Berkeley City Council
Missing context, misleading stories helped boost longshot Adena Ishii into the city's top office. Part Three of this series on the Berkeley mayoral election ... … more »
G. Lion
Introduction Within this essay I will compare the smarts of adults (16–65) across countries along three cognitive skills: Literacy Numeracy Adaptive problem... … more »
TBP
According to the Census Bureau’s report, “Census of Governments” in calendar year 2022, 789 billion dollars was raised through general and special sales taxes acro... … more »
CVP
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 »
SMART
I am not kidding. SMART could really waste $1 billion over the next 20 years if we let it. And, I am talking in real $2024 dollars. SMART only survives because o... … more »
Guy
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 »
Marin Post
These are the most read articles that appeared in the Marin Post in 2023, listed in order of readership. Many thanks to the entire Marin Post community for their ... … more »
SMART
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 »
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 »
MGI
[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 »