Mayor Bob Taylor began his State of the City address to the Brentwood Chamber of Commerce last Thursday acknowledging a regional newspaper article slamming Brentwood as the “poster child for the foreclosure crisis.” He also read a letter in the same paper from a former Novato resident extolling the virtues of Brentwood, and then, with balance struck, made a vow:

“There are a lot of critics out there,” he said, “but we’re going to make this town even better than it is.”