SYSTEM: Please welcome Jarhead who just joined the chat.

SYSTEM: Please welcome Carl who just joined the chat.

Carl: Good morning

SYSTEM: Please welcome Angel who just joined the chat.

Angel: Good Morning!

Angel: I can't tell you how many times and how many people have sung to me that song or Earth Angel

Angel: How lucky am I that people sing to me, thank you Carl!

Angel: So in 1860 on this date the civil war began....just sayin

Angel: Good Morning Jarhead!

SYSTEM: Please welcome ProducerBadBob who just joined the chat.

Angel: Good Morning BadBob!

Angel: Love it!

Carl:

Angel: Crazy

Angel: I just read an article from a Bay Area Chief of Police, they now have the prop 47 statistics and how much crime has risen, and to take away our guns, I think not

Jarhead: Good Morning all....making some trades ....was listening but not focused on the chat room

Angel: I go back and forth while listening to Carl

Angel: I was hoping she and Bill were in the Panama paers

Angel: papers

SYSTEM: Please welcome Dave who just joined the chat.

Dave: Rapoza was even more rude than usual yesterday. No wonder the tea party is such an ineffective joke. He is on KCNRapoza too much and does more harm to his cause than good.

Angel: Good morning Dave, what are the business moving to statistics in Reno this morning

ProducerBadBob: Differing viewpoints can be aired by simply dialing the studio when we are taking calls.......just.....sayin....

Angel: I like that name!

Dave: Angel, read rgj.com. It is a Gannett newspaper and shows what will happen to the R-S.

Angel: I will look at it, housing is going crazy there

Dave: AZcentral.com is the Gannett newspaper in Phoenix. Metro Phoenix added the most people according to the U.S. census, while metro Redding lost population last year. And that's in spite of San Francisco boycotting AZ.

Angel: I have friends leaving Ca every year, the politics!

Jarhead: no one cares what san fran says or does with one exception being the sanctuary city decision

Angel: We will not support SF, will not go or spend one nickle there

Dave: Reno Sparks also had impressive population growth according to the U.S. census. All those good paying jobs are good for real estate.

Angel: They can have their sanctuary and their crime

Angel: People are still close to Ca so Reno is a good option

Jarhead: the fact that the redding decreased in population and expected tax revenues but continues to give raises to employees even when they know it exacerbates the unfunded pension issue and continues to demand a larger percentage of the general budget each year...unsustainable but they don't seem to care

Jarhead: sparks area is growing fast but somehow they seem to be keeping up with the pace

Angel: I think they care, they just have to manage it

Dave: Stanford spawned Palo Alto Research Center and Silicon Valley. It doesn't have to stay there. There are several other tech centers which can grow.

Angel: I can't believe have fast Sparks has grown, I remember when I was a kid thinking the Nugget was so far away

ProducerBadBob: I know they have many of the same problems economically...but I have motivations to relocate to Coos Bay. Access to a great place to go boating, crabbing, fishing and a hella lot cooler in the summers.

ProducerBadBob: CB's downtown is a vision of what Redding's could have been.

Angel: I love that area Bad Bob but when you have kids, it's a long drive

ProducerBadBob: true...

Jarhead: Angel, managing it would mean placing a voluntary moratorium on raises until the answer is found.. but the majority think the answer is the sales tax increase they will be asking for in November...1% for at least 6 years with their option to renew about 120 million dollars...they are already spendin

Dave: Detroit was the silicon valley of the 1940s when I was born in Henry Ford hospital. Detroit's population was 2 million, 750,000 today. There is no reason Silicon valley has to stay that close to Stanrford.

Dave: The Hoover Institute has an informative study on unfunded pensions. Democrats assume congress will bail out the states.

Angel: I understand Jarhead, I guess my point is that there are so many cost saving decisions that are made over spending, for example, not approving the jail, County wages are pretty low.

Angel: You are right Dave, we live in a portable country with the interenet

Dave: "Affordability concerns as Reno-Sparks home values rise in March" from the RGJ.com

Angel: I think the public is always there to scrutinize each decision

Jarhead: Jail issue is still a sensitive area for many as passing on the additional expansion of beds makes no sense especially if you are going to turnaround and spend the money that you said we don't have...

Angel: You are so correct, penny wise and pound foolish

Jarhead: absolutely... I hate it when those sayings our moms and dads said come back to haunt us...lol

Angel: I don't understand why their mindset is not on efficiency

Jarhead: spending other peoples money has a way of bringing out an individuals fiscal weaknesses

Angel: I know, I often think about it making household decisions.

Dave: The California paradox: California has the highest rate of poverty according to the U.S. census when cost of living is taken into account. California has great wealth due to the technology companies. But the tech companies are moving away right before our eyes..

Angel: i was on the other side and I can tell you, at least in my city, dollars were not easy to get and if you could not show how a piece of equipment would benefit and provide cost savings you didn't get it.

Dave: Don't hold you breath waiting for Ebay or Apple to move their new data centers from Reno back to California. Don't expect the Mayo Clinic to close their new hospital near Bell and Tatum in Phoenix to move to the north state.

