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• ‘Block of Five’ bankruptcy (Valles)
• ‘Boeing’ Barb doesn’t want any cuts to her compensation package
• ‘Conflict of interest’ (video)
• ‘Costs continue to rise for Missoula’s water utility’ (Rhoades)
• ‘Groundhog Day’ in Apple Valley (Valles)
• ‘Particularly municipalities’
• ‘Pay to Play’ suggested in Burrtec contributions to Town of Apple Valley-sponsored ballot measure in weeks leading up to 50-year lease deal
• ‘Spending untold millions’ (video)
• ‘The Purge’ (Valles)
• $216,000 in 2016 (Valles)
• 7 unanswered questions related to the ‘Flint-Apple Valley Connection’
• 480 Volts exposed at the Golf Course (videos)
• 2015-16 Town budget hiding takeover funding?
• A better way of death
• A better way of life, unless you are disabled
• A great example of Town planning
• A history of infractions
• A long wait for crash victim
• A look at Public Works
• A preview of coming attractions
• A rough ride in the Town of Apple Valley
• A shining moment for Public Works
• A video history of the Town’s only well (video)
• About
• Another empty promise (Carloni)
• Another park, another gate left unlocked (video)
• Another waste of taxpayer money (Valles)
• Apple Valley ‘local control’ at its finest
• Apple Valley Amphitheater municipal code violations (video)
• Apple Valley area water rates
• Apple Valley budget cuts
• Apple Valley bus stop update (video)
• Apple Valley citizens form citizen’s group
• Apple Valley doesn’t want you to read the fine print
• Apple Valley Finance Director Marc Puckett charged with felony hit-and-run
• Apple Valley Finance Director Marc Puckett on personal leave after felony hit-and-run charge filed
• Apple Valley Finance Director Marc Puckett pleads not guilty to felony hit-and-run charge
• Apple Valley Golf Course property inspection (video)
• Apple Valley Golf Course restrooms (video)
• Apple Valley Golf Course safety inspection (video)
• Apple Valley Golf Course sign issues (video)
• Apple Valley is broke (Bell)
• Apple Valley mayor responds to Puckett controversy
• Apple Valley money saving
• Apple Valley road maintenance, take 1
• Apple Valley road maintenance, take 2
• Apple Valley street sweeping fail (video)
• Apple Valley town staff ‘broke lock’ on Liberty Utilities vault
• Apple Valley Town staff reveal they have no contingency plan on takeover spending (video)
• Apple Valley water leaks #96, 97, 98, and 99 (video)
• Apple Valley: Rotten to the core (High Desert Insider)
• Apple Valley’s ‘Old Faithful’ geyser (video)
• Apple Valley’s Animal Shelter ‘Taj Mahal’ (video)
• Apple Valley’s car allowance (Valles)
• Apple Valley’s Measure O (Olive)
• Apple Valley’s treasurer situation (Valles)
• Audio
• Auditors: VVWRA mislead FEMA on project, jeopardizing $33.1M
• AV Pal and the Mud Run (Lee)
• AV sewer increase (Carloni)
• AVCE: Not much of a choice
• Bash and praise (Valles)
• Brave new water world
• BREAKING: Apple Valley Illegally Spending Taxpayer Funds on Political Campaign Materials—and Planning on Spending More!
• Call Apple Valley H2Ours campaign what it is — a hostile government takeover
• Can you hear me now? (Valles)
• Christina Burton addresses the Town Council of Apple Valley (video)
• Citizen’s Patrol at the Horsemens’ Center (video)
• Citizens for Government Accountability
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• Citizens have the right to vote on water debt (Hanson)
• Civic Center pool wasting water and money (video)
• Class action suit filed against Apple Valley
• Commentary
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• Comments to the Town Council
• Congratulations, Ranchos
• Continued illegal dumping at the Horsemens’ Center (video)
• Correcting errors in Marc Puckett’s latest evaluation
• Court report: Eminent domain trial
• Court report: Eminent domain trial hearing update (Carloni)
• Court report: Eminent domain trial revisited
• Court report: Eminent domain trial, July 15 (Carloni)
• Court report: Eminent domain trial, March 2
• Court report: Eminent domain trial, March 11 (Carloni)
• Court report: Everything on hold
• Credit card audit? Yes, please (Rice)
• Crucial for Apple Valley? Fiscal accountability!
