Archive for December 2025

September 27, 2024 Image by Wally Gobetz t’s easy, after scanning the tenth article about who has access to keys to SJ Parks, to get skeptical about the status of our local political discourse. Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti finds a way out—reclaiming wonder—from his “A Coney Island of the Mind,” 1958. “I Am Waiting” (excerpt) I…

November 26, 2025 Hypnotica Studios Infinite from Toms River, New Jersey, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons It was a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago. On December 4, 1965, the Grateful Dead’s first gig playin’ in the band as the Dead took place in a large house that once stood on the current…

August 19, 2024 Image by José Román While local pols, SJ City staff, and housing ‘advocates’ clamor for more and more destructive rent control, the facts on the ground undermine their arguments. Newsweek reports on how the reform-minded admin in Argentina put a chainsaw to the country’s pernicious rent control regime, and affordable housing flourished. Argentina’s…