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Old 11-13-2015, 12:58 PM
 
Location: Living rent free in your head
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I work in a Hospital and none of our Nurses are Union... and the pension was suspended in 2007 temporarily and so far has not returned...
wow..that's really surprising, I thought all the major Bay Area Hospitals were union; I think Kaiser, Sutter and Highland are. What happened did Prime end up buying hospitals in Oakland? I hope not because they destroyed the best healthcare system in Reno (St. Mary's) a year after the buy out they put in a new computer system and didn't do a back up of the old data and lost about 10% of patient records (including mine)
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Old 11-13-2015, 01:09 PM
 
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wow..that's really surprising, I thought all the major Bay Area Hospitals were union; I think Kaiser, Sutter and Highland are. What happened did Prime end up buying hospitals in Oakland? I hope not because they destroyed the best healthcare system in Reno (St. Mary's) a year after the buy out they put in a new computer system and didn't do a back up of the old data and lost about 10% of patient records (including mine)

You are right... all the majors are and Prime was in negotiations to buy us... we were also part of Columbia HCA if anyone goes back that far...

Powers that be have been in talks with Sutter for a couple of years...

Several of our nurses use to work for Sutter and didn't like it... today, we lose Nurses to Kaiser...
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Old 11-13-2015, 01:20 PM
 
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You are right... all the majors are and Prime was in negotiations to buy us... we were also part of Columbia HCA if anyone goes back that far...Powers that be have been in talks with Sutter for a couple of years... Several of our nurses use to work for Sutter and didn't like it... today, we lose Nurses to Kaiser...
Yep, Kaiser is the place to work for nurses, my son's ex is a Nurse Practitioner at Kaiser and it shocked me when I found out what she was making, as Donald Trump would say "it's huuuuge"
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Old 11-13-2015, 02:52 PM
 
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It is significant plus the benefits are tops too...
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Old 11-14-2015, 10:46 AM
 
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Some states have property tax freeze for senior citizens. Disappointingly, CA is not one of them.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/fiscal-...t-freezes.aspx
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Old 11-14-2015, 10:49 AM
 
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At one time California seniors could suspend property tax payments...

If the senior elected to do this... the taxes would just accrue and when the home was sold all the back taxes would then be collected by the State...

This program was also discontinued... because property taxes continued to accrue and homes values didn't...
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Old 11-14-2015, 06:25 PM
 
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At one time California seniors could suspend property tax payments...

If the senior elected to do this... the taxes would just accrue and when the home was sold all the back taxes would then be collected by the State...

This program was also discontinued... because property taxes continued to accrue and homes values didn't...
A fiend of mine in TN is a Vet and in TN a Vet pays no property tax. Why can't CA manage this with more people and more business? TN also has no State Income tax and a sales tax not much above CA. Free 2 year college for residents, better roads and the list goes on. How can TN do this and CA can't?
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Old 11-14-2015, 07:39 PM
 
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California is all about revenue... even allowing for modest Property Tax gains is not enough.

Many other states treat seniors/retired military better than California...

Every couple of months a co-worker retires and then moves out of State.
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Old 11-16-2015, 09:11 AM
 
Location: Chandler, AZ
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That's been happening for decades, and zoning restrictions and decades of no-growth policies are a key reason for our sky high housing prices.

The permitting process to build something as mundane as a Carls Jr restaurant takes over 9 months in CA as opposed to six weeks in Texas according to their CEO,

Government unions are insatiable which goes a long way towards explaining California's current fiscal woes.
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Old 11-16-2015, 12:37 PM
 
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My boss was building a home in the Oakland Hills on a lot he had owned for sometime and in compliance with zoning.

It took several years of back and forth with design review before breaking ground...

I attended some of the review sessions and it was quite intense.

Design Review is an open book to changes and if the city person leaves... another could easily request other or additional changes...

There was a project I had been following... 42 single family homes on 60 acres... all zoned for single family and with sewer already on site... for years the project languished through environmental impact phase... in the end, no homes were built and the city now owns the property as open space so it is no longer on the tax roll...

Others have tried to build in Tahoe for many years and still no build permit...
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