Posts for October, 2010

The Apple Store of pot dispensaries

October 26th, 2010

That’s what one article called the San Francisco Patient and Resource Center, a medical marijuana dispensary that opened for business in the South of Market area. California legalized medicinal use of marijuana back in 1996 and in this November’s election many California cities are asking voters how to regulate and tax medical marijuana. [More]


Budget blues: Public Access, SCAN and the creative, educational “fringe”

October 14th, 2010

One of the more ardent groups of advocates fighting to change the Mayor’s budget comes from the world of public access television. When Comcast and Millenium were awarded the contracts to provide Seattle neighborhoods with cable television we gained franchise fee revenue. This money must be spent on community-related technology, including cable [More]


An unscientific parking poll

October 6th, 2010

For fun (don’t laugh) I posted a question on Facebook regarding the parking options facing City Council in the 2011-2012 proposed city budget.  Now, the world of my “friends” on Facebook is skewed to be a self-selected lot of green-ish civic-minded types -- by no means a full, statistically accurate cross [More]