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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Aaron Corn Asks For Reduced Sentence

Think he’s unlearned a lifetime of bad habits in 3 months? Nah.

Though Corn asked for probation, Scott sentenced Corn to most of the maximum nine-year term he could have received.

Believing the sentence to be too harsh, however, Frank Dice, Corn’s attorney, was scheduled to present a motion asking Scott to reconsider his sentence.

But Scott said he took the crash and other examples of Corn’s previous behavior, which included a substance-abuse problem, into account when he handed Corn the sentence.

Corn was “described as someone who is always in trouble, someone who always caused troubled,” Scott said in March. “And that is from his friends.”

Arron Corn Asks For Reduced Sentence

Broken Brokaw Hall Saga – Demolition Is Final Answer

Cost to repair, half a million. Cost to demolish, $35,000

“It’s a historic structure,” said Esther Trosow, with the Conservancy. “It’s on the list of historic structures and they let it fall into a state of decay. If any private citizen did that, according to the historic preservation rules, they would have to be in injunctive relief, which means they would have to fix it. And the city has just decided that they don’t need to do that. They’re thumbing their nose at their own laws.”

Brokaw Hall Sign

Cedar Street Times is reporting that the building’s historical plaque has been removed and presumed stolen.

Broken Browkaw Hall Saga – Demolition Is Final Answer

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