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Oakland school district pissing away millions on administration and consultants
by tovarichpeter on 27 Jun 2019 3 comments, latest a day ago
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2

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Driverless cars are reality
by tovarichpeter on 29 Sep 2013 18 comments, latest 5 days ago
http://online.wsj.com/article/ Invalid email address. • You can't enter more than 20 emails. • Seperate multiple addresses with Commas. • Must enter an email address. • You must enter the ...

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Should HOAs be regulated
by tovarichpeter on 25 Apr 2016 28 comments, latest 9 days ago
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/br Raise your hand if you have ever lived in a community with a homeowners association. Raise your other hand if you ever wanted to punch your HOA in ...

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Trump was serious about buying Greenland
by tovarichpeter on 20 Aug 2019 79 comments, latest 11 days ago
https://www.sfgate.com/news/wo

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Stephen King: "I'm rich. Tax me."
by tovarichpeter on 23 Mar 2015 26 comments, latest 19 days ago
http://www.theguardian.com/boo America to increase the rate of tax paid by the country's rich. King himself currently pays taxes of around 28% on his income, and at a recent rally ...

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Sheldon and Miriam Adelson
by tovarichpeter on 30 Jun 2012 4 comments, latest 23 days ago
http://money.cnn.com/galleries Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam have a lot of money -- and they aren't afraid to use it for political purposes.

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China builds trackless train that’s much cheaper than BART
by tovarichpeter on 22 Jul 2018 9 comments, latest a month ago
https://metro.co.uk/2017/10/28

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Renting is cheaper than buying
by tovarichpeter on 10 Jan 2020 10 comments, latest a month ago
https://www.marketwatch.com/st

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Affordable housing is currently illegal to build in over 70% of San Francisco due to zoning code.
by tovarichpeter on 2 Apr 2019 8 comments, latest a month ago
https://www.thebaycitybeacon.c

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Mortgage Interest deduction is indefensible
by tovarichpeter on 27 Jul 2017 12 comments, latest a month ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/view

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25% of your electric bill is for things that are turned off
by tovarichpeter on 8 May 2016 5 comments, latest 2 months ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05

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The “Real ID” the DMV issued you isn’t real after all
by tovarichpeter on 22 Dec 2018 25 comments, latest 2 months ago
https://www.sacbee.com/news/po

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Suveillance breeds conformity
by tovarichpeter on 3 Jan 2014 3 comments, latest 2 months ago
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/0 Longtime Salon readers will have known for some years that Glenn Greenwald is an unapologetically opinionated journalist with an unwavering skepticism about corporate-government power. In 2013, the rest ...

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FAA wants to shrink airline seats even further
by tovarichpeter on 31 Jul 2017 23 comments, latest 2 months ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com look into it what she calledthe Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat. Judge Patricia Millett upbraided the FAAfor vacuousand vaporous evidence that the agency previously used to ...

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NIMBY is costing us trillions
by tovarichpeter on 30 Jul 2015 4 comments, latest 2 months ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ch From Texas, I mostly cover the energy industry and the tycoons who control it. I joined Forbes in 1999 and moved from New York to Houston in 2004. ...

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Multi generational families are coming back.
by tovarichpeter on 8 Jul 2017 8 comments, latest 2 months ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com

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How Hawkings is wrong
by tovarichpeter on 12 Oct 2015 5 comments, latest 2 months ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ti

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Things an HOA can’t do to you.
by tovarichpeter on 8 May 2018 31 comments, latest 2 months ago
http://www.realtor.com/advice/

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“Diversity” is destroying American colleges and universities
by tovarichpeter on 3 Feb 2020 7 comments, latest 3 months ago
https://thehill.com/opinion/ed

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AIPAC should register as a foreign agent
by tovarichpeter on 8 Mar 2018 59 comments, latest 3 months ago
https://forward.com/opinion/39 (Image added 18 Apr 2025)

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TSA to require CA residents to show passport to fly
by tovarichpeter on 29 Dec 2015 4 comments, latest 3 months ago
https://reason.com/blog/2015/1 Previously, TSA had allowed folks to submit instead to a full-body pat-down. Now comes even more troubling news. A decade ago, Congress passed The Real ID Act which ...

