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Brookdale Lodge offers help
Central Coast Democratic Congressman Jimmy Panetta is standing with residents to save postal services in Brookdale.
County Supervisor Monica Martinez, from the Santa Cruz Mountains, is echoing that call. Not only should services get moved into the historic Brookdale Lodge, she said, the Postal Service needs to consider home delivery, which is not currently offered there.
“ The geographic region here isn't any different than Ben Lomond or Boulder Creek," Martinez said, "so why do these residents not have access to home delivery or a post office? It doesn't make any sense and I think that they deserve better.”
No final decision has been made and the public has until Sunday to share comments. Affected customers can mail any questions or comments to:
Carla Jackson
Manager, Customer Relations
USPS
P.O. Box 889027
San Francisco, CA 94188
California tax measures
Voters are considering 14 statewide ballot measures this fall. Five of them could change the way Californians are taxed.
Californians haven’t voted on this many tax measures in more than 30 years.
Three out of the five measures — propositions 40, 41 and 42 — are centered on whether or not to tax billionaires.
If Proposition 40 passes, it would make California the first state in the nation to introduce a tax on wealth. The measure would put a one-time 5% tax on the stocks, bonds and other assets of the state’s billionaires.
Propositions 41 and 42 would ban the wealth tax.
Beyond the wealth tax, there’s Proposition 3. That would make permanent a current higher income tax rate for higher-earners to fund education.
Finally, there’s Proposition 43, which would make it harder for locals to pass certain new tax measures.
That’s it. Simple? Not at all. And that’s a problem for supporters of all of these measures.
Pollsters say that when voters are confused, they tend to vote “no.”
Which might explain why tax measures, which are always a little confusing, don’t tend to do well. Since the year 2000, California voters have rejected them two-thirds of the time.
That story from our partners at CalMatters.