Those Pesky Externalities
09/11/2023
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This is an op ed I wrote which was published in the San Mateo Daily Journal on September 11, 2023. Free marketeers have complained about
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“Originalism” and Voting Rights
10/25/2022
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Over at The Boiling Frog, Seth and I recently published our 19th podcast, on voting rights. As we do with all our podcasts, we ended
Ray Mueller for District 3 Board of Supervisors
10/12/2022
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This is a letter to the editor I wrote which was published in the San Mateo Daily Journal on 10/12/2022. Editor: I was an elected
Find the Milk!
08/16/2021
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This is a letter to the editor I wrote which was published in the Palo Alto Daily Post on 8/16/2021. Let the games begin! Today
The Wearing of Masks and Decision-making
07/10/2020
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This article was sparked by a flurry of emails I got recently asking me, as a Council member, to be sure mask-wearing wasn’t made mandatory.
Freedom and the Law
02/14/2020
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A recent NextDoor comment asserted the Council broke the law regarding how our train depot was treated in the Transit Village/Trestle Apartment project. Because the
Allocating Property Taxes
12/14/2019
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Ever since I became an elected official I’ve been asked why we can’t reallocate our property taxes among the various public agencies they fund to
The Fundamentalist Constitutional Perspective
11/25/2017
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This essay was sparked by a comment I got on my post, The 2nd Amendment Does Not Prevent Firearm Regulation. Here’s the comment: It is
So You Want to Be a Council Person?
03/04/2015
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This being an odd-numbered year, there are seats coming up for re-election on the San Carlos City Council (and on the San Carlos School Board
Getting It In Writing
12/10/2014
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This op ed ran, in substantially similar form, in the Daily Post on Wednesday, December 10, 2014. When the Constitution was being drafted there was