Our Mayor

Jerome Stocks just can't stop himself.  I guess it is no surprise that this politician who seems to struggle with self control and mon...

Art by Sarah Saldana Art by Ricardo Levins Morales  

Update below Someone even wrote a song . Update - Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 Last night some council regulars created a satire ...

Since the filming of the Mayor and ex-Fire Chief getting caught doing wrong, the community is disgusted and outraged. Some protests are mi...

We have aleady posted the fact that Stocks is putting up campaign signs early. But now, a Coast News videographer filmed Mayor Jerome ...

Trust that the general voting public knows how they'd like to be treated at city council. Last council meeting's public meeti...

True Facts™ (clarifications at end) After 11 years of public service, Councilwoman Maggie Houlihan died on September 16, 2011 and her col...

The August 22 meeting of the City Council was filled with the usual fact bending, staged exchanges, history revisionism, false assumptions...

The most magical mythical thing for Our Mayor Stocks is that he is a legend in his own mind.  The last council meeting was a robust displa...

What a remarkable sensation to experience the calm of civility at last night's city council meeting.  Were Mark Muir and Kristin Gaspa...

  "Where is the outcry for this issue?" She answers simply, "This is an issue because you can't get along." ...

They are nothing if not relentless in their goal to completely silence Councilwoman Barth and the large number of voters who she represe...

This week's second major myth is that this council majority primary interest is to conduct the people's business.  This is a cont...

The most glaring myth lately (first of several) involves the Gaspar Gag Order passed at the last city council meeting by the majority. In ...

It's the ugliness of bullies taunting because they can, not because they gain anything of value from it except admiration from other b...

Update: Video Clip added 5/18/12, 11 am Ideally, well composed commentaries and letters like this one will be seen in many different venu...

This time Mayor Stocks as Puppet Master just didn't work out for him at the meeting last night.  It started with his usual rudeness wi...

Our mayor had one whole council meeting with nothing on the agenda (due to a last minute cancellation of one minor element) except one it...

NCT staff-assigned Stocks apologist, stenographer Barbara Henry wrote another fact free bit of revisionist history.  The article   itsel...

No matter what the mayor keeps repeating, what the deputy mayor echos or what the city manager says in this clip; nobody really believes thi...