by admin | Mar 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
I don’t know who Sally Claire is, but she has been widely quoted about the failure of journalism. On journalism: “If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the...
by admin | Mar 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
With the City Council set to discuss the future of the Craneway tonight, It may be helpful to explain one issue at the heart of the matter – the Public Trust Doctrine. In California, the arcane public trust doctrine arrived with statehood and lofty language in the...
by admin | Mar 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
I wrote this on March 26, 2017, when my father, Thomas Franklin (Tom) Butt, who died at the age of 83 in 2000, would have been 100 years old. His father (my grandfather) lived to be 97. I think my father inherited the family genes, but it was lung cancer that ended...
by admin | Mar 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
A lack of institutional memory and a motivation to avoid confrontation has resulted in an incomplete and misleading staff report for the March 26 City Council meeting Item Q-1, Update on the Craneway Pavilion Request. As a public service and as the only City-related...
by admin | Mar 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
On my birthday yesterday, I visited the Craneway to check out the opening of the pickleball operation. I have to say, it was impressive. On a rainy and windy day, the Craneway and Assemble Restaurant were both packed with at least a couple hundred people. With 12...
by admin | Mar 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Thank you to those who wished me happy birthday – and even those who didn’t — it was a good one. We started the day before with some cake and Champagne at Interactive Resources, and then that evening, the whole family plus a Japanese exchange student staying...
