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Yes, but people need homes—and it’s either urban infill or rural sprawl. One is clearly more sustainable. Blocking infill just shifts growth to areas that increase emissions and destroy more …

I agree, we need to increase production, storage, and transmission, but these things are not mutually exclusive. Considering that clean energy projects take decades to build out, ironically due to …

A) Blue dogs lose too (the caucus is shrinking) and centrist “electability” is a myth anyway. B) Some of the people you listed are not blue dogs. Sherrod Brown is …

Just today, California either curtailed or exported, practically at a loss, nearly 50,000 megawatts of energy that it could not use during the daytime. That amount would be close to …

Unfortunately, we are in a bifurcated political system where it’s winner take all. Both parties run campaigns targeting counties to win just 1 more vote to put them over the …

100%. Very well spoken and right to the point. Really enjoyed your presentation.I just left CA after 25 yrs and I’m back in the NE now. As a life long …

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves 🎶

Aaaand now Cher is singing in my head

Offshore wind is far from perfect — I’m not pretending otherwise. But the environmental tradeoffs of responsible wind development pale in comparison to the ecological genocide that awaits us if …

You’re right of course. I should have said Tramps but times change and now people think those are ho’s. lol

A black eye for Arcata ever sense the family of Leendert Devries bought the place.

Criminalizing the unhoused is wrong, but It’s also not compassionate to let someone slowly die of a treatable illness just because they’re too deep in addiction to ask for help. …

Hey now, og hobos were actually workers who did small/odd jobs and moved around, not looking for handouts.Insurance policies have made that lifestyle impossible now, because even the guy offering …

Yes but, human shit on sidewalks and tents/mattresses/daily trash left in riverbanks is way worse.

Yes, and no. 90% of those boomers had 2+ kids, that have now become parents. MANY are living in the same space, so a chunk of the boomers aren’t leaving …

Title should be EPIC sells off coast.

Pat was one of the kindest, most generous of women. I’ll never forget her.Dena Pulverman

Indeed. It’s fascinating to me to see these historical arguments continue almost 150 years after the events. Barring some unlikely discovery of long-hidden “smoking gun” evidence, I expect that we’ll …

OMG. Mortgage calculator. $400k, 30 years, 5.27%, payments $2.214 Property taxes and insurance add on. Say $5k per year property and $2k insurance for an addition est $600/month, total est …

So if I can’t afford to buy a house, but I can afford to rent a house, I can’t rent a house because the person who owns it lives there. …

Excellent historical research, Alex!

If the reserve isn’t met, it returns to the bank. I wonder what the reserve was?

Thank you Elle for for your very important, passionate, inspiring & wise words. Democracy is not guaranteed. Democracy is not a spectator sport & tag! We’re all it. For too …

Very purdy……

That may be a logical outcome of the current political direction. Doesn’t have to happen. It’s an imperative to get this crop of hooligans out of Washington.

I never said it metour current needs, just saying it’s a start, like in the article. This grant was going somewhere, we might as well have it. I mean, the …

Of course they do. As long as they can make them money.

The lack of attention to detail in your posts tells me all I need to know about how excruciatingly deep your ignorance goes. Sporadic capitalization, misspelled words, textspeak, making unfounded …

That fucking prick tRump and his sycophants, are you deaf, dumb, and blind? Now the bastard has put up a giant banner of him glaring down like an orange version …