Review, Nov., 1970), designed to selectively target and eliminate specific ethnic groups who are susceptible due to genetic differences and variations in DNA.

1975 The virus section of Fort Detrick's Center for Biological Warfare Research is renamed the Fredrick Cancer Research Facilities and placed under the supervision of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) . It is here that a special virus cancer program is initiated by the U.S. Navy, purportedly to develop cancer-causing viruses. It is also here that retrovirologists isolate a virus to which no immunity exists. It is later named HTLV (Human T-cell Leukemia Virus).

1977 Senate hearings on Health and Scientific Research confirm that 239 populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Some of the areas included San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.

1978 Experimental Hepatitis B vaccine trials, conducted by the CDC, begin in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ads for research subjects specifically ask for promiscuous homosexual men.

1981 First cases of AIDS are confirmed in homosexual men in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, triggering speculation that AIDS may have been introduced via the Hepatitis B vaccine

1985 According to the journal Science (227:173-177), HTLV and VISNA, a fatal sheep virus, are very similar, indicating a close taxonomic and evolutionary relationship.

1986 According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (83:4007-4011), HIV and VISNA are highly similar and share all structural elements, except for a small segment which is nearly identical to HTLV. This leads to speculation that HTLV and VISNA may have been linked to produce a new retrovirus to which no natural immunity exists.

1986 A report to Congress reveals that the U.S. Government's current generation of biological agents includes: modified viruses, naturally occurring toxins, and agents that are altered through genetic engineering to change immunological character and prevent treatment by all existing vaccines.

1987 Department of Defense admits that, despite a treaty banning research and development of biological agents, it continues to operate research facilities at 127 facilities and universities around the nation.

1990 More than 1500 six-month old black and hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an "experimental" measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was experimental.

1994 With a technique called "gene tracking," Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm veterans are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasma incognitus, a microbe commonly used in the production of biological weapons. Incorporated into its molecular structure is 40 percent of the HIV protein coat, indicating that it had been man-made.

1994 Senator John D. Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least 50 years the Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances. Materials included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and drugs used during the Gulf War .

1995 U.S. Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological warfare research.

1995 Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections.

1996 Department of Defense admits that Desert Storm soldiers were exposed to chemical agents.

RICK AVILA for Mayor, The best choice (In San Bernardino)

2009-10-30T08:48:34-07:00
STOP CORRUPTION... IN SAN BERNARDINO

VOTE RICK AVILA FOR MAYOR

The Riverside/IE story is not all rosy as some might want you to think

2009-10-30T07:52:33-07:00
Below are some excerpts from the Inland Empire wikipedia . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Empire_%28California%29

AIR, TRAFFIC, ACCIDENTS, UNHEALTHY (But The City of Riverside would have you believe this is the best place to live. I like it but the air here is killing me)

Excerpts, but see the source above for embedded links, full context . . .

Another problem is the jobs vs. housing imbalance. In general, most of the higher paying jobs are located in Los Angeles and Orange County. Thus, workers must commute daily up to two hours (each direction) on the existing network. As the population increases, the problem is most certainly going to increase as well. Forbes Magazine recently ranked the area first in its list of America's most unhealthy commutes, beating out every other major metropolitan area in the country, as Inland area drivers breathe the unhealthiest air and have the highest rate of fatal auto accidents per capita.[30]

Lets see what did Forbes Magazine have to say http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_Magazine

Riverside/San Bernardino/Ontario ranked 32 our of 40 with 1 being the lowest rates of violet crime, workplace deaths, fatal crashes, and natural disasters. http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/26/safest-cities-ten-lifestyle-real-estate-metros-msa_chart.html?partner=popstories The 40 were those metro areas with the lowest rates of Crime. However the area has the highest rate of traffic accidents pre capital according to the first source listed above.

On Public Transportation (Public Transit) Public Transportation

The Bi-County region, unlike many major metropolitan areas, does not highly depend on public transportation. Less than 5% of the IE's 1,249,224 working-age residents use public transportation to get to work each day.[35]
NOTE It may be that this number has improved with the advent of the fee RTA bus passes.

