Brian Edwards-Tiekert
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Yeah, and also PG&E manages to run a *wild* amount of transmission investment through a self-approval process. Ref: www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc...
The case against fireworks, presented on behalf of my dog Murphy
Just another day on the 2026 internet researching labor rights under a Collective Sarmfaong Rekeement
Honestly impressed the AUSA did the vouching where you could find it with Control-F "vouch"
We cluster candidate names by letter, but randomize the order of the letters, *and* the order within letters. Go fish!
Even after you make your choice voting in a California primary is like Where's Waldo.
Grateful that the crack NYT economics team covering this morning's inflation figures took the time to explain to us laypeople what tomatoes are.
So many blessings in our lives and when I pause to enjoy them I idly speculate that plenty of people in Berlin circa 1939 got to enjoy a nice picnic every now and then.
Apropos of nothing in particular this happened 8 years, 5 months, and 5 days before the US declared an end to its war in Iraq.
Berkeley -> Guerneville today. We crossed the RSR bridge at rush hour and all the motorists seemed to be moving at a fine face despite the massive inconvenience of a bike lane.
In this rendering, that $500k minimum price range leaves out the bartender at the City Tap Room, the servers and kitchen staff in the restaurants, and the landscaper looking after the tree wells. They'll be housed <waves hands> somewhere else.
Rail connection to the outside is more an aspiration than a plan. Highway widening is a required element. (Sramak's justification is highways enable people in nearby exurbs to commute to CF's employment centers--and those commutes may be shorter than what they're currently doing).
Notable to me: the pitch Sramak makes on car dependency is that residents of CF will produce fewer VMT (Vehicle Miles Travelled) than *other greenfield developments in Solano County*. This is setting an extremely low bar, as Solano has the 9-county Bay Area's highest VMT per capita.
Grateful in a world on fire that I'm a short bike ride from someplace you can walk between mounds of blooming wildflowers and watch the sun set over the golden gate
Mournfully pulling up old photos from Beirut, a vibrant, cosmopolitan city, a cultural crossroads and architectural crazy-quilt, full of kind and lovely people who've endured so much and deserve so much better.
Cultural hegemony is when someone on a staff reporter salary writes the story of an illegal apartments-to-mansion conversion centering the perspective of the couple who had to "tap into their savings" to spend $5 million on a 3700-square-foot home.
Fashionably dressed man breaking pet rules on BART would like more rules enforced on BART.
Meanwhile the principal beneficiary of an EV subsidy in California's budget would be the company of a guy who helped secure the cuts to federal funds hammering California's budget.
NYT, in adjacent paragraphs, arguing the US War on terror worked, and also describing how it created ISIS.
Broke: Fighting homelessness with housing Woke: Fighting homelessness with police Bespoke: Fighting homelessness by imposing work requirements on disabled people.
We got one of the Ava e-bike vouchers and brought home a fun e-bike but the charger fine print is giving me pause. You can only charge indoors, on concrete/brick, while you're present to keep an eye on things? So don't get an e-bike unless you have a garage and enjoy spending time in it?
At this point if Subway doesn't roll out a "Point Blank BLT" or "Felony Footlong" it's not serious about making money.
IMPROBABLY, VOTERS ELECT CANDIDATE WITH CHARISMA, LOOKS, POPULAR POLICIES, SUPERIOR CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION, AND CONSPICUOUS LACK OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS