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Category: Health & Safety

Gun Culture and Communities

05/15/2023 No Comments

This post was sparked by a Washington Post opinion piece which is, sadly, probably paywalled but worth reading if you can get ahold of it.

Acting Against Domestic Violence

09/12/2022 No Comments

This is a public comment I made to the San Carlos City Council at their 9/12/2022 meeting. Thank you Mayor McDowell and the rest of

Audits Are a Good Idea!

08/01/2022 No Comments

This is a letter to the editor I wrote to the Palo Alto Daily Post which was published August 1, 2022. It was sparked by

Sending Anger, Lots of It

05/24/2022 No Comments

The families suffering from a perfectly avoidable horror in Texas have my sympathy. But I’m not sending thoughts and prayers. Because those are useless, and

That’s What They’re For

04/12/2022 No Comments

This is op ed was published in the San Mateo Daily Journal on Monday, April 11, 2022. What you see here is slightly different from

Let’s Not Forget Commuting’s Carbon Footprint

12/08/2021 No Comments

This op ed ran in the Palo Alto Daily Post on December 8, 2021 (I’ll add a link to the paper’s version if and when

Droughts and First Come, First Served

12/07/2021 No Comments

Recently a question was raised on NextDoor about why new homes continue to be constructed when we’re in the middle of a multi-year drought. It’s

Commuting, Carbon Footprints and Data Mining

12/01/2021 No Comments

I was recently motivated to write an op ed about how the carbon footprint of commuting generally gets overlooked in discussions about addressing climate change.

A Conservative Budget in a Crisis Is Not a Good Thing

04/26/2021 No Comments

This is an op ed I wrote which was published in the Daily Post on April 26, 2021 under the title “Wrong kind of budget

Downtown Laurel Street Program Extended

11/10/2020 6 Comments

Last night the Council had a lengthy discussion focused on what the “end date” should be for our temporary downtown Laurel Street configuration. I say

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