Entries Categorized as 'Bay Area News'

Going Down Avenue Q?

Date November 8, 2008

I said that I couldn’t endorse Measure Q, the quarter cent sales tax to fund the SMART train.  It doesn’t matter because Q won.
I have been contacted by supporters who say that BART is so much more expensive with its proprietary track system. I don’t mind spending the tax money to invest in alternative transportation, [...]

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Poisons, Poisons Everywhere Edition

Date July 24, 2008

A lot of developments are happening on the Light Brown Apple Moth and it is pretty disturbing. It seems that when the State announced that they would halt spraying over urban areas, it didn’t mean the entire program halted. They are still going to spray in undisclosed areas. The planned ground eradication programs are troubling. [...]

Posted in Bay Area News, Pesticides, Stop the Spray, Support AB977 Comments Comments

Post Headcold Edition: Night Time Children’s Cold and Cough Syrup Rocks

Date May 21, 2008

I slept like a baby through last night’s episode of The Endless Primary Show. I couldn’t take any more sadness about Ted Kennedy or China. I have been suffering through this head cold from hell since I got back home from going to Carole Migden’s house party. It started with a sore throat, and [...]

Posted in Bay Area News, Carole Migden, Hillary Clinton, Joe Nation, Marin Politics, Mark Leno, Obama, SMART, california politics Comments Comments

Local “Lion of the Left” Pleads Guilty

Date May 8, 2008

There was a time when my husband and I listened to KGO radio and especially Bernie Ward. We enjoyed how skillfully he rhetorically cornered right wing callers, became a part of his Sunday morning program church of the Holy Donut, and mourned with him when his friend Duane Garrett committed suicide off the Golden Gate [...]

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