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Last night I went to the Moving Ahead With Obama meeting at the Sausalito Cruising Club at 300 Napa Street in Sausalito. While I thought the evening among Obama supporters was very enlightening and inspiring, I think I found a really cool place to hang out. The Sausalito Cruising Club is a private club that […]

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Today is Election Day. It may not be a presidential election, but it is still important to show up and show your local politicians what you think of the job they are doing. It really does matter who we put into these local offices as they will most directly effect our everyday life here.
Not voting […]

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The Branded Bridge
Huzzah. the Golden Gate Bridge District ultimately voted down proposals for corporate branding on the Golden Gate Bridge in an October 26th meeting.
Okay. So the Golden Gate Bridge District board wasn’t proposing the bridge itself be festooned with corporate logos, but only bridge brochures, benches, trash cans, and other bridge-related projects. I think […]

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In a October 31st article, Marin IJ reports that there is a proposal floating around to have old fashioned electric trolleys connecting cities and towns of Marin. The architects estimate it would cost $20 million to $50 million to get a demonstration line running between The Depot in Mill Valley and the ferry terminal in […]

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On September 25, 2007 Supervisors Steve Kinsey, Judy Arnold and Hal Brown voted to allow more development on the Silviera Ranch/St. Vincents property than the Marin County Planning Commission recommended. Only Susan Adams and Charles McGlashan voted to uphold the commission’s recommendations which would have limited it to 221 units (100 units for low income […]

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I ran across a disturbing article about the melting of Greenland being 30% faster in the past 30 years. Since there was a possibility this would mean a sea rise of 7 meters or 24 feet, I went to the flood map and set it on 7m just for yucks. Just so you know what […]

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We saw an article over at CNN.COM about how this cover caused a big stink with their readers who are mostly mothers. This lead us to read a 2004 article about a woman who was hassled about public breastfeeding at the Osher Marin Jewish Community Center. In that case, a mother had to breastfeed in […]

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It’s hard out here for a maven. It’s hard to be civilized or sane when its so darned hot.
So, have you ever got out of your car after blasting the A/C and get smacked by a wave of unbearable heat and think, “How do people live like this?!?”, only to realize you DO live like […]

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Dear Drug Companies, Online Casinos, & Other Spammers of this Blog,
Stop it already — move along! Isn’t enough that you clog our mailboxes with spam? We assure you that we and those who read this blog have no need for erectile dysfunction or have time nor the desire to throw money away on online gambling.
In […]

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We enthusiastically urge everyone to give your wholehearted support to local Marin businesses, farms, and artisans — especially if you live here. The health of our local economic and natural eco-system depends on it. Local businesses have a stronger stake in our communities than those box stores where profits go elsewhere. Rather than supporting large […]

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Without seeing this film, we will suggest everyone go see this regardless if your opinion matches the current president or the guy who should have been our president in 2000…cough…Al Gore…cough. It will be playing on June 2nd at the CineArts at Sequoia in Mill Valley (25 Throckmorton Ave), or the California Theaters in Berkeley […]

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This site is completely powered by Henry’s House of Coffee. Rarely will I plug a product outside Marin County, but this stuff is liquid perfection beyond Peets and certainly Starbucks. Stop by his store in the Sunset District in San Francisco, and you can catch him roasting his own beans. The smell of the roasting […]

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No. No. Not those Yardbirds. I want to pay tribute to Yardbirds, the hardware store. Specifically, I want to pay tribute to the Yardbirds store on 4th Street in San Rafael. Yeah, I have been to Home Depot, but going to Yardbirds was just a better experience. At Yardbirds, you got help from people who […]

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Since Bell Market in Marinwood closed down, we have been forced to shop at Safeway Terra Linda. This Safeway is known for its crazy parking lot with speeding cars (even with speed bumps). Once you are in Safeway, you are stuck in not so express lanes being force fed tabloid journalism. Recently, however, we have come […]

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