Right on Daily 2026 Spotlight, The City of Corona. A Case Study for a Great Suburb Ruined by Cronyism, Insiders and Weak Leaders.

by | Sep 2, 2025 | 2026 Elections, Corona CA | 2 comments

Pictured: 6th st. in Downtown Corona

Over the years, your intrepid blogger has done exposes on local governments. There are common threads amongst the worst-run local governments. Typically, the leadership is inbred, and the elected board is a rubber stamp group of people that are weaklings that refuse to question staff. Worse, sometimes, they are in on it with the bureaucrats.

The City of Corona should be one of those neat enclaves “out in the desert” of Southern California. It used to be.

Right on Daily is going to take on the City of Corona, over the next months you are going to learn about the gross mismanagement of the city, and the insider game behind the burgeoning disaster that is coming for the City of Corona.

I believe that the City of Corona is heading for a municipal bankruptcy. Even absent this, there is a compelling case for why all five incumbents on the Corona City Council need to be unseated or recalled. Please note that they range from flaming liberal democrat to conservative Republican – but when you have a crew of group-think, I like being one of the club type of people you get what you see in Corona.

There are a couple of Facebook Groups about Corona, some that have thousands of hits, so you know that my thoughts about Corona are not unique.

Let’s outline a broad view of the issues:

In 2017 there was a blow up over the budget, which led to a turnover of the city council in 2018.

Subsequently there was a sales tax measure that was passed – the story about what was done with that money will follow in future blogs

As you can see above, one of the neat things the City of Corona did was reduced a major street from two lanes to one. This is called a “Road Diet” an obsession of left-wing central planners that think spending millions of dollars to eliminate traffic lanes and replace them with planters and parking stalls is a great thing for planning a city. People that have to use 6th st. now report having to wait through 4-6 traffic lights to get through intersections in downtown Corona. $15 Million at least was spent on this disaster.

Crime is worse.

City Debt has spiraled.

City Government has exploded.

They are bulldozing buildings and building new city owned stuff that residents will have to pay to use!

They are building low income housing all over town without regard to the other consequences of such developments. (Rather than attempting to systematically plan its’ locations)

There has not been an audit of the city finances since 2017.

They have hired inexperienced people in to positions of great responsibility.

If you are part of the good ‘ol boys club in the City of Corona and you have laughed at the existing crowd of people that have attempted to speak out about your misdeeds, ask former Riverside County Sheriff Stan Sniff about Right on Daily. Then realize that it is your turn in 2026. You could always resign and do the right thing for the residents of the city instead…

2 Comments

  1. Come look at La Verne Ca. Same story with a twist. Most of the government is related to or work for University of La Verne/Hillcrest/Church of the Brethren. Many original families are cashing in and they are ruining this little city. Is very sad.

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