MGI
Who’s Counting? How McKinsey Hyped California’s Housing Crisis
[This article was originally published in The Brooklyn Rail and is republished with permission] When Gavin Newsom was running for California governor in 2017, he ... … more »
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Amy Kalish
Dissonance: Do we really care about our own safety?
Two days after a strong warning by Daniel Borenstein (editorial editor of the East Bay Times) that the Bay Area needs to pull back it’s infrastructure projects bec... … more »
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MMWD
MMWD has a serious public pension problem like everyone else
The support for generous public pensions is based on two assumptions: The first one is that public employees' wages are much lower than what they could earn in ... … more »
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Marin Health
MarinHealth reaches tentative agreement with the California Nurses Association
MarinHealth is pleased to announce that it has reached a tentative agreement with the California Nurses Association (CNA), and the planned one-day strike by the re... … more »
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State of California
Housing, the Homeless, and the Clueless
“For every complex human problem, there is a solution that is neat, plausible, and wrong.” ~ H.L. Mencken In a recent “Weekly Update,” California Attor... … more »
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US District Court
Huntington Beach v. Newsom, RHNA, HCD, and state housing law
The City of Huntington Beach (the “CITY”) in Southern California has been in the news recently in its battle to push back on state housing laws, the Department of ... … more »
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Wikimedia Commons
How the MMWD exacerbated the 2020 - 2021 water crisis
From October 2020 to September 2021 we experienced our worst water crisis since 1976 - 1977. As shown on the graph above, the 2020 - 2021 period came in muc... … more »
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Richardson Terrace
Public participation: A thing of the past?
In the past few months, Marin has seen several oversized, multifamily, “urban infill” projects sail through the approval process with little opposition by planning... … more »
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Wikimedia Commons
Why the MMWD needs to implement huge rate increases
The MMWD needs to raise rates for several reasons: It is operating below break-even; It has a huge backlog of infrastructure assets it needs to replace; Initi... … more »
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CSPP
Public Unions vs. the People
A couple of weeks ago, one of our support group members spotted the book mentioned in the WSJ article, below. I ordered it from Amazon immediately and agree it i... … more »