Attorney & Suspect Ruelas Says Informants Were Paid

Fast track him to the death row please.

“I’m not here because of a palm print. I’m here because of what the confidential informants are saying about me,” he said. “They questioned me about the palm print in 2005. They didn’t arrest me.

“There’s other palm prints on there, too.”

Of the confidential witnesses?

“Matter of fact, yeah.”

Substainable Pacific Grove Has A Good Con Going, Eh?

Social Justice

So you have an alleged non profit taking advantage of taxpayer supported facilities to advertise alleged ‘green’ businesses that wish to make a profit off of taxpayer subsidized schemes to put solar panels in foggy Pacific Grove. What a racket!

Sustainable Pacific Grove will present a free program on home energy rebates and financing from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdayat the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History.

Speakers will be Jay Tulley of local green building contractor Sage Building Solutions and Jennifer Rupnow of Energy Upgrade California.

Sustainable Pacific Grove Has A Good Con Going, Eh?

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No Raises For City Workers, Budget In The Black

No fees for non-profits? Make them pay too, just because it’s a non-profit does not mean they are strapped for cash.

No tax increases are contemplated and city employees will receive no raises, he said. The economy has remained sluggish and is expected to stay that way, Becklenberg said, with minimal increases in city sales, hotel room and property tax revenues.

Some exceptions to the city fee increases to recover all costs will be made for nonprofit organizations renting city facilities for events, Becklenberg said.

No Raises For City Workers, Budget In The Black

Hitchhiker On 68 Attacked

Was reported at 3 am.68 1985

Victim was hitchhiking on Highway 68, when four males stopped in a vehicle and offered to give him a ride. The males then attacked the victim and tried to take a bag from him that he was carrying. Victim fought back, knocking one of the suspects out. At which time he was hit in the head with a baseball bat knocking him unconscious.

Hitchhiker On 68 Attacked

What Are We, A Bunch Of Prius Driving Closet Beef Lovers?

Idea from Margaret E. Leighton of Seaside, that town with the car lots that pretend to be in Monterey..

I’m sorry, but I don’t care if they do make the fries from a whole potato while I look on in awe — I can’t get bacon!

And while I appreciate that all of you closet burger-eaters from P.G. flock in the evenings to Seaside to get the fast food unavailable to you in your hometown, go home in your Prius, and badger your city council for an In-N-Out burger.

This was suggested here on September 28, 2009
Pacific Grove In and Out
What Are We, A Bunch Of Prius Driving Closet Beef Lovers?

Who Wants More Motels On P.G.’s Shoreline?

Our elected tax grubbers, and Moe.

American Tin Cannery Outlets – Future Motel?
ATC

No, please don’t build more motels on the beaches. Are more rooms really what we need? The crusty motels need to provide the customers their money’s worth. Tear down some of those Brokaw Halls they call lodges and build something worth coming to.

ATC should be torn down and made into a condo. Corral all them part time residents into their own vacation home paradise.

And tell Moe he can make more money selling parking spots to the ‘good ol boys club’ at his new gaudy tourist information center. I see way more cars in that lot than people in the building. What’s going on there?

Visions of tax revenues from new hotel rooms are dancing in the heads of city officials. They estimate about 80 hotel rooms could be added at existing properties, which would bring in up to $300,000 a year more to city coffers. Even more bed tax money would be generated by new hotels near Lovers Point and the Monterey Bay Aquarium where the American Tin Cannery sits.

Representatives from the business community told the council the city should pick up the tab. Moe Ammar, leader of the local Chamber of Commerce, for example, said that since the city would gain thousands of dollars in increased bed tax from new guest rooms, the city should pay.

But residents who spoke to the council said the businesses should pay.

The council split the difference, voting 6-0 that the city would put up half the money if the hospitality industry put up the other half. The city is waiting for a response..

Who Wants More Motels On P.G.’s Shoreline?

Acting Stupid Will Not Save Angel Ruelas

Being stupid may reduce his lifespan, though

A judge has ruled that a former Soledad man charged with the 1997 slaying of Monterey High School student Kristopher Olinger is competent to stand trial.

Judge Mark Hood ordered a mental evaluation for Angel Ruelas on May 4 after a bizarre verbal standoff over Ruelas’ efforts to represent himself in trial as a “sovereign citizen.”

Ruelas, who is in Salinas Valley State Prison on an unrelated carjacking conviction, somehow latched onto the theories and has had a series of nonsensical exchanges with Hood in recent months.

Acting Stupid Will Not Save Angel Ruelas

There Goes The Budget Surplus – Rebuild Broken Brokaw Hall?

Tear it down – not worth the money to preserve, especially if the habitat is meant to be a home for butterflies.

Brokaw Hall

In an attempt to atone for the sins of the past, the Pacific Grove City Council signaled Wednesday that historic Brokaw Hall might escape demolition.

The dilapidated city-owned building at 263 Grove Acre Ave. was scheduled to be torn down by June 6 after the city’s chief building official, John Kuehl, declared it a health and safety hazard.

The council Wednesday was expected to authorize paying $36,000 for its destruction and to debate about what elements of the one-story wooden building, which was built in 1914 and is former home of the Del Monte Military Academy, would be worth salvaging.

There Goes The Budget Surplus – Rebuild Broken Brokaw Hall?

Pacific Grove Police Officers Association Charges Investigated

PG Cops On Break

A city ordinance approved in August — the Sustainable Retirement Benefit Reform Initiative — limits city contributions to police pensions.

The council took action after voters collected enough signatures to force the measure to curb pension benefits onto the November ballot.

The council did put a measure on the ballot that changed the city charter to allow the council or citizens to regulate employee benefits. The police union contends that too violated the city’s obligation to meet and confer with the association.

The complaint vindicates “our efforts to see that the city keeps its promises to its hardworking public safety employees,” said association president Sylvia Newton in a prepared statement.

Pacific Grove Police Officers Association Charges Investigated