• Cut the credit cards (McCarthy)
• DA should take closer look at town’s credit card activities (Valles)
• Dangerous conditions at Horsemen’s Center (video)
• Dangerous conditions at James Woody Park (video)
• Dangerous conditions at Town of Apple Valley Civic Center pool (video)
• Diana Carloni presents letter to the Apple Valley Town Council (video)
• Did Town employees commit a Federal offense? (video)
• Did you know your sewer rates are going up again?
• Documents show Apple Valley finance head left Flint, MI, Finance Dept. in shambles
• Does anyone know where the Town’s pipes are?
• Does the Town of Apple Valley finish what they start?
• DWP owes L.A. customers $67.5 million because of rampant overbilling
• Economist [John Husing]: ‘Risks of a (water system) takeover are extremely high’
• Eminent domain trial: A no-win contest (Carloni)
• Facing a looming deficit, Apple Valley seeks members for budget advisory committee
• Felony fall-out
• Flood-watering the dirt at the Horsemens’ Center
• Friction-free rate increases
• Get your No On Measure F yard sign!
• Good governance requires transparency (Valles)
• Government electrical power: A false choice
• Governments should be run more like businesses (Klein)
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• Guaranteed profit
• Guest commentary: Government takeovers of water systems don’t deliver results — study
• H2Oops! (ad)
• H2Ouch! (ad)
• H2Ours: Everything you need to know about TOAV’s claims
• H2Overload! (ad)
• H2Owe (ad)
• Handicapped in Apple Valley
• Hearing on Town/Liberty decision (Carloni)
• Help us help Apple Valley
• Hidden light on TOAV financials (Rice)
• How easy it is to solve Apple Valley road flooding
• How much is too much? (Valles)
• How to solve 14+ years of dangerous road conditions in two minutes
• How water rates are set in Apple Valley
• Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association slams Apple Valley eminent domain attempt
• I protest the proposed solid waste rate increases
• I-15 crash victim seeks $2M in damages from Apple Valley
• Inessential vs. essential
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• Is the Town using taxpayer funds to campaign?
• Is Town of Apple Valley Showing All Acquisition Related Payments?
• It’s a sign
• It’s not about local control, it’s about balancing the budget (video)
• Jess Ranch lift station follow-up (video)
• Judge makes preliminary ruling against Apple Valley taking over water system
• Junk the junkets (Valles)
• Katie Manning addresses the Town Council of Apple Valley (video)
• Lake Apple Valley (video)
• Lawmakers should demand reform of government accounting standards (Weinberg)
• Leaking well head at the Golf Course (video)
• Leaks and water waste at the Apple Valley Golf Course
• Leaks and water waste at the Apple Valley Golf Course are out of control
• Leane Lee addresses the Town Council of Apple Valley (video)
• Letter to the San Bernardino County Auditor-Controller re: The Town of Apple Valley’s Administration Budget submission for 2021-22 (Rice)
• Letter: A critical look at critical needs
• Letter: Apple Valley government
• Letter: Fingers in cookie jars
• Letter: Frivolous EIR (Carloni)
• Letter: Good news, bad news (Schepis)
• Letter: I can’t believe this is happening (Schepis)
• Letter: Oversimplified? (Bell)
• Letter: The devil’s in the details (Schepis)
• Letters to the Editor: Water rates
• Liberty argues Apple Valley not ready to run utility
• Liberty decision: Thoughts and impressions (Carloni)
• Liberty decision: Update (Carloni)
• Liberty freezes rate base
• Liberty questions AV’s unauthorized water use
• Liberty sees Claremont’s eminent-domain loss as sign of things to come in Apple Valley
• Liberty Utilities decision (Carloni)
• Lighting maintenance (video)
• Limit government to governing
• Local Control? Town Council considering shifting operations of AVR to City of Victorville
