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Re: “So Where Does Petaluma Councilmember Chris Albertson Live, Really?”
Of course he does not have to buy a house in Petaluma. But he does have to decide whether or not under state law his principal place of residence is Petaluma or Santa Barbara. You cannot have two "domiciles."
Re: “So Where Does Petaluma Councilmember Chris Albertson Live, Really?”
Armand, the point is that Albertson has officially declared, in effect, two "principal places of residence," two domiciles. Of course he does not have to buy a house. But he should decide whether or not his main place of residence is Petaluma or Santa Barbara. You cannot have it both ways.
Re: “So Where Does Petaluma Councilmember Chris Albertson Live, Really?”
This is very difficult news to swallow considering what is at stake here in Petaluma. Chris Albertson stated while campaigning, "I am confident that we can bring in environmentally friendly and well designed projects" -yet, it is obvious from statements on his website that he supports both of these two large retail shopping centers in Petaluma. He seems to be inclined to contradiction on many issues.
Does he live here or not? Does he support environmentally friendly development project or not?
These are very important planning decisions that are being made today for Petaluma's future -it's a shame we have untrustworthy city council members making these decisions.
Re: “So Where Does Petaluma Councilmember Chris Albertson Live, Really?”
Wow Peter, good journalism.
I think I see your frustration but here are a few thoughts ... so long as Anderson doesn't declare two principal residences on his taxes, I don't really see a "legal" issue here.
Should he be required to BUY in Petaluma just because he's 'employed' by the city, just because he's registered to vote here? He's a renter, yes, but his rent goes to a landlord, who then in turn pays County and City property taxes. It's not like he's renting in Novato (sending tax dollars to Marin county) and voting on Sonoma County ballot issues. Back to Santa Barbara, I remember when the long-term residents of that county didn't want us students at UCSB to be able to vote in their elections even though we were legally registered to vote. They basically made their argument on a point you seemed to suggest, that we weren't "permanent" residents of the area. We'd be voting on issues that would affect the county long after we packed up and moved back home or elsewhere - which I obviously did. (Who knows if they're still affected by my vote.) So is the real question whether or not Anderson intends to live here permanently or simply pack up and head to sunny Santa Barbara when his term is up? Maybe HE doesn't even know the answer to that question, and on this point I think I'll have to agree with Anderson - it's really none of my business.
But good job - I don't want to be on your bad side!
Re: “Endgame: R.E.M.’s Inspiring Second Half”
I love REM, awesome to see this great article by such an obsessed fan, I thought the U2 bit was funny, I like both bands, but it's U2 who gets all the attention and celebration, so keep a sense of humor, it's only fair to poke a little fun. REM is my unequivocal vote for best band of all time.
Re: “Facebook Grafitti Artist to Make $200m on IPO”
Right on David Choe! lol. guess he'll be touring the world, painting cartoons and chillin' with the ladies in Escobar's Cartagena mansion. Like he's been doing for years...
Re: “The Guerneville Flood Project: Rescue on the Backhoe”
We were living in Guerneville during the flood, and we went into Santa Rosa to pick up our son and get supplies and had to come back via Monte Rio due to the high water. Our family (and our dog) had to leave our car in Monte Rio and this photo shows how we, too, along with our dog, made it across the river. The very kind driver thought we might be the last ones across before it got too high to make the trip. We then hitched a ride in a pickup, along with a lot of other locals to the outside of Guerneville and then walked home, up on the hill, carrying our groceries in the rain. We were really happy to make it home.
We lived a couple of blocks from the helicopter rescues. There was no electricity and we used water that we collected in pans and buckets on our flat roof. Being safe and high on the hill, we decided to stay through the duration. We took in several dogs that people had to leave behind, and who happily later got reunited with their owners. We look back on it as an adventure, but there was a great deal of damage and loss.
Re: “The Guerneville Flood Project: Pulling the Car Out of the Water”
Andy Fava last ran a take-out diner in Guerneville, on the south side of the street between Church and Mill. It closed in 1981. Decades before he was involved with the Guerneville Hotel, where the parking lot for Coffee Bazaar is now located. The hotel had a mysterious ending. Check "Guerneville Early Days" by John Schubert.
Re: “The Guerneville Flood Project: Alex and Jane of Tinker's Tapes”
Alex Laszlo is the man known as Tinker. I last saw him in Rio Nido in April 2009. Then I moved down to Burbank, California. No, Alex had absolutely nothing to do with my moving! But he did congratulate me on my reason for moving (my first love in almost 50 years).
Re: “The Guerneville Flood Project: Alex and Jane of Tinker's Tapes”
Tinker was called Tinker because he was adept at repairing stuff by "tinkering" with it. It was after he decided to make a change that he opened his tape shop. Jane passed away after a battle with cancer. I believe Tinker's given name was Alex.
stephen gross (I took the above picture)
Re: “The Guerneville Flood Project: Alex and Jane of Tinker's Tapes”
MIkey and Ben still live in Guerneville along with their father.
Re: “Volagi Beats Specialized; Owes Them $1”
Congratulations Barley Forsman, Susan Forsman, Robert Choi ~~!!!!
Re: “New York Times to Sell the Press Democrat”
From a letter to the New York Times: Arthur Schulzberger
December 23, 2011
Dear Arthur :
We, the Guild leadership and many reporters, editors, account managers and other Times employees, Guild members and otherwise, are writing to express profound dismay at several recent developments.
Our foreign citizen employees in overseas bureaus have just had their pensions frozen with only a week’s warning. Some of these people have risked their lives so that we can do our jobs. A couple have even lost them. Many have spent their entire careers at the Times -- indeed, some have letters from your father explaining the pension system -- and deserve better treatment.
