Host John Flavin is horrified by the decision of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments to go forward with a study of a mileage tax on Bay Area drivers, which could potentially raise $15 million a day. The implementation of this tax would require the installation of a GPS-like odometer in every car to track mileage. . . and your daily activities. Big Brother, anyone? John urges his listeners to contact their elected officials and nip this study in the bud. John shudders to think what else the Commission and Association have up their sleeves. . .
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Mitchell talks with Bay Area actor Scott Coopwood about his 2012 season with the Marin Shakespeare Company. Coopwood appears in all three of the 2012 productions, opening with the title role in King John, then playing Oberon, King of the Fairies in Midsummer Night’s Dream and closes the season in David Ives play The Liar.
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Host John Flavin points out the reasons the City of Sausalito should not rely on a seventeen year old Environment Impact Report to satisfy the California Environmental Quality Act’s requirements for the proposed Housing Element. Too much has changed with respect to both the law and the Sausalito environment to rely on this aged report.
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Frustrated by an unsuccessful direct approach, Host John Flavin follows in the steps of Bruce Wayne and creates Hootman, Scourge of Rats. John will share with you how the Dick Spotswood editorial in the July 15th Marin Independent Journal inspired the creation of Hootman. He will also describe the many obstacles to overcome before Hootman soars in the sky. He concludes with how you can help Hootman achieve his goals.
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Mitchell talks to Chris Gallagher, manager of the Sausalito’s Bay Model, a three-acre indoor 3-dimensional representation of the San Francisco Bay and Delta. The facility was built by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1940s, to test-out the so-called Reber Plan, a massive plan envisioned by John Reber to build dams and locks to harvest drinking water and support a railway and a highway.
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Host John Flavin lists a number of similarities and one notable exception amongst Vallejo, Stockton, San Bernadino and our own Sausalito regarding fiscal health. He urges listeners to demand a more extensive projection of our city budget and the appointment of a citizens’ committee to review the financial health of the city. He encourages the citizens not to “San Bernadino” Sausalito.
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Host John Flavin covers a veritable “pot pourri” of subjects ranging from kudos for the 4th of July festivities to Scientology to a strange bar fight to why you should embrace the Higgs boson “god particle” as an effective tool in your daily life. John thinks that in Marin the word should be pronounced “pot pourri”.
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A chat with Marin County painter Kathleen Lack whose work is featured in the book Best of American Oil Artists and whose paintings appear in the 2010 publication Portraits of the Ballet. Lack is known for her charming and colorful figures and portraits.
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Host John Flavin describes his ‘training day’ with the Southern Marin Fire District and shares what he learned inside a burning building with a bunch of firefighting professionals.
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Host John Flavin reviews a number of situations in which “the suits” in Government have demonstrated their inability to be criminals or cops. . . and the cover ups that followed.
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Mitchell chats with Symmetry Theater Company member, actress Danielle Levin, about Symmetry’s mission and her title role in Emilie at the Berkeley City Club through July 1, 2012.
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Host John Flavin cites Ray Bradbury, George Carlin and Moses (aka Charlton Heston) in support of his argument that political correctness is nothing less than polite censorship. He notes examples from Don Rickles and Chris Rock to illustrate his case. He urges you to do something politically incorrect today to keep the flames from reaching Fahrenheit 451, the burning point for paper.
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Mitchell talks with Marin artist Liz Swearingen, whose painting Coffee, took first prize in the 2012 Marin Society of Artists juried-show at the Marin Art and Garden Center in Ross, Calif., on June 10, 2012. The exhibition runs through June 30, 2012.
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Host John Flavin translates “A CEQA neg dec could negate the need for an EIR on the HE” into news you can use regarding the application or non-application of environmental standards, including traffic, parking, utilities, wildlife and coastal water, to Sausalito’s proposed Housing Element.
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Mitchell talks with fifth-generation Marinite Ken Rowland about his half-century of involvement in opera, theater acting and set design. Rowland has designed and built the sets for the Ross Valley Players theater and the Marin Mountain Plays for the past 25 seasons, as well as performing in many lead roles for both companies.
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Host John Flavin notes the money and the effort expended by the supporters of Measure D, the fire annexation, and reports his suspicions as to why the firefighters, the union and the three Sausalito City Council supporters of the annexation want the measure to pass. John doesn’t believe it’s a coincidence that the City Council vote on the Housing Element was postponed until after the results of the Measure D public vote are known.
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Host John Flavin uses the current turmoil over Measure D as an example of the democracy that so many have paid the ultimate price to defend. He encourages his listeners to celebrate, not bemoan, disagreement and to honor the fallen by exercising democracy, reading all the material and then voting on Measure D and all the ballot issues on an informed basis.
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