Few people think about Proposition 172. What is it? Who cares, anyway? You should care, since Proposition 172 provides an ongoing half-cent sales tax that was voter-approved in 1993.
Remember 1999? Silicon Valley ruled the global economy, the Nasdaq was going up about 30 percent a year and tech companies with no earnings saw their stock prices skyrocket, then split, then skyrocket again. People thought it would never end.
A project to construct sidewalks, curb ramps, driveways and retaining walls on Highway 9 between Graham Hill Road and the San Lorenzo Valley schools...