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Prop 5 = Property Tax Crisis 2.0
A PROP 5 "NO" VOTE is the 2nd most important vote this November The first property tax crisis During the 1970s, Seniors were challenged to keep their homes d... … more »
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SMART [Train] looks really bad compared to CalTrain
Summary Benchmarking SMART vs CalTrain is an interesting exercise because the two systems are comparable. Their respective track distance between their main co... … more »
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SMART Marketing -- Spending Your Money to Convince You of the Wonders of SMART Rail
Since its inception, the Sonoma-Marin Area Rapid Transit (SMART) agency has a history of making bold claims about its value proposition while hiding its costs from... … more »
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Pinterest
The Dumbest Smart People
There’s no lack of fact-denying, anti-science people in the world, bent on holding onto really dumb ideas and resisting all attempts to be educated. But at the... … more »
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MP
An Alto Tunnel Primer
The following letter has been submitted to the Board of the Transportation Authority of Marin, regarding the misguided discussions about "re-opening" the Alto Tunn... … more »
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U.S. State Department
High anxiety and a conversation with ChatGPT-4
In the past 10 days, two teenagers in Iowa beat their Spanish teacher to death because she gave them a bad grade and a man shot a 6-year-old child and her parents ... … more »
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The Alto Tunnel Pipe Dream
Talk of reconstructing the Alto Tunnel between Mill Valley and Corte Madera for use as a north/sound multi-use route surfaced nearly 30 years ago, which prompted m... … more »
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Marin Post-Press Democat
The NCRA Boondoggle Part II: Other Bidders Never Had a Chance
Part II of this original investigative journalism by Bernard Meyers was first published in April of 2020, but is being republished again now because the story is... … more »
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John Burgess.The Press Democrat
The NCRA Boondoggle: From Bankruptcy to Bankruptcy in 30 years
This original investigative journalism by Bernard Meyers was first published in April of 2020, but is being republished again now because the story is finally gett... … more »
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Roland Li-The Chronicle
Downtowns and Transit after the Pandemic
Office buildings are quiet and few people are taking public transit. We’re in the middle of an economic shock, and some cities may never be the same. Econom... … more »