Sunday, September 22, 2019

Nobody walks to... San Mateo County Parks???

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Cities are for people. Unfortunately, they are rarely designed for people. It is usually apparent that those in power--and those designing c...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

LVVFD Calls: My first fire call

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I finally let my EMT certification expire last year after 20 years. In honor of that, and my 15 years on the Lee Vining Volunteer Fire Depar...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

The Ten Policy Solutions in the New Mark Arax Book

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I just finished the big book (The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California) yesterday. And what a book it is, in size (528 page...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

Governor Newsom: Time to enforce the law

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It's the wild west out there. It feels like no one is protecting the health, safety, and welfare of Californians. Governor Newsom'...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Rime Ice Rivers: How many ways can water flow down a mountain?

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Two years ago, I joined a couple of friends on a climbing trip to Mount Shasta. We failed to summit due to high early morning winds, and tur...
Friday, March 8, 2019

125 years ago L.A.'s first outfall sewer system was completed

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125 years ago, on March 9, 1894, the City of Los Angeles opened its "great drain," according to the March 10, 1894 Los Angeles Her...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

We don't need a Green New Deal. What we need is World War III on carbon.

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The term "Green New Deal" invokes images of a U.S.-only social welfare and jobs program. Entitlements to those who didn't get ...