What if local business and civic leaders launched a Marin or "just" a Sausalito version of Sonoma County's innovative GoLocal Cooperative? That county above us used the free Ning option to launch their community movement. We have Buy Local banners around town yet locals do not see obvious benefits for them to follow up in some way.

Charles McG - a countywide citizen-involving initiative might be just your thing.… Continue

Jean-Luc Naret, the… Continue

Not invented here? Like Mike’s Bikes, Peet’s makes customers so happy it has spread its stores across the Bay and now into other states. Let’s not punish Peet’s because of its suceess and the company’s choice to serve us in a convenient, popular site – by the water. Certainly it serves as high a public use on the waterfront as… Continue

One of my favorite parts of living in Berkeley for years was visiting several of the homes and public buildings designed by California's first female architect -… Continue

From Hurricane Gulch to… Continue