What Are We Doing?

Commentary archive

2016

December

• Another costly day for Apple Valley
• A year of water bills
• Never satisfied
• Time to pay attention: An open letter to Larry Cusack

November

• No water in Measure W
• More Measure W misdirection
• No on W, Yes on V
• Rebuttal to Art Bishop
• Measures V and W
• Polls and votes
• Another false narrative
• Letter to Art Bishop
• Future sales tax measure (Lee)
• Water bill help

October

• The company he keeps
• Trick or treat time (Lee)
• TOAV can not balance numbers: FACTS (Rice)
• Scapegoat or conspirator?
• Water security
• F.U.D. (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt)
• Local water
• Recent water bills (October 11, 2016)
• The business of water
• An open letter to Bill McDaniel
• Hidden future tax ballot measure (Lee)
• Unprepared: Wet or dry
• Diving into the shallow waters of Measure W
• Water bill surcharges

September

• Town business practices
• Sewer Assessment District 98-1 (Lee)
• Don’t waste your vote (Carloni)
• Spending addiction? (Lee)
• Water surcharges
• Earth to Puckett!
• ‘Award-winning’ budgets
• MIA from the ‘Transparency Report’
• Personal attacks?
• Support Measure V
• Adelanto water rates
• Proposed questions for the Apple Valley Candidate Forum
• The misdirection conspiracy
• Curious claim
• Another CYA testimonial
• Defending Puckett (Carloni)
• Good Old Boys’ Club
• Public Records Request: ‘Standing offers’
• Public Records Request: ‘Records requests’
• Public Records Request: ‘Shills’
• Water won’t wash out red ink (Lee)
• Water system maintenance
• More falsehoods
• Public Records Request: ‘Documents supporting claims of rate reductions’
• To be, or not to be … transparent (Lee)

August

• The all-consuming council
• The future of transparency
• No respect, no local control
• Vague promises
• A tangled web
• Who is a ‘town employee’? (Lee)
• Recent water bills (August 10, 2016)
• Best supporters money can buy
• Serious omission

July

• All things considered
• Conflict of interest (Manning)
• Do the right thing (Manning)
• Hot under the collar (Carloni)
• Vote no on the Town staff’s ballot measure proposal
• Better than what?
• Comparing transparency
• Drought planning
• One more reason to oppose a takeover

June

• Liberty is the best alternative
• The truth shall set you free
• Recent water bills (June 13, 2016)
• Letter: You must be very proud, Barb
• Alternative water suppliers
• Letter: What are you going to do about this?
• Communication breakdown
• Local control will be the death of us
• Is your bias showing?

May

• Turning on fact-checking

April

• Gaffe riot — revisited
• Pretense and hypocrisy

March

• Doubling the cost
• Sassafras
• Weigh your sources
• Corrosive centralization
• Rates vs. costs
• Shooting the lawyers first
• Utility bill assistance

February

• Hook-up payments
• Inflated acquisition costs
• CPUC vs. Flint
• Back on track
• Shill crazy after all these years
• One PRR story: American Express (CC)
• About my public records requests (Lee)
• Why don’t conservatives embrace capitalism?
• Transparency for all
• The cost of misunderstanding
• The cat is out of the bag!
• Divide and conquer
• Oh, Canada!
• Municipal Finance 101 (CC)
• Gaffe riot
• Satire: Town Council to end rent profiteering
• Satire: Town moves to buy Verizon

January

• What ‘they’ won’t tell you, Part 1
• Average water use
• Conflating facts
• Rate increases
• Whole new situation, whole new set of lies
• Whole new situation, same old lies
• So much for all that support
• Political posturing
• Water rate recap
• What ‘they’ won’t tell you, Part 2
• What ‘they’ won’t tell you, Part 3
• Thank you, Apple Valley Ranchos
• What ‘they’ won’t tell you, Part 4