I'm referring to government-regulated affordable housing -- deed restricted to keep it affordable for 55 years, rent controlled and appreciation-limited, subject to income verification. Large projects of regulated Affordable Housing are rarely built in Sonoma, and the reasons are all about money. When the State... Continue
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If you feel like you're going crazy, you're not alone. Many of us feel our ship of state is floundering and that its rudder's fallen off. It's not just the antics of our dishonest and quarrelsome President that's troubling, but that America appears to have... Continue
Our fixation with moving screen images is perhaps the most obvious example of our fascination with change, but whether fast or slow, change unfailingly captures our attention. Change is so constant and pervasive that it is at times overwhelming, but change itself is really the... Continue
Each of us are born into The System, a social organization of rules and conventions developed and deployed by our fore bearers. Having been progressively adopted in the past, The System is always obsolete and in need of tinkering; the assumptions upon which The System... Continue
It was recently announced that millennials now outnumber baby boomers in the United States, a milestone in the history of American demographics. For nearly all our roughly seventy-five years, baby boomers have dominated trends in fashion, economics, technology, science and environment, but this chapter is... Continue
As modern life progresses and introduces new cultural forms, our tendency leans to retrieving artifacts from the past. This process of retrieval softens the shock of obsolescence; through names, shapes or designs, outdated cultural artifacts lend their comfort and familiarity to newer, less familiar ones.... Continue
In the brief time we spend on earth, each of us goes about our business in whatever particular way we do, placing one foot in front of the other as the days and years roll by. "Waxing philosophical," as my late father used to say,... Continue
Our pursuit of a machine that can think for itself -- gather experience, learn and apply that learning to new situations -- is long standing. The earliest computing machines, designed to calculate numbers, gave rise to fantasies of artificial intelligence through their faultless operation. As... Continue
Welcome to the I Am Larry Barnett Show. I'm your host Larry Barnett, and like you, I'm making it up as I go along. Hey, this is The Improv, right? I know, you're going to tell me you're busy starring in your own show, and coming... Continue
I'm not a dog owner. As I frequently quip when asked if I have a dog, "I don't have a dog, I have grandchildren." On my daily walk around town I do encounter many dog owners; in some cases, the dogs are so large and... Continue