Elk Grove News Minute - Taxpayers are being fooled with Elk Grove’s Potemkin Villages
Citizen oversight committees are illusion for voters and taxpayers to give the appearance of transparency.

Citizen oversight committees are illusion for voters and taxpayers to give the appearance of transparency.
Six months in, Elk Grove residents have watched a landmark zoo plan implode, a taxpayer-backed restaurant default, a bargain-priced land sale ignite new legal threats, and their mayor field questions about lobbyist day-jobs, tobacco checks and the tax man.
With the U.S. Senate's adoption of President Donald Trump's comprehensive tax and spending bill, Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) has posted three videos on what she and other Democrats call the "Big Ugly Bill" since yesterday. The topics covered in Matsui's bills
The controversial budget bills exempt nine types of project including “water infrastructure.”
Fireworks, drones, and a fair-style festival will light up Elk Grove Park on Friday, July 4