Category Archives: Plato’s Republic

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

Greetings, fellow democrats, all 56 of us

Posted on July 14, 2014 by markweiss86

What level of change is appropriate in the California Avenue Focus Area? Low Elaborate and describe your vision for the focus area. Consider land uses, urban design, transportation, social equity, and any other aspects that are important to you. I’d … Continue reading →

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The four types of growth

Posted on July 13, 2014 by markweiss86

Original – Original growth means that we continue as we have been doing the last five years at least and let the developers do whatever they want whenever they want which in the instant matter means more office space downtown, … Continue reading →

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Buff Monster Ice Cream green zombie resin head

Posted on July 13, 2014 by markweiss86

I put a $20 token into a gum ball machine at Geffen MOCA in L.A. and got a green zombie resin head ice cream from Buff Monster. (Not to be confused with green-wash net-zero pseudo-choice of four types of unstoppable … Continue reading →

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Plastic Alto and Plato’s Republic: your source for policy news, to dance to

Posted on July 13, 2014 by markweiss86

Plastic Alto is an arts blog — the name reference jazz legend Ornette Coleman — yet of the first 750 posts roughly one-quarter, or 188 posts and counting are about politics or policy. They are labeled by the category “Plato’s … Continue reading →

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Banjo Riot in Professorville, by Michael John Simmons of Fretboard Journal

Posted on July 12, 2014 by markweiss86

On Saturday I went to a picking party in Professorville, an elegant old neighborhood in Palo Alto. There were dozens of people there playing bluegrass, swing, folk and all sorts of good things in little clusters all over the garden … Continue reading →

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Our Palo Alto $325,000 slush fund to undermine Comp Plan

Posted on July 12, 2014 by markweiss86

I posted this under Gennady Sheyner’s coverage of the recent Planning and Transportation Commission meeting. I hope to write soonly about the Leadership Ad Hoc Comp Plan group or whatever they are called. People I like on that group, of … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto Free Press website covers Grand Jury report about 27 Uni

Posted on July 12, 2014 by markweiss86

And my response: Good story, Chad. Another point about 27 University is it is actually simultaneous with 456 University potentially back-online as a place for public events: City of Palo Alto staff actually took what they were hearing from residents … Continue reading →

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Pablo Cruise Palo Alto roots

Posted on July 12, 2014 by markweiss86

Pablo Cruise was all over the radio in 1977 “Place in the Sun”. Years later it was Gil Draper of Draper’s Music who hipped me to the fact that the band had Palo Alto roots. Here is a glib from … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto graffiti artist in dubious battle

Posted on July 3, 2014 by markweiss86

Note: I started this post as a note-pad on the mid-May incident at Gunn High, a 17-year-old charged for possible “hate crime graffiti”. The student newspaper, The Oracle, (of which I was editor in chief, or co-editor-in-chief, my junior and … Continue reading →

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How big is your hose?

Posted on July 3, 2014 by markweiss86

Palo Alto recently spent $1.2 million on a really nice, really big fire truck. If it were up to me, and I do sometimes think of  myself as the future Mayor of Palo Alto, I would have gone with, for … Continue reading →

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