Adena-Ishii
Inside the Berkeley Mayoral Election - Part 6
In his January 16 column for The New Yorker, Jay Caspian Kang wondered: “Is California going through the early stages of a political realignment that has not qu... … more »
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Berkeley City Council
Inside the pervasive news media bias in the Berkeley mayoral election
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 »
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G. Lion
Is the U.S. the smartest country? Not by a long shot! It may not matter as much as you think
Introduction Within this essay I will compare the smarts of adults (16–65) across countries along three cognitive skills: Literacy Numeracy Adaptive problem... … more »
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TBP
Considering The Real Impacts of Sales Taxes
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 »
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CVP
Paradigm Shift – Part II: Housing Unaffordability 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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SMART
SMART could waste $1 billion over next 20 years
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 »
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Guy
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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Marin Post
The Marin Post's Most Read Articles in 2023
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 »
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SMART
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 »