• Long Beach or bust (Valles)
• Maintenance management (video)
• Making more bad decisions (video)
• Marc Puckett got financial awards before financial improprieties discovered
• Mayor Nassif threatens lawsuit challenging results when Measure F loses
• Measure F could be your worst nightmare (Carloni)
• Measure F: Vote No to protect Apple Valley’s future
• Measure V respects Liberty Utilities customers’ rights
• Mendel Park property inspection (video)
• Millions for the bankers
• Misguided management decisions (video)
• Missed the forest
• Money and energy wasted at the Aquatic Center (video)
• More ‘fake news’ (Carloni)
• More dumping at the Horsemens’ Center (video)
• More evidence that small government works better (Mitchell)
• More illegal concrete dumping (video)
• More opaque ‘transparency’ (Rice)
• More transparency needed (Valles)
• More water leaks at Civic Center Park (video)
• Most Corrupt Politician winners
• Never-ending water waste at the Town of Apple Valley
• News
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• Newsletter fact-check (video)
• No on Measure O
• No wonder he made the big bucks
• Norm Schmidt Park property inspection (video)
• Not A.D.A. compliant
• Not much of a choice (Carloni)
• Not practicing what they preach (video)
• Obamacare vs. H2Ours: Three lies we’ve heard before
• Opinion, Fact, Fiction, or Comic Strip? (Lee)
• Our investigation into the many flaws of the ‘Thornberg report’
• Outstanding services for Apple Valley citizens (video)
• Overpaid city employees
• Paying the penalty
• Please attend ‘Avoiding the Claremont Disaster: A Conversation with James Belna, Claremont Watchdog’
• Proposition 218: No real protection in Apple Valley
• Public works starts and stops
• Puckett’s dismissal just what the town needed (Valles)
• Ranchos radio ad #1 (audio)
• Ranchos Radio Ad #2 (audio)
• Remedial sales tax course
• REPORT: Documents link top Apple Valley official to #FlintWaterCrisis
• Request for online access to final arguments (Carloni)
• Residents may decide water war
• Residents’ initiative qualifies for ballot
• Running toilet at the Town of Apple Valley (video)
• Safer and safer
• Safety inspection of Brewster Park (video)
• Safety inspection of Corwin Park (video)
• Safety inspection of James Woody Park (videos)
• Safety inspection of Lions Park (video)
• Sales tax increase (Pettit)
• Save $500 every year by voting no on Measure F
• Say NO to government electricity
• Say no to Measure F
• Scorched earth
• Seeing red in a sea of green (Valles)
• Sending our money to foreign countries (video)
• Sign the petition to allow cargo shipping containers 8×40 feet or smaller on one-acre or larger lots
• Situation politics (Bell)
• Sowing the seeds of discord
• Spurs, Lipstick, and Opinions: A continued look into Town credit transactions (Valles)
• State fines Apple Valley firefighters union $13,000 for violating state election law
• Sticker Shock: Yes on Measure F campaign forced to fix sign violation following FPPC complaint
• Stop the water tax
• Storm drain preparedness (video)
• Street sweeper dump site clean-up fails (video)
• Tamara Alaniz
• Tax increase: Just say no to O
• Tea Parties and Obama Phones (Valles)
• Teaser trailer (video)
• That can’t be the full story
• The Apple Valley Town Council just trolled voters last night
• The bus stops here (video)
• The court finds for Liberty Apple Valley
• The economic consequences of the Town of Apple Valley’s attempt to condemn Liberty Utilities Apple Valley
• The latest Office of Office of Inspector General (OIG) Report
• The ongoing destruction of the Horsemens’ Center (video)
• The pot calling the kettle black
• The Town of Apple Valley CANNOT & WILL NOT lower your water rates
• The Town of Apple Valley goes full xenophobe — and fails
• They never fix anything
• Tin cup men (Valles)
• To the voters of Apple Valley (Inger)
