Monthly Archives: October 2011

Can America’s Cup Improve SF Bay?

What a fright. Imagine if all the landfill planned for San Francisco Bay circa 1961 had been carried out. (ooo, creepy) (and I hope you “had” a HAPPY HALLOWEEN) In 1961, Cadillacs had tailfins. . . . . . bigger was better, and the city of Berkeley, for example, was planning to expand via landfill [...]

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A Million Bucks

If you’ve been playing Johnny Yachtracer for a while, you’ve said it yourself. If you’ve been playing Johnny Yachtwriter for a while, you’re written it. There were no losers. It’s a trite but perfectly-accurate assessment of an event in which scads of people had fun on the water, and a few of them won a [...]

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