Marge congratulates Norm Gunderson for his painting of a mallard to adorn the 3 cent stamp
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And kudos to EPA for enforcing the Clean Water Act apropos of the Cargill scheme to develop 1,400 acres of marshland in Redwood City, CA and to KQED forum with Joshua and San Jose Mercury with Paul Rogers for bringing the glad tidings.
if you merge or marge cargill with fargo you get cargo.
actual size but not actual duck:
andand: it was on my radar but I missed the boat, the chance to see Frances McDormand with the Wooster Group at Z Space SF last month, Ruthie Stein reports.
my notes on the Cargill discussion:
EPA cargill Kqed
David Lewis Save The Bay
Cargilll and DMB
David Smith Tice law (Stice Block)
40,000 infill sites
nearer to transit
absolutely the wrong place for housing
paul rogers san jose mercury
chron and merc editorialized against this project
2012 council forced cargill to withdraw project
150 elected officials opposed this project
diFi against it
corporate interests above the natural world
“saltworks”
Joshua
2008, charter initiative 2:1 failed
2012, may, we did withdraw.
downtown precise plan of RWC
their re-engagement to the bay, this site fits with
we feel it unfortunate that politics has entered the discussion.
it shouldn’t be political.
todd in RWC: 12,000 impact slow traffic on 101. 2-lane road only access in and out of there. bad move.
jim in marinwood: storm-surge barrier, like in london. bay model sausilito. museum.
(clean water act, rogers, 3/19, )
earthquake resistance. todd.
evaporator ponds for salt harvest. 5-year process.
Photo by Kenneth Lu via flicker curated by Rachael Myrow of KQED:
outro: Colin Meloy formerly Decca Carson’s office manager, of the Decemberists, “Down By the Water (out by the old main drag)”
encore: here i dreamt I was an architect:
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 