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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 [...]

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Last week I was talking about some of the obstacles we faced as publishers of Listen & Be Heard Weekly in print, and our eventual decision to publish exclusively on-line. I mentioned also, that during the time we were printing thousands of copies of the newspaper each week, my husband Tony and I opened Listen [...]

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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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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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We are at a crossroads here in Vallejo. While our city council deliberates whether to declare bankruptcy, or not, I can tell you one thing for certain, the state of the arts remains in the hands of the people who create. Whether we are in an official bankrupt state or not, the arts are never [...]

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