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By Michael Fitzgerald

Record Columnist

July 12, 2013 12:00 AM

Six months into his term, it has become painfully clear that Mayor Anthony Silva is unfit for office. The question is what to do about it.

And no, I am not proposing his recall. Yet, I am putting recall on the table, though with a couple other options. And frankly, I am warming to the idea.

Silva's kooky performance at Tuesday's council meeting demonstrates why he is temperamentally and politically unfit to serve as mayor.

Having suffered the complete collapse of his one-issue agenda, the deeply flawed Safe Streets initiative, Tuesday's vote to put a different, and better, tax plan on the ballot offered the politically isolated mayor a golden opportunity.

He had the chance to reconcile with the council and city manager he arrogantly tried to marginalize. A chance to become a part of the team that has worked so well to restore Stockton.

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2 injured in Stockton drive-by shooting

STOCKTON MAYOR STATES HER FAILURE

Mayor Of Bankrupt California City Explains Where She Failed

Charles' Murray's Losing Ground was that most incentives in life are negative, in that if you don't do X you will starve or freeze or whatever. Thus, you learn to be thrifty, nice, and hard working to simply get by.
The most common complaint by businesses as to why they fail is that their banker stopped lending or seized their collateral; if they just had more time things would have turned around.


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AWOLnation - Kill your Heroes

Wow a very motivating song, and No it doesn't mean to kill anybody, more or less, be your own Hero! I reccomend picking up their two latest albums, and enjoy the sound wave! Click Here!

News10: What concerns Stockton residents?

"GET IN-VOLVED!"

This is the Solution for Stockton residents, simply becoming involved will spread around the world like an infection of a positive result for everyone. This is Stockton's moment of glory, and it seems as if it is I that has to rise up for the rest to follow. Mistakes are the only lessons in life, don't be afraid to make mistakes, otherwise you'll never learn.

"RISE-UP! LET'S LEND A HAND TO ALL NEIGHBORS IN NEED!"



"Elevate the game, instead of placing the blame, It's like life'll neva' change, its always staying the same."

Stockton promotes official to CFO

By Scott Smith
Record Staff Writer
September 14, 2012 12:00 AM
STOCKTON - City officials announced Thursday that they hired a new chief financial officer from within the ranks, making her the third person to fill that position within a year.

Vanessa Burke, Stockton's assistant director of the Administrative Services Department, will step into her new role overseeing the city's finances effective Sunday.

Burke is a certified public accountant with more than 20 years of experience in the public and private sectors, began working for Stockton on Dec. 1, 2011. Her annual salary as CFO will be $145,704.

Burke served as a key figure in preparing Stockton for its Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing, which was made at the end of June.

"The past eight months have been among the most rewarding of my professional career," Burke said in a news release. "Getting the city's fiscal house in order will help the city to achieve the sustainability necessary for the future and for its citizens."

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