Get LOVE-BRICK out of there... (It is time for a change in Riverside)

2009-10-30T07:52:29-07:00
IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE.... Love-brick is been in tooooooooo long and NO NEW IDEAS
LOVE-brick DOES NOT LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE..

On November the 3 VOTE ART GAGE... the best choice for Mayor in Riverside

Keep Your Shopping Bucks Local . . . (Buy campaign signs in Riv. NOT Santa Ana)

2009-10-30T00:43:17-07:00
In the INLAND EMPIRE WEEKLY http://www.ieweekly.com

Do As I Say . . .
Keep Your Shopping Bucks Local, Riverside says�but the mayor�s spending elsewhere?!

By: Diego DuBois
http://www.ieweekly.com/cms/story/detail/do_as_i_say/2794/

Excerpts

The City of Riverside has recently undertaken a crusade to encourage its residents to �Shop Riverside.� A sophisticated media campaign including a glossy mailer, an online video, a discount card and an elaborate website are all part of the effort to �increase your investment in your community and ultimately improve your quality of life.�

. . .
And to whom did Mayor Loveridge turn for the printing of these election-era eyesores? Surely to one of the many qualified, affordable print shops in the City of Riverside, right?

Right?

So, sir. Some of Loveridge�s lawn signs were printed by COGS South Signs, a print shop based in Santa Ana. Although COGS does not appear anywhere in the Mayor�s campaign disclosure firms, there�s no way to deny it�the signs themselves are printed with the firm�s logo and telephone number, according to The Press-Enterprise�s Dan Bernstein . . .

. . . Loveridge described shopping Riverside as the �most important� part of an overall effort to get the city out if its economic doldrums, during a Jan. 22 �State of the City� speech. . . .

. . .

But signs are not the only expenditures being made beyond city limits. The Loveridge campaign also spent $2,500 with the Burbank-based Gallop Creative, $700 with Corona-based Darin Schemmer and nearly $200 with the Garden Grove-based Visteva, all of whom provided nebulous-sounding �web services,� according to public records. Another hefty chunk of change, $10,000 to be exact, went to a consultant who apparently lives in a tiny metal box in the city of Palm Desert, . . .

San Manuael Tribe has been good to IE and generous to those in need (San Manuel Band of Mission Indians)

2009-10-30T00:21:05-07:00

Over time I heard repeatedly of the generosity of the San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians in helping those suffering from Disasters both in our area, elsewhere in the U.S. and to others overseas, but I had not found this http://www.sanmanuel-nsn.gov/news.phpSan Manuel News link that provides news about the Band, including their many generous good will donations.

The San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians sets up a bar on generosity and caring for others, that other IE communities may want to emulate, given the opportunity to do so.

TAKE A LOOK . . .

In July 2009, the San Manual Band of Mission Indians contributed $100,000 for the development of a skate park at Speicher Park in the City of San Bernardino . . . where many of the youth in the surrounding neighborhoods were at-risk and in need of positive after school activities.

In May 2009 the San Manual Band Band of Mission Indians donated $500,000 toward the building of Veronica's Home of Mercy II in San Bernardino, an 80 Bed -- 15,000 square foot women's and children's shelter.

(Poster NOTE: I recall that during the Fires the City of Riverside made some donation, cannot recall the exact amount, but it could have been $20,000 or maybe $100,000, but I recall thinking that the donation wasn't in keeping with the level of the disaster, particularly when you consider the the City of Riverside over time has given UCR monies for this or that that I believe range into the million mark if not more.)

