Today I begin with news written in straight fashion. I’ve done the numbers. Over the past three decades, the city of San Jose has poured nearly $60 million into the Hayes Mansion hotel and conference center, the great white elephant in Edenvale that the council voted to sell earlier this month.
The city won’t get that money back. When all is said and done, that’s my best estimate of the cost to the public of owning the impressive and sprawling 1905 mansion that once belonged to the H… (View original article)