Isn't this supposed to be a non-partisan election? Why are you so impressed with the endorsement of the two parties. Both stink.

As for Main Street. Lets see, right now on Pacific Street there are: a very good bakery and coffe shop, four restaurants including a very good italian, a pizza take out and a eat in, our local newspaper office, a laundromat, a muffin bakery, some auto repair and tire businesses, the post office, Kmart, auto sales, beauty saloon, and assorted other businesses. Granted, it is not the best that it could be, but showing the back of one building is not being exactlhy honest. I suspect you probably don't shop or eat there. Probably too busy or its too far. Without cusotmers, businesses won't invest.

Does Angela Torrens and David Nelson favor using taxpayers money to build buildings and give them to business free or do they think the free enterprise system should work and private investors should do the building? Maybe you should tell us that.

I think the new main street is up around Blue Oaks, wherever THAT is. Rocklin's retail industry has moved north, closer to Lincoln. I shop in Roseville now since most major retailers are much closer there. Albertson's on Pacific was the canary in the coal mine, and when it moved out it signaled the demise of any chance for a "downtown". How many years has that building been vacant? Nobody is dumb enough to lease it now. The greed-driven incumbents were too busy annexing land before Roseville or Lincoln could get it, without paying attention to the blight being left behind in the "old" town. Pulling the greedy hogs away from the trough isn't easy. They are poster children for term limits. Vote them OUT!!! They will NEVER leave voluntarily.

George...you ask about Angela or David using taxpayer money. I've heard just the opposite - Angela spoke recently about grant monies available at the state and federal level for redevelopment projects with mixed-use objectives. To my knowledge the current council hasn't even tried this!

Here's the deal: the sad state of affairs in the downtown core is unacceptable. I commend the Placer Herald and the muffin shop for trying - - but the foot traffic there is dismal.

Why can other cities have a downtown center, a place where the community feels connected? What is wrong with the people who are running our city.

Out with the incumbents. And, yes, it is impressive to receive a party's endorsement. These don't grow on trees. Endorsements are EARNED!

If you are from some back woods, incest-infested bayou swamp, you might consider Pacific Street somewhat passable as a "Main St." Pacific Street is a disgrace--the one intersection that could have had some promise is at Rocklin Road, but city officials can't seem to move on anything. Why? NO VISION whatsoever. They concentrate on one thing only: Development one-time fees and kissing the (feet or other body parts) of the tribe. Whatever the developer wants, Rocklin gets.

These incumbents have worn out the welcome mat, have their "been-in-office-too-long" blinders on, have made too back room deals, and must be voted out before Rocklin finds itself in econcomic conditions such as Colfax or Vallejo .

Oh yeah, let's hear it for Capitalism--that's certainly working well, isn't it? The problem is GREED, everywhere, including and especially in Rocklin, with little to no regulation.

Angela has ideas, vision, new ways of opening up possiblities so that Rocklin can climb out of this hole the incumbents have dug us in to. Vote for one candidate only (not three): Vote for Angela Torrens for Rocklin City Council.

Nice response JimCather, bringing incest into the picture. What is wrong with you?

I think he lives in Loomis.

Arthurl: BURN! LUV IT