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The Granny Flat Gambit: Vigilance and the Struggle for Self-Governance

Posted on December 19, 2009 by

“A people cannot have the consciousness of being self-governing unless they attend themselves to the things over against their doors.” — Benjamin Ide Wheeler. Those immortal words of the autocratic president of the University of California 100 years ago do … Continue reading →

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Who’s Killing Your Neighborhood? It’s Not a Mystery Anymore

Posted on October 23, 2009 by

For the last 18 months I tracked how the city dealt with the illegal conversion of a single-family home into a three-apartment tenement and wrote it as a 16-part mystery called “Whodunit: Who’s Killing My Neighborhood?” Now, I learn from … Continue reading →

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