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Marin Post - Most Read Articles in 2021
The following are the most read Blogs that appeared in the Marin Post in 2021, listed in order of readership.
Many thanks to the entire Marin Post community for their participation and financial support
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The American Dream is dying a slow death in California
It’s easy to become numb to warnings about the future, these days. Every minute of every day the mainstream media bombards us with shrieks about some new “crisis” ... … more »
MCE – Misleading Consumers Everywhere
The marketing campaign for Marin Clean Energy (MCE) has always been that it would deliver “green” energy and do it cheaper than PG&E. However, not only has much ... … more »
United Neighbors Spearhead SB9, SB10 Opposition
The 2021 CA Senate Housing Package is called "Building Opportunities for All." On first read, you might think it's "opportunities for all people in need of afford... … more »
Cities and Counties have until December 31st to adopt resolutions to control SB 9 impacts
Senate Bill 9 (Atkins) (the “Bill” or “SB 9”), the California Home Act, was signed into law by Governor Newsom on September 19, 2021 and becomes effective on Janu... … more »
SB478, the Environment, and Texas Abortion Laws
Sometimes these days it feels like time is running backward, like society is falling further and further behind on the progress made decades ago. Who would have im... … more »
First they came for local zoning control. Now they’re coming for your right to vote
We read a lot about the right to vote these days and how states are passing laws to deny people access to the polls. In California, everyone thinks nothing like ... … more »
California’s War Against Our Neighborhoods
California’s single-family neighborhoods and its cities and counties are under mounting attacks by a State Legislature that’s determined to pass a spate of ill-c... … more »
Mill Valley’s dysfunctional government rolls on - the Fire Ordinance Vegetation Management Plan
The City of Mill Valley seems to have lost its way, these days. Although a couple of councilmembers have made efforts to right the ship, this ocean liner remains o... … more »
The Housing Crisis Propaganda Machine
Big Wall Street Investment Firms, Big Real Estate, and Big Tech have generated billions in revenue from residential real estate. To capitalize on their residentia... … more »
Communities for Choice, a bipartisan, grassroots group has filed for the Californians for Community Planning Ballot Initiative to protect local control of zoning... … more »
After decades of mismanagement, MMWD blames its customers
The following letter has been sent to the Board of Directors of the Marin Municipal Water District, reprimanding them for their failure to properly plan for droug... … more »
Unintended consequences of SB 9 - RHNA quotas fulfilled without local rezoning?
In September, Newsom signed Senate Bill 9 into law. Among other things, SB 9 “would require a local agency to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban ... … more »
Misguided Housing Bill Bans Single-Family Zoning Forever: Here are SB-9's nitty gritty details
If you agree that Senate Bill 9 should be reversed, please click HERE to support the Californians for Community Planning Initiative. See the “TAKE ACTION” recom... … more »
Sausalito is at risk of losing its working waterfront
The “Marinship” is a large industrial and maritime-zoned area running along Sausalito’s waterfront from Napa Street on the south end to Gate 6 Road to the north. I... … more »
The real story behind SB 50 - The senate bill that will change your neighborhood, forever
If powerful special interests in Sacramento get their way, the State Legislature will effectively eliminate local control of planning and growth, open the door to ... … more »
The Gaslighting of Single-Family Zoning
This article was originally published in January of 2020. It is being republished now because it remains timely during the coming weeks, when critical housing legi... … more »
The housing debate in California has lost its way, while misguided class warfare continues
Like many political debates these days, discussions about housing policy have become buried in counterproductive ideological positions and misguided, sound-bite ... … more »
Questionable housing policies promoted by the Mill Valley DEI Task Force
The Mill Valley Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Task Force has released a 93-page Report with recommendations for six aspects of life in Mill Valley, includin... … more »
Alternatives to the 1 Hamilton Drive Affordable Housing Plan
The following comment letter has been submitted to the City of Mill Valley City Council in anticipation of their September 20, 2021 hearing to consider the proposed... … more »
California Housing Laws, Meeting Al Gore, and Taxing the Rich
In the spring of 1990, I found myself in Washington DC, spending a few days with a small group of donors to the Environmental Defense Fund, meeting Senators and me... … more »
Sacramento needs to take a break and stop passing housing laws
In 1989, my parents uprooted themselves from their home of 60 years in Queens, NYC, and retired to Sosua, a small town on the northern coast of the Dominican Repub... … more »
Constitutional Amendment Aims To Restore Local Control
Since 1879, the California State Constitution has contained strong protections for local government control. [1] This authority is founded on cities’ and counties... … more »
MCOSD and MCBC make a mockery of the Court – Open the Middagh Trail to biking
On the afternoon of June 7, 2021, Jon Campo, Natural Resource Planner for the Marin County Open Space District, sent out email notices to residents to inform them ... … more »
Directed and narrated by well-lauded veteran filmmaker John Walker, the flippantly titled Assholes: A Theory is a serious-as-a-heart-attack documentary film about ... … more »