Category Archives: Plato’s Republic

pertaining to government, the public sector, governance, democracy, politics, issues pertaining to such, like “freedom of speech” concepts

Some thoughts on the schools

Posted on January 30, 2015 by markweiss86

I stood after leaving the Open Forum part of Tuesday’s meeting in the dark with three strangers, with a Mom, her son and another boy,who might have been a speaker, a source quoted above and the son of someone I … Continue reading →

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Fairygodmother lauds politicians

Posted on January 28, 2015 by markweiss86

County Supes support Buena Vista kids with $8 M earmark, in Palo Alto Betty Peck, Saratoga’s fabled “Fairygodmother of kindergarten”, was a secret and perhaps hermetic lobbying force in the Santa Clara County Supervisors unanimous 5-0 decision to earmark $8 … Continue reading →

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Maybe it’s

Posted on January 27, 2015 by markweiss86

Cheryl Wheeler, 1997 about Jonesboro, Arkansas, Garth Brooks pka Chris Gaines, 2000 and me, at PAUSD meeting, apropos indirectly about Gunn student stress (which I am hesitant to call a “suicide cluster”) — and Cheryl did play this at Cubberley … Continue reading →

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Citizen 11.7

Posted on January 26, 2015 by markweiss86

Doctor Jonathan Reichental and his ilk consume $11.7 MILLION — that’s a thousand thousands for you or we non-math-majors and roughly 7 percent of our Palo Alto overall civic $150 M budget, and although staff and council gushed Monday during … Continue reading →

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New day in Palo Alto

Posted on January 26, 2015 by markweiss86

Janus is shifting her gaze from the winter to the spring, rebirth, what comes out of the ashes, what is around the corner now, the fourth week — my birthday week — of the new year. An auspice, I spied … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto Forwalk

Posted on January 24, 2015 by markweiss86

If, Elaine, Steve, Kate & Eric you are interested in walkability  per se and not just being useful to the devrlopers , shouldn’t you advocate a shoe factory, good for the tax base. And ignoring 456 as your group transverses … Continue reading →

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Jim Newton pen James Newton flute

Posted on January 23, 2015 by markweiss86

Wah hoo wah not wah-who-cares? to Jim Newton the former Paly Campanile Editor, The Dartmouth publisher, James Reston intern and LA Times editorialist and his new job teaching or reaching at UCLA, our tax dollars at work (although I still … Continue reading →

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Eartha Kitt as Catwoman w. Rene Marie ‘Lift Every Voice’

Posted on January 23, 2015 by markweiss86

(Congrats to Rene Marie, aka Rene Marie Croan and Rene Marie Stevens for Grammy nomination for Motema Records. I met Rene Marie, with Pete Douglas and Reggie Marshall and a lovely pasta dinner in Half Moon Bay a few years … Continue reading →

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Kate Lee Short the Oculus w. Dave Ellis various

Posted on January 23, 2015 by markweiss86

OR TO MY COI MISTRESS Seven p.m. to approximately 7:20 finds me, lweatcdr, as opposed to weat, at Palo Alto Art Center, party for “Hear This” sculpture and rather hip noises, and perchance peeps, then I am off to my … Continue reading →

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Tana, Franks and McCain confirmed for Palo Alto jazz panel

Posted on January 22, 2015 by markweiss86

And then, neutralizing gravity with love and pure will, they remained suspended in air inches below the ceiling and they kissed each other for a long, long timeK.V. Three jazz musicians with local ties headline a panel discussion for the … Continue reading →

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