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2012 Hercules

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

2012 Hercules: William Wilkins

Hercules Patch asked some prominent Hercules citizens to predict the future. Read their thoughts and share yours.

As Hercules comes out of a turbulent year, Hercules Patch asked some residents what they expect, hope and fear for 2012. Here's what Hercules Councilman William Wilkins said. Share your own predictions in the comments or see the note at the end of this article if you'd like your thoughts published as a separate article. Where you think Hercules will be by the end of 2012? Where do you hope it will be, and fear Hercules might be? Hercules has been making lemonade out of lemons for the last six months and that will continue well into 2012 and beyond.  The City Council will work to bring resolution to many of the issues that brought the City to the brink of bankruptcy,  but rest assured, we have no intention to go the route of Vallejo.  The …

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Jeffrey Boore

1:43 pm on Monday, February 6, 2012

No problem. We're all struggling to make sense of what it going on.   more ›

Thursday, January 12, 2012

2012 Hercules: Don Kuehne

Hercules Patch asked some prominent Hercules citizens to predict the future. Read their thoughts and share yours.

As Hercules comes out of a turbulent year, Hercules Patch asked some residents what they expect, hope and fear for 2012. Here's what resident and former Hercules City Councilman Don Kuehne said. Share your own predictions in the comments or see the note at the end of this article if you'd like your thoughts published as a separate article. Where you think Hercules will be by the end of 2012 and where do you hope Hercules will be? Where do you fear Hercules might be? Post your reaction in the comments below. If you'd like your 2012 Hercules predictions published as a separate article, please send your answers to the above questions to laila.kearney@patch.com. Include your first and last name and a photo of yourself that clearly shows your …

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G.C.

6:45 am on Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Mr. Kuehne, In the following article, Mr. Boulanger promised to implement a new procedures for the purpose of ensuring a more ethical government. http://hercules.patch.com/articles/city-council-candidate-profile-gerard-boulanger What one key procedural change in your mind would visibly raise the bar for ethical standards of our city government?   more ›

Monday, January 9, 2012

2012 Hercules: Susan Keeffe

Hercules Patch asked some prominent Hercules citizens to predict the future. Read their thoughts and share yours.

As Hercules comes out of a turbulent year, Hercules Patch asked some residents what they expect, hope and fear for 2012. Here's what resident Susan Keefee said. Share your own predictions in the comments or see the note at the end of this article if you'd like your thoughts published as a separate article. Where you think Hercules will be by the end of 2012 and where do you hope Hercules will be? It is both my expectation and my hope for the following thoughts. By the end of 2012 I hope that the housing market in Hercules will have hit bottom and will be starting to level out and perhaps even begin a slow rise.  I hope the Council has found a way to begin phase 1 of the waterfront project, which is all infra-structure, but it sends a …

David F

3:32 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Susan, thanks for articulating all of the issues here. To think, we could have had a BART station on that land. (another previous city council blunder) How well would all of the Hercules businesses have done with that.   more ›

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

2012 Hercules: Dan Romero

Hercules Patch asked some prominent Hercules citizens to predict the future. Read their thoughts and share yours.

As Hercules comes out of a turbulent year, Hercules Patch asked some residents what they expect, hope and fear for 2012. Here's what Hercules Mayor Dan Romero said. Share your own predictions in the comments or see the note at the end of this article if you'd like your thoughts published as a separate article. Where you think Hercules will be by the end of 2012? Hercules will hopefully have a better outlook for what we can do with our assets, which are our properties. I hope to have a deal finished with Sycamore North that will be fair to all residents. We cannot give the property away to any developer. The Bayfront/ITC agreement will be finished and we will have a clearer outlook of state and federal grants to fund the project. Hopefully…

gail

12:14 pm on Thursday, December 29, 2011

Good job Dan and best of luck in 2012. The decision is in from the Ca. Supreme's and in the case of cities that have abused the RDA, I think its a good decision. This could be troublesome for the budget in regard to city employees that part of their wages come from the RDA account, but the waste that has gone on in the past will certainly change.   more ›

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