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Why you might want to avoid flying on United
by tovarichpeter on 28 Dec 2019 16 comments, latest 3 months ago
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea

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Trump's NIH cuts will be "catastrophic" says Bush NIH chief
by tovarichpeter on 17 Mar 2017 8 comments, latest 3 months ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/m The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Loading ... Loading ...

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Anti-vax parents throwing measles parties
by tovarichpeter on 13 Feb 2015 17 comments, latest 3 months ago
http://www.theonion.com/articl Local media in California have reported that some anti-vaxxer parents are considering throwing “measles parties” at which unvaccinated children can come in contact with infected children in order ...

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Bay Area building permits for homes and apartments drop sharply
by tovarichpeter on 1 Aug 2019 4 comments, latest 3 months ago
https://www.mercurynews.com/20

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Median wealth is down 20% since 1984, really
by tovarichpeter on 28 Jul 2014 4 comments, latest 4 months ago
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/ This is noteworthy because this cannot be explained as largely the result of the collapse of house prices that triggered the Great Recession. This indicates that we have ...

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Aspirin and Keytruda: Three cancer breakthroughs in one week
by tovarichpeter on 7 Sep 2015 4 comments, latest 4 months ago
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0 http://www.reuters.com/article http://www.reuters.com/article

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Why does the U.S. have military bases in almost every other country?
by tovarichpeter on 22 Jan 2019 5 comments, latest 4 months ago
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blo

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School shootings can be prevented
by tovarichpeter on 9 Dec 2019 2 comments, latest 4 months ago
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/

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TSA is security theatre, not security
by tovarichpeter on 28 Jan 2019 7 comments, latest 5 months ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/na

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Latest on marijuana legalization
by tovarichpeter on 24 Oct 2014 4 comments, latest 5 months ago
http://www.reformca.com/latest San Diego's Narcotics Task Force conducted a marijuana raid in Imperial Beach on Wednesday, and during the operation, a 10News photojournalist spotted an agent wearing a T-shirt with ...

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Zoning is still the main reason housing is unaffordable
by tovarichpeter on 25 Mar 2020 17 comments, latest 5 months ago
https://www.housingwire.com/ar

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Advertising is just a pollutant
by tovarichpeter on 2 Dec 2012 9 comments, latest 6 months ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Economists have been debating this topic for a century now, and a couple of broad camps have formed. Many argue that ads are ultimately beneficial, giving people more ...

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Peter Thiel bails on Trump
by tovarichpeter on 17 May 2020 5 comments, latest 7 months ago
https://www.thedailybeast.com/

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ATM fees hit record high, free checking accounts decline
by tovarichpeter on 24 Sep 2012 5 comments, latest 7 months ago
http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/2 Banks are hiking ATM fees to record levels and cutting back on free checking accounts, according to an industry report issued Monday. The financial research firm Bankrate,com said ...

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Public transit in the Bay Area is broken
by tovarichpeter on 22 Sep 2019 7 comments, latest 7 months ago
https://www.mercurynews.com/20

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Crime causes BART ridership to plunge
by tovarichpeter on 12 Feb 2020 14 comments, latest 9 months ago
https://www.sfgate.com/public-

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The biggest boondoggle in U.S. History
by tovarichpeter on 1 Jan 2015 22 comments, latest 9 months ago
http://thinkprogress.org/world With the vast amounts spent so far on the aircraft, the United States could have worked wonders, including providing every homeless person in the U.S. a $600,000 home. ...

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Andrew Yang’s UBI would be transformative.
by tovarichpeter on 3 Jan 2020 10 comments, latest 9 months ago
https://thehill.com/hilltv/ris

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Elon Musk is hiring for his newest project
by tovarichpeter on 26 Aug 2017 5 comments, latest 9 months ago
https://www.neuralink.com/

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