CSPP
How do we get out of pension hole?
Sometimes I read a particularly good article or editorial that really needs to be shared. This is one. While we wait for the CA Supreme Court to hear the rema... … more »
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ABAG
Report on ABAG to MCCMC April 2019
Below is my monthly ABAG report to the Marin County Mayors and Council Members. I provide written reports every month and most of the time, give a brief verba... … more »
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Marin Post
Letter to CA Senate Governance and Finance Committee - SB 50 - OPPOSED
The following letter has been sent to Senator Mike McGuire and members of the California Senate Governance and Finance Committee. Senator Mike McGuire Chair, Sena... … more »
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CDC
Decline in measles vaccination is causing a preventable resurgence of the disease
In 2000, measles was declared to be eliminated in the United States. Today, the US and many other countries are experiencing outbreaks of measles because of declines in measles vaccine coverage. … more »
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Courtesy of 'Right to Harm'
Right To Harm: The Fight to End Factory Farms
“We’ve taken the right to farm to the point where it’s easily called the right to harm.” Gary Nester, Iowa County Resident Right To Harm is Annie Speicher’s and M... … more »
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NYC.gov
New York City is about to pass its own Green New Deal
Instead of forcing social engineering and draconian tax schemes on the public, as we are in the Bay Area, New York City is addressing its biggest carbon polluters: existing urban buildings. They solutions and proposals are realistic, flexible, doable and they even provide financing methods. The Bay Area should take notice. … more »
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CVP
Livable California and CVP file cease & desist letter with ABAG Board for Brown Act violations
Members of Livable California (LC), Community Venture Partners (CVP), and other Marin Post journalists have written extensively about Senate Bill 50 (Wiener – San ... … more »
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OHIAS
A message from Mother Earth
Mother Earth here, listen-up! —I’m resilient, I can handle an occasional asteroid like the one 65 million years ago that killed all dinosaurs. My injuries have hea... … more »
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University of Vienna
When it comes to learning about risk, what's better: The carrot or the stick?
Does the potential to win or lose money influence the confidence one has in one's own decisions? Researchers investigated confidence bias in a learning context through a system of monetary punishment and reward. Ironically, we learn more from pain than from gain. … more »
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Novato Exposed
Here we go again - Another rate hike from the North Marin Water District
Constant fee increases and government and special district taxes are driving the working class, middle class and seniors out of Novato, and ultimately out of the state. The good people of Novato deserve better than constant money grabs. … more »