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Mill Valley lacks the ability to deal with a catastrophic event
Mill Valley is a great place to live… just don’t let your house catch on fire or get a heart attack here, because your house might burn down and hope that our Mill... … more »
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Courtesy of 'Kangaroo'
Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story
“Australia has the worst mammal extinction rate in the world. One out of three mammal extinctions in the last 400 years has occurred in Australia. Government raw... … more »
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Marin Post
CASA’s secret New York junket
42 people flew to Manhattan for a three-day event that had no real policy purpose -- and MTC is stonewalling on releasing the price tag. During the final meet... … more »
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Independent.co.uk
Marin Clean Energy's liability numbers
Marin Clean Energy's greenhouse gas (GHG) emission numbers are out and, once again, they do not track with reality. For the latest year of available data, MCE i... … more »
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Livable California
A Culture of Bullying, Secrecy and Disdain for Representative Democracy
You might think I'm writing about national politics, but I'm not. I'm writing about the cultural setting within which the ABAG Executive Board votes on CASA at t... … more »
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Livable California
Video from Rohnert Park CC meeting on the CASA Housing Compact
Livable CA is working diligently towards a goal of getting the ABAG (Association of Bay Area Governments) to vote to OPPOSE the staff recommendation to "authori... … more »
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COB.org
Affordable housing solutions: more government, less government, or smart government?
Black and white thinking is the death of creative problem solving. And the tendency to argue by “sound bite,” which has become so normalized by social media, leads... … more »
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AHO
Marin's Homeless Crisis: A Local Nonprofit Responds
In 4 years, the numbers of homeless youth ages 18 to 25 have increased nationally from 600,000 to 4.2 million according to February’s 2018 University of Chicago’s ... … more »
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Marin Post
What the regional housing “compact” amounts to—so far
So far, plenty of bills that will please developers and landlords; not so many for tenants and vulnerable communities The first installment of my CASA story liste... … more »
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Courtesy of 'Letter from Masanjia'
Letter from Masanjia: The Epic Story of Sun Yi and Julie Keith
“Everyone has aspirations. For me, freedom is more precious than anything else.” Sun Yi Several years ago, Julie Keith purchased a Halloween decoration—a plastic ... … more »