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The Marin Post - Most Read Articles in 2024
These are the most read articles on the Marin Post during the entire 2024 calendar year, listed in order of readership. Many thanks to the entire Marin Post com... … more »
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SMART
Comments on the SMART Draft Strategic Plan
Every five years, the SMART Board must adopt a “Strategic Plan.” The one adopted on Wednesday is the next one in line. The fundamental problem with this st... … more »
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Goh
The Diagnostic Challenge: AI vs Doctors
Introduction To evaluate how well Large Language Models (LLMs) can diagnose health conditions vs doctors, I refer to three recent papers: Hager paper using a “C... … more »
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How a Yimby candidate with little experience became Berkeley’s next mayor
Adena Ishii has never held public office—but had some key endorsements, good luck, and perfect timing. Berkeley’s new mayor, education consultant Adena Ishii, is a... … more »
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Kirk Draheim
An Open letter to Gavin Newsom from Fairfax
Dear Governor Newsom, Though we welcome you and your family to Marin County, the spreading boondoggle you have created pertaining to affordable housing in Califor... … more »
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National Archives
Paradigm Shift - Part III: How Affordable Housing Need Powered the Modernist Movement
In 1900, about 2.3 million people, two-thirds of New York City’s population, lived in tenement housing, known as “cold-water flats.” The population density per s... … more »
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Guy
California electricity rates are exorbitant
California electricity rates are the most expensive on the Mainland (yellow in table below). They are far higher than for the US as a whole (green). Source: U.S.... … more »
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Wikipedia
Money Grows on Trees and Affordable Housing is Easy, Right?
“This is a case of collective amnesia and it’s not a good omen.” Local news is abuzz about the Serenity Apartments in the City of Larkspur. The project is now in... … more »
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CVP
Paradigm Shift – Part II: Housing Un-affordability May Be Just Beginning
Karl Marx famously wrote, "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." In the mid-1700s, when the Industrial Revolution began, approxi... … more »
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MMWD
Measuring the cost of a water leak (for MMWD customers)
Introduction For MMWD customers, water leaks can be very expensive. Many MMWD customers first become aware they have a water leak when they observe a huge jump i... … more »