Well the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians donated $1,000,000 for the fire efforts. CALIFORNIA TRIBAL GOVERNMENT STEPS FORWARD WITH $1,000,000
FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRE RELIEF EFFORTS
San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians Designating Funds to Support
Evacuees Displaced by Regional Firestorms and Fellow Tribal Nations
Download in PDF format. http://www.sanmanuel-nsn.gov/press_releases/FIRE_RELIEF_FINAL.pdf

The American Red Cross recognized the San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians caring/donations by giving the San Manuel a Prestigious Award
Inland Empire Chapter Recognizes San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians for Supporting Disaster Relief Efforts of the Red Cross
Download in PDF format. http://www.sanmanuel-nsn.gov/press_releases/6-19-08_%20ARC-InlandChapter-Release-19Jun08-FINAL.pdf
It wasn't an award for a one time donation but was for "special recognition for the tribe's long-standing commitmentto the American Red Cross (ARC) mission of providing relief and assistance in times of disasters affecting the people of the Inland Empire . . . as well as nationally.
Click on the link to read some of the details.

Some other donations supported Marine Toys for Tots Foundation for underprivileged Children, partnered with the School Board to build a Field of Dreams for a High School, contributed to Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita Relief efforts, cosponsored, with Arizona Tribes, an Extreme Home Makeover for the family of Lori Piestewa, the first Native American woman to die in combat while defending her country during Operation Iraqi Freedom, donated an additional $5.5 million to the City of San Bernadino for local improvements, donated $3 million of the $18 million cost of the new student union at Cal State San Bernardino. By the way that $18 million bought an 83,000 square foot facility source: http://www.sanmanuel-nsn.gov/press_releases/CSUSB%20Ground%20Breaking%20News%20Release%2010-1-04.pdf

(POSTER NOTE The RIVERSIDE MAIN LIBRARY, planned at about 100,000 feet is expected to cost OVER $42 MILLION, and with the costs of moving, demolition, a buildout of a temporary location, move, lease for building and parking, I am guessing (somewhere I have old numbers I worked up) the cost will be closer to $60 million. Remember ALL THE CITIZENS OF RIVERSIDE ARE GETTING for those millions is 30,000 or 40,000 sq ft more space than the existing structure. So if you take the added space and divide it by the ALL costs related to tearing down the old and building new in place, you have a WHOPPING HIGH $$ PER SQ FT, for the few additional sq ft being added. The COST is outrageous.)

The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians also donated $200,000 to the San Bernardino Valley Lighthouse for the Blind, In Oct 2003 donated $1,000,000 to aid wildfire victims, NOTE THAT THIS WAS IN ADDITION TO THE $1,000,000 donated in 2007 for Souther California Fire Relief Efforts.

Jan 19 FMC speaker Douglas McCulloh about DREAM STREETS infill dvlpmt (Goeske Senior Center)

2009-10-29T20:30:04-07:00

Friday Morning Club's guest speaker on Friday, January 29 at 10:00 is

Douglas McCulloh, Author and Photographer will speak DREAM STREET a true story about the birth of a suburb, and the human story surrounding it, the history of the land back to Japanese farmers growing strawberries, up to some of the ~136 homes being built. I think there may be some lessons learned that we in Riverside may learn from, and use in future developments, redevelopments, infill.
For background information bout Douglas McCulloh, and background on the DREAM STREET true story which was documented in a book, see the Craigslist EVENT POST about this Friday Morning Club speaker http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/pol/1448589600.html

Lots of links and interesting information.

Friday Morning Clubmeets weekly from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Janet Goeske Senior Center, Room D, 5257 Sierra St. (at corner of Streeter). Citizens listen to the speaker of the day, discuss City Council agenda items and other matters of concern . Everyone is WELCOME to attend, meet new people, and become better informed on issues. Questions? Contact the Karen Friday Morning Club Moderator 204. 3252. or at the above email

craigslist | politics in inland empire

Freedom from TAXES (Marie Callendar's in Victorville, CA)

Riverside, CA Joins Tea Parties Against Illegal Immigration

City wants your input on survey about Strategic Vision for Riverside (Riverside, CA BE A PART OF IT!)

