by admin | Mar 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
Vietnam Veterans Day commemorates the sacrifices of Vietnam veterans and their families and is part of a national effort to recognize the men and women who were denied a proper welcome upon returning home more than 50 years ago. On this day in 1973, the last combat...
by admin | Mar 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
Tom, don’t let MTC take away our pathway Join the Monthly Giving Circle to become a part of the ongoing movement for better biking! Dear Tom, Two weeks ago we were extremely disappointed and surprised to hear that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is...
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...