• To the voters of Apple Valley (Inger)
• TOAV conservation is below par at the golf course
• TOAV declares war on AVRWC
• TOAV Measure ‘Owe’ debt (Rice)
• Town Council directs staff to make preparations for acquisition
• Town Hall position not a factor in Puckett’s custody status, attorney says
• Town of Apple Valley ‘Going Green’ (video)
• Town of Apple Valley accounting update (Lee)
• Town of Apple Valley Amphitheater revisited (video)
• Town of Apple Valley bus stop (video)
• Town of Apple Valley clean-up fail (video)
• Town of Apple Valley Code Enforcement (video)
• Town of Apple Valley communication breakdown (video)
• Town of Apple Valley curbing issues (video)
• Town of Apple Valley goon squad (video)
• Town of Apple Valley illegal dumping update (video)
• Town of Apple Valley lift station inspection (video)
• Town of Apple Valley likely to settle in trash rate lawsuit
• Town of Apple Valley maintenance (video)
• Town of Apple Valley Measure W (video)
• Town of Apple Valley not environmentally sensitive (video)
• Town of Apple Valley Notice of Public Hearing Regarding Proposed Increase to Solid Waste Rates
• Town of Apple Valley paid former Flint finance director for water study
• Town of Apple Valley services fail (video)
• Town of Apple Valley spent $54,560 of taxpayer funds pursuing ballot measure
• Town of Apple Valley storm drain issues
• Town of Apple Valley vs. light poles
• Town of Apple Valley walk of water waste (video)
• Town of Apple Valley water conservation example (video)
• Town of Apple Valley water leak (video)
• Town of Apple Valley water runoff (video)
• Town of Apple Valley weed patrol (video)
• Town of Apple Valley weed patrol 2 (video)
• Town of Apple Valley: Burning debris (video)
• Town of Apple Valley: Monitoring ‘local control’ (video)
• Town of Apple Valley: Wasting even more water (video)
• Town of Apple Valley: Water leaks and water lies (video)
• Town of Apple Valley’s ‘local control’ (video)
• Town of Apple Valley’s drip system fail (video)
• Town of Apple Valley’s man-made flooding (video)
• Town of Apple Valley’s website calls economist John Husing one of ‘the region’s leading industry experts’
• Town raises user/permit fees (Carloni)
• Town to livestream water trial closing arguments
• Transparency is relevant in water eminent domain case (Carloni)
• Two years of Apple Valley budget cuts
• Update on Neighbors United
• Update on the trial schedule (Carloni)
• Update: Town likely using PR firm for political campaign use since 2016
• Valley Voices: Is Apple Valley the next Greece?
• Valley Voices: No on Measure O
• Vegetation issues (video)
• Victorville’s Water District made unlawful decisions according to state audit
• Victory confirmed!
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• Vote for change (Carloni)
• Vote No O!! (Reyes)
• Vote no on Measure F
• Vote No on Measure F
• Wasting our water (video)
• Wasting your tax dollars (video)
• Water suppliers scrambling to meet state targets
• We know what’s best for you
• We need your support at Tuesday’s Town Council meeting!
• Welcome to Apple Valley: Watch your step (video)
• Welcome to The Village
• Well, well, well (video)
• What does the Town Council do?
• What if Apple Valley owned the municipal water system (video)
• What the Town (and Yes On F) leave out of the news of Liberty’s 2016 Financial Report
• What the Town of Apple Valley spends on lawyers
• When will the Town of Apple Valley finally implement ‘local control’? (video)
• Whither Apple Valley?
• Who are ‘Neighbors United’?
• Who watches theses videos? The Town of Apple Valley! (video)
• Who’s in charge of what in Apple Valley?
• Who’s sorry now?
• Why does Frank Robinson misrepresent the truth? (video)
• Why this, and not that? (video)
• Will Apple Valley voters fall for Measure F’s Big Lie?
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