ALL Closet Racists

ALL PRIVATE BUSINESSES (EVERYWHERE)

Car detailing? (IE)

Re: Deja Vu again (America)

Your Tax Money Wasted

Riverside Mayor write-in results (politics)

Deja Vu (facts)

re re re: deja vu to a solider - (america)

RERE: RE: RE: Deja Vu All Over Again (earth)

re re re: deja vu to a solider (america)

RE: RE: RE: Deja Vu All Over Again (earth)

Re: RE: Deja Vu ... (to a soldier)

RE: RE: Deja Vu All Over Again?

RE: Deja Vu All Over Again?

Re: Are all Whites Racist Or Just some

Deja Vu All Over Again?

Re: Racist (America)

Are all Whites Racist Or Just some.

Are all Mexicans cowards or just most? (America)

Government Paid Killers (Here and Abroad)

re: joe and jose

Joe & Jose (America)

Dec 4 Friday Morning Club will meet at the Western Municapal Water Dst (Mission Grove Blvd at Alessandro, Riv.)

Garden Facts:

Water-wise Seminars and Events

Useful blogs or websites

Friday Morning Club meetings, blogs, city websites, and Council Email Addresses

Voice your opinions on on the RIVERSIDE MAIN LIBRARY via email to all below�. Email Addresses for City Council, Mayor, City Clerk (send it for the RECORD at the next CC meeting)

Friday Morning Club

Riverside Main Library, learn what is happening (Riverside do NOT build in place.)

Nov 16 5 pm PUBLIC MEETING about Riverside Main Library replacement (Arlington Library,9556 Magnolia Ave. Riv)

Stop the building in place New Main Library, save that building and build the new Library elsewhere -- a MUCH LARGER LIBRARY at half the cost

Rebuilding Riverside Main Library in place is a DUMB and COSTLY idea (As built it will be TOO small, 82 parkin)

TShirts & banners for your political events (IE)

DID YOU KNOW THIS? (U.S.A.)

December 13, 2009 California Candidates Fair (Riverside County, CA)

Bicycling in Riverside and beyond. Political? (Riverside needs to pass ordinances)

Bicycling in Riverside, CA &Beyond AND Riverside needs to pass ordinances to pass the details of the Riverside Bicycle Master Plan, so that new parking garages, business buildings, apartment/condo/townhouses other buildings will have the required parking for bicycles and egress.

JOE LEGAL vs. JOSE ILLEGAL (AMERICA)

Write-in tallies may be released in Registrar's Friday 5:00 update (Riverside tally of write-in for Mayor)

Re: Write-in tally

Reminder Nov 6 FMC speaker is Rosine, RSVP, Senior Corps (Topic is Senior Volunteers)

Nov 6 at 10:00 a.m. Friday Morning Club speaker is

JULIAN ROSINE, Volunteer Coordinator Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), Senior Corps, Serving Western Riverside CountyMr. Rosline will speak about Senior Volunteer Issues/opportunities/programs

More about Mr. Rosine and RSVP, Senior Corps

From a brochure: Work Wonders with Your Experience

A Range of Opportunities

RSVP = Results

With RSVP you's receive pre-service orientation, traning from the organization where you serve, and supplemental insurance while on duty.

Useful blogs or websites

Friday Morning Club

Write-in tally, semi-official (Riverside)

Get involved -- Frank Robles for Sheriff (Riverside County, CA)

WRITE-IN VOTES NOT YET COUNTED (Riverside, CA)

The Mayoral election was conducted on November 3, 2009, for a short-term ending June 2012. November 3, 2009, Semi-Final Official Mayoral Election Results:

Re. Idiot Voters

Voters are Idiots

You're Fired! (Rivercity)

Activist Judge

97/97 precincts 1:05 a.m. report unoffical: Loveridge; Allavie; Beaty (No yet counted certified WRITE-IN ballots)

NOTE: The count numbers below reflects the count of of VOTES coming in from the 97 precincts for CANDIDATES THAT WERE LISTED ON THE BALLOT ONLY. Votes for Certified WRITE-IN candidates had not been counted as of Wed, Nov 4 at 12:30 p..m

Church and State (Redlands)

KEN STANSBURY for MAYOR (write-in @ your polling place)

ART GAGE, for Mayor in Riverside (The right one)

RE:VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT LOVERIDGE (IE)

VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT LOVERIDGE! (WRITE IN TROY KENT FOR RIVERSIDE'S MAYOR)

WRITE IN TROY KENT FOR RIVERSIDE'S MAYOR...TODAY! (Troy Kent For Mayor!)

