Category Archives: Plato’s Republic

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

Hoops legend endorses former player for Palo Alto City Council

Posted on August 12, 2014 by markweiss86

(my coach Hans Delannoy strolled Cubberley campus today and talked about old times. Hans led Gunn to league championships in 1980 and 1981 and was California Coach of the Year for leading San Ramon girls to a section championship in … Continue reading →

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Proposed ballot argument against local measure D on council composition

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Shall the Palo Alto City Charter be amended to change the number of Council Member seats from nine to seven, commencing on January 1, 2019? Henry David Thoreau famously said, “who governs best governs least” but in the same essay, … Continue reading →

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Gunn graffiti update or lack thereof, with Herrman here

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

I am still researching and trying to get traction on the purported “graffiti hate crime” of May, 2014, that included, as was reported in the Oracle and perhaps here “Thank God Villalobos is gone”. I wrote a letter to Chief … Continue reading →

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The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten songs, by Greil Marcus and Mark Weiss, or Grweisl Markus

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Call me pathetic call me what you will just don’t call me late to Cibo: “America has become amnesiac,” says Henry Giroux, “a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.” … Continue reading →

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Sane endorsement, strange interlude

Posted on August 9, 2014 by markweiss86

I got a tour of 801 Alma from a resident who felt some dissatisfaction with the management of the new PAHC building, based on the perceived lack of community among the resident, who moved in about a year ago. I … Continue reading →

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Mads Tolling Highlights the Twilight, August 16 in Palo Alto

Posted on August 9, 2014 by markweiss86

Mads Tolling Quartet plays the City of Palo Alto parks concert series, The Twilight, Saturday August 16. To my mind, as someone who has run Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto for 20 years, and produced more than 200 shows here, … Continue reading →

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Ripple Effect Thursday Aug 21 @ Mitchell Park

Posted on August 9, 2014 by markweiss86
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Our neighbors Ivonne Baker and Nancy Pleibel, plus their dogs Picasso, Peaches and Ginger, enjoying Kaitlin McGaw from a safe distance Thursday at Cogswell Plaza

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86
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Horsefeathers at JJ&F

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86

Why we are at it, why don’t we vette the developer of Alma Plaza and his relationship with his grocer tenant, the one that filed for bankruptcy soon after opening, which is a public document and seems to say, according … Continue reading →

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Speak friend and enter

Posted on August 8, 2014 by markweiss86

I hear Palantir has a new technology, call it a time-machine, with which it will be sending key employees back to 1974 to purchase homes in Palo Alto at the prices they deserve. A beta version of this over-shot considerably … Continue reading →

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