Well that ties in nicely to getting rid of PG&E and other extortionate commercially run utilities.

If a publicly owned utility can put money into maintenance and safety upgrades instead of executive pay, that alone would save many lives, e.g. the Paradise fire, San Bruno gas explosion, etc.

On the other hand, rural power might just be more expensive, and unreliable, because PG&E has siphoned off maintenance funds towards executive pay and shareholder value.

I also experienced much lower rates when I was living in Sacramento, which also has a municipal electric utility SMUD.

Fuck PG&E.

Walking up 6 stories to get to your apartment every day?

When our apartment elevator goes out, I have to walk up 3 stories every day, and it is the pits.

Now imagine the piano movers are doing their thing in your single staircase building when a fire happens.

There has to be alternative escape routes, like external fire escape stairways, not to mention how the disabled will have to be evacuated from upper floors.

The fire marshal should be taking their time to get the rules right.

Until it gets up into the Sierras and melts the snowpack, which is already low at 50% of “historical normal”.

First of all, I love Katie too.

Her polling at 10% is practically a tie with the frontrunners, but unless she actually does something to gain traction, such as actually showing up to debates to put her face on our screens, it’s as if she’s not interested anymore, and seeking to cut a deal with another candidate in exchange for her support.

It sounds like this one will be a warm rain, which is weird.

https://creationent.com/events/stlv-26/

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According to this page: https://www.highspeedinternet.com/ca/fremont

Earthlink(!)
AT&T
EIN (never heard of 'em)
Sail (never heard of 'em either)

Offer fiber internet service to some percentage of Fremont.

Way to say absolutely nothing about what the show is about, while featuring none of the cast.

I can’t say I’d look forward to watching that every week to get me into the mood for the show.

It’s to explain why some of our local gas stations are fenced up.

I’ve encountered 2 of them just this week.

They’re still listed as open, but when I arrived, they were fenced.

(Sausalito Vice Mayor Melissa Blaustein said) "The problem we’re really dealing with here is that these systems were designed in World War II,” she said. “The way our flood levels have changed, the way our sea levels have changed, just the way the general infrastructure has aged, they’re not sufficient for the times we’re living in.”

Either protect what they have, or the people and businesses have to become climate refugees.

Please vote Yes on the transit tax initiative in November!

Corps bought 26% of all affordable home sales in the country last quarter

Insufficient new housing construction, CEQA abuse and local zoning limits on building multifamily structures too.

I don’t think that’s the right question…

The proposal(s) wouldn’t force the corporates to sell, but would take them out of the competition for affordable homes.

That would open up the opportunity to build wealth by increasing the number of first time home buyers, whom the corps were competing against for lower priced homes.

Corporate landlords have pluses and minuses, particularly in a high cost market like California.

But by keeping corporate landlords out, the number of first time home buyers should go up, because that’s reduced competition for the most affordable homes.

I’m sure that our perception of “cold” is far from other places that get snow, freezing rain, etc too!

But yeah, 46C: Yowch!