Looking Back to 2004 and a PE article about "Five Points" in La Sierra (Over 5 years later Five Point still sits)

A Saturday, March 6, 2004, Press-Enterprise article by Doug Haberman titled "Five Point's one goal requires a vision; Riverside: Some contend that "Orange County"goals for the rundown area aren't realisting"

Why trust Brad's judgement on the Riv Main Library? (STOP THE LIBRARY PROCESS NOW!)

Looking back at a 10/2008 Lib/Museum post. BAD decisions seem the norm (Give away AG park; Destroy good Lib Bldg)

Oct 14 2:00 pm City Council Agenda item on the Library and Museum

WORKSHOP 2. Report from Board of Library Trustees and Metropolitan Museum Board Chairs in follow-up to Blue Ribbon Task Force (All Wards)

Brad Hudson said Greyhound will leave Riv after Jan 31 (LOOK BACK (Fight for a RIGHT SIZED LIBRARY)

REPOSTED FROM NOV 5, 2008. BRAD WANTED GREYHOUND GONE, NOW IT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL STAY AFTERALL.

GREYHOUND IS OFFICIALLY OUT (We should put Greyhound stay/leave on the ballot so Riverside citizens can have a say on whether we want Greyhound in the City of Riverside or not)

Voice your opinions on on the RIVERSIDE MAIN LIBRARY via email to all below�.
Email Addresses for City Council, Mayor, City Clerk (send it for the RECORD at the next CC meeting)

Bicycling in Riverside, CA &Beyond
AND Riverside needs to pass ordinances to pass the details of the Riverside Bicycle Master Plan, so that new parking garages, business buildings, apartment/condo/townhouses other buildings will have the required parking for bicycles and egress.

JULIAN ROSINE, Volunteer Coordinator
Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), Senior Corps, Serving Western Riverside County

Mr. Rosline will speak about Senior Volunteer Issues/opportunities/programs

The Mayoral election was conducted on November 3, 2009, for a short-term ending June 2012.
November 3, 2009, Semi-Final Official Mayoral Election Results:

WORKSHOP

2. Report from Board of Library Trustees and Metropolitan Museum Board Chairs in follow-up to Blue Ribbon Task Force (All Wards)

Riverside Board of Library
Trustees Preoccupied with Downtown Location,
perhaps to the point of going along with
DEMOLISHING A PERFECTLY GOOD BUILDING.

USER NEWS

When Boulder City Met Riverside http://www.laserfiche.com/news/archives/2008/12/16/when-boulder-city-met-riverside
December 16th, 2008

CANDIDATES WHO WILL BE LISTED ON THE BALLOT

ART GAGE

CANDIDATES WHO ARE RUNNING AS WRITE-IN CANDIDATES

KEN STANSBURY

My recommendation this time around
Vote ART GAGE

Then next time around, if on the ballot
consider Stansbury and/or Kent

Mr. McCulloh will speak about DREAM STREET
a true story about the birth of a suburb,
that Mr. McCulloh documented in photographs and personal stories.

About DREAMS STREET and about Douglas McCulloh:

Local News about Douglas McCulloh

Art Gage

Ron Loveridge

Ken Stansbury

Troy Kent

ART will fight to return DEMOCRACY and the right of citizens to speak at City Council chambers without having to wait an indeterminate time, as much as 3 hours or more to be able for a citizen to express his/her concerns for three minutes.

VOTE for anyone BUT Loveridge