“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
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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
Honoring Those Who Stood Up
11/11/2014
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I opened last night’s Council meeting with this. We’re going to do something a little different tonight. We’ll be having the Boy Scouts of Troop