This last week there have been flurries of articles and tweets about a subject that is near and dear to my heart.  Austin's push for r...

Earlier this week there was a disturbance in the force.  Ralph McQuarrie , long time illustrator and the man who brought much of George Luca...

Austin can keep its tax base at home.  But there are some things that need to happen first.  They aren't hard to understand, but for som...

I love my neighborhood.  It's walkable, close to BART which takes me to work in Oakland, and contains a grocery store just a quarter of ...

Wherever you lived in Texas at the time, you heard about the closing of Liberty Lunch . The iconic music venue had to close because of a re...

Our good friend and sometimes guest blogger Ed recently came back from Southeast Asia.  As they often do, our foreign correspondents take wo...

Who out there in transit land watches track and field on television?  I'm guessing not many of you.  But most of you know that there is ...

I recently read a Burlingame Patch article where a local officials said this: “What I would like to see…is for us to take a position sayi...

There are two sides to the phrase "my sport is your sports punishment".  On one hand the 80 - 90 miles a week I ran in college are...

While I haven't been posting much I still think about all of these issues every day. It doesn't matter whether it's a book I...