Archive for the ‘The urban blight exploration junkie’ Category
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
This was my travel tale about Auzerais Avenue, one of San Jose's oldest streets. I got phone calls and letters from the widest cross section of the social spectrum on this one.
Bad Planning, No Donut
A STRIP OF ROAD that adequately represents a microcosm of all things San Jose is the ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
For this one, I used Anton La Vey's Law of the Trapezoid and applied it to the suburban wasteland of Stevens Creek Blvd & Kiely in San Jose. In all the writing classes, they always tell you to "write what you know"...
Hail Trapezoid
DESPITE the maneuverings of developers to slaughter everything ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
A recent column to kick off this category.
THE CIRCUS that is the Little Saigon debate isn't going away, and people are still congregating in front of City Hall every Tuesday to protest San Jose City Councilmember Madison Nguyen because she and others voted to rename a part of Story Road ...
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