Those recognizing manipulation when they see it laugh Donald Trump’s high-profile antics off and expect that the majority of us will too. I think that’s terribly apathetic, or at the least shortsighted. It brings to mind a nasty and manipulative period in California’s history roughly about 12 years ago when juuuuuust enough Californians did little …
Four years separating similar results. The colors of the flag I proudly fly have faded. As is the hope that buoyed me back in 2008. But the sense after yesterday’s election I get is that there’s a fresh determination to put politics aside and work together going forward. Operative word: forward. Let’s hope.
On July 14, in response to a post on BikinginLA to contact the Auto Club about its opposition to Senate Bill 910, (which would make it law for motorists to allow at least three feet when passing bicyclists), I wrote to the heads of the Northern and Southern California chapters, the letters of which you …
From the indispensable BikinginLA blog comes a call to point an angry finger at the leadership of the Northern and Southern California-based AAAs because of their insistence that Senate Bill 910, which would require drivers in the state to give bicyclists at least three feet of clearance when passing from behind, is a bad idea. …
Whether you ride every chance you get, haven’t in years, or are somewhere in between, we are all bicyclists. As such, please consider answering the California Bicycle Coalition’s call to submit your support for Senate Bill 910 — the 3-Foot Safe Passing Distance Bill — to the following elected representatives in the State Assembly and …
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There is so much post-election noise being generated. Rightfully and at times vibrantly so, but it can be disheartening because while the democrats nurse their wounds and talk about “listening” to the voters and the republicans trumpet their collective victory as a mandate for change, it’s just sounds like so much hooey. It’s hard to …
You’ve heard of lines that reach around blocks? Biking past the queue yesterday afternoon on my way home from the office, the line of spectators for yesterday’s Obama visit to USC reached around the entire university. Here’s the section of it I video’d along Jefferson just east of Vermont: My favorite person out of all …