Number nine…number nine…on May 23 the City of Vallejo filed to proceed with Chapter 9 bankruptcy in the Sacramento Division of the United States Bankruptcy Court.
On the same day the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Vallejo’s City Council has been meeting with San Francisco financier Calvin Grigsby, who has been proposing bailout strategies for Vallejo.
THE GREAT GRIGSBY or IF SIX WAS NINE
May 29th, 2008 Dave Tilton · No Comments
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MUNICIPAL BONDS (AND CLEMENS)
May 22nd, 2008 Dave Tilton · No Comments
What would people come to Vallejo to see that would generate huge interest and could generate mountains of money?”
I had the answer in five words: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.
Since neither is currently playing for a Major League team, why not charge admission to a public willing – maybe even craving – to watch baseball’s best hitter of the contemporary era face his pitching counterpart? In addition, charge a fee to people willing to field a team.
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NO MORE WAITING
May 10th, 2008 Dave Tilton · No Comments
Since Vallejo’s pair of February 2008 town hall meetings on the subject of bankruptcy, both chaired by City Council members Stephanie Gomes and Joanne Schively, the City Council has treated its citizens and the viewers of Comcast’s Channel 28 (which broadcasts the City Council meetings) to its own political theater version of “Waiting for Godot.”
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