Courtesy of 'John Lewis: Good Trouble'
John Lewis: Good Trouble
“And I know that if John Lewis as a nineteen, twenty year-old, wasn’t doing what he did, I would not be here today.” ~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. After reading, se... … more »
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Susan Kirsch
Nix the Nine - ACT NOW
Last week, I introduced the Nix the Nine campaign as a call to stop nine housing bills that are working their way through this 2020 legislative session. These bills... … more »
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eva chrysanthe
“Unleashed on the Streets”: Marin’s Liberal Gatekeepers
“The family grew wealthy in the early 1970s when Mr. McGlashan’s father helped commercialize a way of quickly checking urine samples for drug traces. ‘At the drop ... … more »
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MultiFamily Housing
Tamalpais Area Design Development Standards Survey
Recent State of California legislation (such as SB 330 and SB 35) has changed the way that jurisdictions must go about ensuring high quality, sensitive design of m... … more »
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T Keith Gurnee
Say Goodbye to Your Neighborhood…
California’s legislature is attacking established single-family neighborhoods with a flurry of harmful housing legislation that threatens their very livability. ... … more »
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Susan Kirsch
NIX the NINE: A Remedy for Harmful Housing Policy
Our legislators are at it again, relentlessly pushing housing bills that benefit developers while damaging communities and ignoring the need for affordable housing... … more »
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Courtesy of 'Incarcerating US'
Incarcerating US
“From 1920, until 1970, this whole half-century of American history, the rate of incarceration was roughly level, at about 110 per 100,000. This is a broad span of... … more »
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californiastategov
California Budget Crisis and Economic Downturn
Recent news articles on the economy and future prospects for California are more than worrying. I think it will be worse. The article in the IJ on Tuesday by... … more »
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CSPP
Police unions’ power wanes, but how about teachers?
Many of you have written to me over the years - and especially recently - about public sector union power that perpetuates the pension crisis. It took a tragedy t... … more »
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AMG & Associates
The Camel is inside the tent – SB 35 and Novato’s “New Urbanism”
Senate Bill 35 was signed into law by Governor Newsom on 9/29/17. Its goal was to increase housing development by deconstructing local control of zoning and planni... … more »