Appeals Court Tells City It Can’t Use Its Terribly-Written Zoning Laws To Censor Speech
Appeals Court Tells City It Can’t Use Its Terribly-Written Zoning Laws To Censor Speech
By Tim Cushing via Techdirt.
Category: News
Patch Seems To Be Relevant Again
“We go into SWAT team mode. In the past six months, we’ve found two miniature donkeys and one parrot.”
— Warren St. John, Patch’s editor-in-chief and former reporter for The New York Times, said to Lucia Moses regarding “Patch’s sweet spot [of] quick, high-impact posts… [one in particular] when a lost pet is reported”
Bay Delta Conservation Plan Public Review Period Extended… Again
Last Friday, lead state and federal agencies extended the public review period for the Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and associated Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) again. Originally released by the State of California for public comments on December 13, 2013, the due date was extended to an almost unheard of 180-day review. See Draft BDCP here. See Draft EIR/EIS here.
Longest. Public. Review. Period. Ever.
Vinton G. Cerf On Privacy And Technology
“Privacy may actually be an anomaly… It’s the industrial revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.”
— Vinton G. Cerf, Google’s chief internet evangelist, on privacy and technology at a Federal Trade Commission workshop (19 November 2013)
[photo via keso/flickr]
Gov. Jerry Brown On Solar Energy And Alternative Fuels
“I can remember 35 years ago when solar energy was associated with, I don’t know, bean sprouts and whatever else alternative people were doing in those days. Well, this is not alternative anymore.”
— Gov. Jerry Brown said at an event in San Francisco to promote electric vehicles and other alternative fuels
[photo via Shaun Wood/flickr]