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A dozen agents with the FBI and Riverside County District Attorney executed search warrants at Palm Springs City Hall on Tuesday morning, shutting the building down, sending employees home and removing evidence for an investigation. About half a dozen law enforcement officials are also at an apartment that Mayor Steve Pougnet listed as his home address in county voter registration records. Pougnet lives part of the year with his husband and two children in Colorado. Laura Eimiller, a public information officer with the FBI, said the warrants are sealed so she can't comment on their nature. But she did confirm...

Joy Tiz ©2010 Steve Pougnet, Palm Springs’ incompetent mayor, claims “stimulus” saved the city from a “major, major depression.” It’s hard to argue with that when one termer Pougnet, can point to the $1.37 million dollar gateway park that features not one, but two Bocce ball courts, or fields or whatever it is you need to play Bocce ball. Now that Palm Springs can boast of being home to two Bocce Ball things, can an economic boom be far behind? Under current leadership, Palm Springs has deteriorated into a ghost town—barely recognizable as the glamorous resort it once was. The...