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The Wearing of Masks and Decision-making

07/10/2020 1 Comment

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 No Comments

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 No Comments

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 No Comments

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 1 Comment

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 No Comments

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 1 Comment

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

Holly Street Redux

08/22/2014 No Comments

Ben Fuller, President of the Greater East San Carlos Neighborhood Association (GESC), recently published a post on NextDoor about the changes the Council made to no

1/13/2014 Answers to Pre Meeting Questions

01/17/2014 No Comments

Here are responses I received from staff regarding the questions I raised prior to the meeting. The corresponding questions are shown in italics. Since we’re

You can find the agenda these questions and suggestions refer to at http://www.epackets.net/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=1864&doctype=AGENDA. I’ve noted the agenda item number in parentheses. (8f, 10d) Since we’re being

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