Jarhead: public servants used to be paid less then private sector but traded the higher wages for job security and a retirement package... but now days the public sector with the help of the unions have created an environment where the wage and especially pension have outpaced the private sector

Angel: One such example was a piece of equipment to enhance 911, revolutionary at the time. It wasn't going to increase the speed in which we answered the phone or dispatched the call for service but it was going to add a layer of technology that we didn't have, giving us more information. I didn't get i

Angel: I can say with out a doubt in this area, a deputy is way under paid!

Jarhead: somehow common sense is being left out of the decision making process, replaced with union input and future political aspiration considerations

Angel: I think the county has held the wages in check

Jarhead: I agree Angel... and it hurts us...as we train and season them just to lose them to RPD or other local areas that pay better

Dave: It would be great if the county had e911 service which allows you to register your address with your cell phone. Many people could save a couple hundred bucks by giving up the ATT landline.

Angel: True, spring boeard to other agencies, sad

Angel: board

Jarhead: yep

Angel: Lot's of people don't have landlines

Jarhead: county needs contracts that bind and allow the county to negotiate before they take off for greener pastures

Angel: You are right about that, but they don't think like private companies

Dave: No landline means no 911. It could be fatal if you have a stroke and can't give your address.

Angel: In this area not having a landline could be a problem because of cell service.

Jarhead: I was a manager with American Express and had great results but a very high attrition rate... the big shots at A.E. explained to me what that was costing me and the company in recruiting, training etc... I eventually saw the light and made the adjustment... the county should also but for different r

Angel: I like having a landline personally, I am more apt to answer my home phone than my cell lol

Jarhead: reasons

ProducerBadBob: I have DSL so I have to have a landline, but there is something about good old twisted pair versus cell towers.

Dave: America has massive debt, especially when the hidden debt of unfunded pension liability is considered. Debt was the root cause of the great depression and why the housing bubble burst.

Angel: They do not have a mindset of efficiency I can tell you that from my experiences

Angel: I agree Bad Bob, even more comfortable to talk on the phone when your laughing with your kids

ProducerBadBob: My cell coverage is dodgy at best where I am, people more often than not sound like they are in a fishtank.

Jarhead: it was once the way of pleasing people/voters...was to spend... but that is shifting to efficiency...just not fast enough to avoid the pain and please though of us paying attention...lol

Angel: or pissed, the message is clear on a landline and they can't hang up!

Jarhead: lol

Angel: True Jarhead, lot's of cities in the 90's were focused on efficiency, now it is just surviving. reactive instead of proactive

Angel: I have to run, work getting in the way! Have a great day!

SYSTEM: Please welcome Sungold who just joined the chat.

Sungold: Good Morning

Sungold: I prefer to have a landline because 911 goes directly to SHASCOM. Cell phones go to the nearest CHP which then has to dispatch. Precious minutes are lost. I don't have my cell phone with me all the time anyway We have enough phones around here that we can answer or use them at any time. And we

Sungold: know where they are. Not always so with the cells.

Sungold: All the predictions for rain, and the only thing we have seen on this side of town is overcast.

Jarhead: Democracy Spring movement.... did you guys see this peaceful event in Washington asking for the removal of big money from politics had over 400 arrests but ferguson and AZ and other events had but a few... how does that work ?

ProducerBadBob: Looking at the radar, where are you, Sunny?

ProducerBadBob: there's a band of showers moving west-east

ProducerBadBob: The leading edge is just now hitting metro redding

Sungold: We are off of Rancho Road on Saratoga about three blocks east of Alta Mesa

Sungold: There are men who find it comical to say things about women and even terrorize them

ProducerBadBob: You should be seeing rain very shortly

SYSTEM: Please welcome Shastaminded who just joined the chat.

Shastaminded: Is this show live today? I thought Jean King was on the program a short time ago.

ProducerBadBob: yes and yes

ProducerBadBob: We are as live as we ever are

ProducerBadBob: testing the chat room

ProducerBadBob: Carl's computer's battery flatlined so ... I'm watching the chat

Sungold: I swear we live in a banana belt Bob, as we can have no rain while the rest of the city is being soaked. One block down the street there is a home with all types of citrus trees they never have to cover. Yet, we have to cover ours. Really weird over here, even with wind

ProducerBadBob: Just that little rise from CCB up to Rancho has some orographic effect

Sungold: I will look up orographic

ProducerBadBob: it's how the landscape affects rainfall

ProducerBadBob: the pressure gradient ... the reason that between shingletown and eskimo hill can be a blizzard and old station can be clear.

Sungold: Got it, yep, we are up on a plateau. One of the reasons we bought up here. I wanted to be out of the flood plain

ProducerBadBob: The river also has a huge effect on rainfall due to convection.

Sungold: Rain must have moved north east of us , no signs of anything at all.

ProducerBadBob: Interesting a couple of years ago, a thunderstorm left a swath of half-inch hail that turned the freeway into a horrible mess. But almost no place else touched

Sungold: I remember that.