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I live in Marin County, one of the most affluent counties in America.  It is an extremely well-managed community (although budget cuts might have their effect here too).  Crime is low, streets are clean and well-maintained, and lovely flower beds and hanging pots brighten public walkways.  Our libraries are well-stocked and well-staffed, our town offices [...]

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The Marin IJ reports that almost $3,000,000 in stimulus money Americans will help the public school district in Ross, California:
Ross School has won the federal stimulus fund lottery.
School officials learned Friday they would receive a $2.85 million school construction bond tax credit as part of the federal stimulus bill – a credit Superintendent Tammy Murphy [...]

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The Marin IJ is running two polls today, one concerning employing illegal immigrants and the other asking whether “most Marin residents are environmental posers.”  As to the latter, with 375 votes cast, 82% of voters have answered that, yes, Marin residents are environmental posers.  I was vote number 375 in that regard. It’s a good [...]

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In Marin,  9 out of 10 bumperstickers one sees are liberal in context.  Make that 9.9 out of 10.
There’s the “Endless This War” sticker; and the still popular “Somewhere in Texas a village is missing its idiot” sticker; and the saccharine, unrealistic and facile “Coexist,” with the symbols of various religions used in lieu of [...]

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That the North Bay region (SF, Marin, etc.) will send a Democrat to the California Senate in November goes without saying. What’s interesting is that North Bay Democrats selected the most extremely Progressive (read: far Left) of the three people vying for that seat (Carole Migden, Joe Nation and Mark Leno). I [...]

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One of Tom Lehrer’s more bizarre songs was an early ditty called “My Home Town,” in which he sang rhapsodically about all the bizarre and criminal behavior exhibited by his town’s denizens:
I really have a yen
To go back once again,
Back to the place where no one wears a frown,
To see once more those super-special just [...]

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The other day, I had a delightful lunch with Staff Sargeant Jason Eck, the Army’s recruiter in Marin. I wrote about it here, at Pajamas Media.

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Greenies are always encouraging people to abandon their cars and opt for alternative, group transportation, such as buses, trains, carpools, etc.  In the San Francisco Bay Area, one of those alternative forms of transportation is the ferry.
Up in Marin, if they use the ferry, drivers can avoid endless traffic jams over the Golden Gate Bridge [...]

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