At the same time, your negotiators have demanded a freeze of our pension plan and an end to our independent health insurance.
We ask you to withdraw these demands so that negotiations on a new contract can proceed fruitfully and expeditiously. We also urge you to reconsider the decision to eliminate the pensions of the foreign employees.
We have worked long and hard for this company and have given up pay to keep it solvent. Some of us have risked our lives for it. You have eloquently recognized and paid moving tribute to our work and devotion. The deep disconnect between those words and the demands of your negotiators have given rise to a sense of betrayal.
One of our colleagues in senior management recently announced her retirement from the paper, which is reported to include a very generous severance and retirement package, including full pension benefits.
All of us who work at the Times deserve to have a secured retirement; this should not be a privilege cynically reserved to senior management. We strongly urge you to keep faith with your words and our shared mission of putting out the best newspaper in the world.
Signed,
1. Bill O'Meara, NY Newspaper Guild President
2. Grant Glickson, Unit Chair
3. Reed Abelson, Reporter
4. Michael Abrams, Culture backfield editor
5. David Alinkofsky, Staff Assistant
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115. Sean Patrick Farrell, Video Journalist
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Re: “Endgame: R.E.M.’s Inspiring Second Half”
good stuff!
Re: “Endgame: R.E.M.’s Inspiring Second Half”
Thanks for this heartfelt look back at the career of one of the greatest rock bands in music history. I completely agree with all the points made (except maybe G, since I don't know that bootleg). But the cheap shot at U2 at the very end is just stupid and kind of sours the whole review. I'm not a U2 fan by any means, but their skills and legacy cannot be denied. In the end, you come off sounding like some of the wannabe-cool idiots tweeting "Thank God" and "Didn't know they still existed" and "R.E.Who?" at REM's breakup without really knowing anything at all about the band, except for maybe Losing my Religion and Everybody Hurts (most likely the X-Factor version). Shame, cause the rest of the article was really good.
Re: “The Guerneville Flood Project: Rick and Diana Hearn”
I am Diana Hearn Now Seely those boys are Joshua Dennis Ricky the flood took every thing from us we had the clothes on our backs where did this photo come from
Re: “Fall Lit Jive Writing Contest”
I’ve stolen many things, but on that day, three years ago, it had been twenty years since my last theft. It was a bright yellow Ford Mustang convertible, a year old and begging to be taken. I was cruising down Elm Street on Saturday morning, just off the graveyard shift at Anytime Fitness and feeling great. I dropped my cigarette and when I looked up after grabbing it off the floor, there it was. I should explain I’ve always loved mustangs and yellow…well, you get the idea. Up until that point, I had been a reformed thief, but I couldn’t help myself, I was in love. I slowed down, and it was obvious that the owner loved that car almost as much as I did. It was perfect. I drove home, about four blocks away, parked my jalopy, and when I got back it was gone. I was heart broken but I went back several times over the next few days and finally, there it was, in the driveway. I parked my car around the block and sprinted back. The Mustang was running! I hopped in and felt a rush of adrenaline and a curious sense of freedom that I had almost forgotten. I turned onto Humboldt and opened it up, I was flying as I let the top down and the wind took it back in a rush. Then I heard it, hard to make out at first, but an unmistakable cry—a baby’s cry. And there she was, laying on the back seat, in a pink dress and yellow shoes, a beautiful little girl. She was not too happy about all that wind. I pulled over, lifted her from the back seat, and she nestled into my embrace. Jesus, what was I going to do? After driving around for about an hour I decided to turn myself, and the baby, in. The cops took the car and locked me up. I was concerned about the baby but more concerned with a kidnapping charge. I found out later that the baby girl was stolen even before I stole her, and it turned out that she was going to be sold on the black market. I served a year in county jail and the night I was released the parents of little Jasmine threw me a party. As for the Mustang, I stole it and I’m glad I did.
Re: “Fall Lit Jive Writing Contest”
Is this space in which I am now typing the space to submit my piece of fiction?
Re: “Sean Penn Campaigns for Norman Solomon in Petaluma”
Anytime Sean Penn Campaingns for anyone, a person who has common sense knows that person running for office would not be a Good Choice. The reason, you ask, well, consider the Facts; Sean Penn is a Communist.
This Week's Issue
Re: “So Where Does Petaluma Councilmember Chris Albertson Live, Really?”
Hi again Peter,
So I've thought about this one a lot, and I do admire your work, but I'll have to say that I respectfully disagree with you. "Principal residence" is an IRS definition, period. As you mentioned, I suspect Albertson declares the Santa Barbara home that way to benefit from the tax exemption and his mortgage interest tax deduction; he obviously doesn't have a 720 mile commute. So long as he's not collecting undeclared rental income on the property and he doesn't designate another home that way on his tax returns (plus the fact that his wife actually lives there), the Santa Barbara home pretty much meets the textbook definition of a "principal residence." (Though I suspect by our online discussion that we may have "nominated" the Albertsons for an audit next year, my apologies to the misses.)
Now, if he was registered to vote in Santa Barbara County as well then I suppose Atkinson would be a little concerned.
I'm not defending Albertson as a council member, but if he rents a home in Petaluma (as I rented half a bedroom in Santa Barbara for two years while in school) that makes him eligible to vote on Sonoma County issues. The IRS gives you one principle residence, and if you sleep there and telecommute or live 360 miles away and leave it to your wife, I doubt if they really care. And until they do, maybe we should let Mr. Albertson enjoy a "fuzzy" tax code like the rest of us and nail him instead on his voting record.