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Palo Alto Joins Santa Cruz in Rejecting the Right to Sleep: A Sad Tale of Two Cities My Dreams of Sleep...
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2013 1:28pm PDT
Local ACLU Considers Challenge to Median Ordinance Standing Up for the Right to Stand Up...
Posted: Thu, Aug 1, 2013 12:05pm PDT
Bundling of Mortgage-Backed Securities and Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Can Proceed Judge Rules Landmark Lawsuit, First to Link Bundling of Mortgage-Backed Securities and Racial Discrimination, Can Proceed...
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2013 7:57pm PDT
Mayor's Public Safety Task Force Member is "fine with junkies dying" The City of Santa Cruz's Public Safety Task Force Member Steve Schlicht is quoted in an online thread as saying
he is "fine with junkies dying somewhere else. Outside the county is fine by me."...
Posted: Thu, Jul 25, 2013 5:41pm PDT
Furs By Graf Heavily Targeted By Activists In the early morning hours of July 16, 2013, anarchists in San Diego took
action on behalf of the millions of fur-bearing animals who are trapped,
enslaved, and killed to sustain the global fur industry....
Posted: Tue, Jul 23, 2013 1:24pm PDT
Racial Justice Demands Changes to Structure A Conversation Whose Time Has Come...
Posted: Mon, Jul 22, 2013 12:31pm PDT
Know Your Enemy What We Know and What We Don't Know About Fracking...
Posted: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 12:17pm PDT
Stop the Proposed Cell Tower in Downtown Boulder Creek THE PROPOSED TOWER:
Verizon plans to build a 50 ft. tall "Monopine" cell tower at 13260 Big Basin Hwy (across from Mountain Mechanics behind Jonnies). This tower will not serve Boulder Creek, but will increase service for Northern Santa Cruz. All of downtown, Boulder Creek Elementary, as well as multiple day care facilities will be within the 1000ft radiation radius of the tower. Whether or not radiation is a concern for your family (or business), real estate values and the scenic beauty ...
Posted: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 1:04pm PDT
Santa Cruz County Needle Exchange Survey With all of the discussions, arguments, and debates regarding the needle exchanges, I have put together a survey compiling public opinion to use in discussions on the radio, with county officials, and elsewhere....
Posted: Sun, Jul 14, 2013 8:35pm PDT
Steve Pleich Files for 2014 City Council Race Local ACLU Vice Chair Announces Candidacy...
Posted: Wed, Jul 10, 2013 12:08pm PDT
A Teapot Tempest or Two at Oral Communications Bike Church supporters lined up to urge City Council to end the SCPD's political boycott of The Bike Church and restore the flow of abandoned and damaged bikes stopped a year and a half ago. Bike Dojo bozo Rob Mills, the new Bike Mafioso who's the SCPD's designated dumpsite for bikes, spewed fire and brimstone at critics of his business. I played the infamous Ken Collins video showing Collins poking a homeless man in a sleeping bag as part of a Clean Team "clean up" operation....
Posted: Wed, Jul 10, 2013 3:13am PDT
Thinning forests won't prevent fires Research has shown that thinning does not help to stop wildfires, but actually causes them to spread....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2013 12:14pm PDT
Movie Review: Pandora's Promise Pandora's Promise is a fresh look at nuclear power from the perspective of former antinuclear activists who are now claiming that modern breeder reactors are the solution to all of our energy woes....
Posted: Sat, Jun 29, 2013 7:06am PDT
Opportunity to Respond to Draft Desal Project EIR Extended to Mid-August Santa Cruz, California – The draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed scwd2 Regional Seawater Desalination Project (proposed project) was made available on May 13, 2013. The comment period was scheduled to close on July 15, but has been extended another month, to Monday, August 12....
Posted: Fri, Jun 28, 2013 7:31pm PDT
Top Ten Desalination Disasters "The point I am trying to make is that the biggest risk in the desal business is not technology or operations – it is on the demand side. Hong Kong, Carboneras, Santa Barbara and Palm Jumeirah have all entailed significant wastage of money because the demand for water never came in as expected, and as a result tens of millions of dollars were wasted" -- Christopher Gasson...
Posted: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 1:29pm PDT
Book Review: Deep Web For Journalists The e-book Deep Web For Journalists is reviewed along with some pointers on how to anonymize some of your web searches for free....
Posted: Tue, Jun 25, 2013 8:47pm PDT
Plenty of Reason to Speak Up on Immigration Local Electeds Really Need to Hear the Voice of the People...
Posted: Wed, Jun 19, 2013 1:13pm PDT
A Year Later, Youth Programs Still Waiting on City Bicycles Since 1996 the City has distributed unclaimed bicycles to youth in need through nonprofits like the Bike Church and Barrios Unidos. Early last year they abrubptly ended this program and have given bikes instead to a for-profit business called the Bike Dojo, which should not even be allowed under City code to participate in the program, and which has sold many of the bicycles, also in violation of the Municipal Code. Despite admitting these problems, the City continues to distribute bikes to t...
Posted: Tue, Jun 11, 2013 6:00pm PDT
The Desal EIR & Lobbying: Plunging trust in SC City Council? The overwhelming passage of Measure P last year followed by a standing room only turnout at the City’s May 7 desal EIR “Study Session” sent a well-intentioned message about the people’s mistrust trust of local government which Santa Cruz politicians should heed....
Posted: Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:01pm PDT
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