Mark Primack
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Commentary | Our own worst enemy (opens the original)
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Righteousness has always been this city’s drug of choice. But the response to the proposed Seabright apartment project feels more like grief than outrage, and that’s cause for hope. George Orwell wrote, “By the time a man’s fifty, he’s got the face he deserves.” That’s also an inconvenient truth for a city that’s had its head in the sand for over four decades. Here’s a recap of how growth came to look like hell. It began around 1982, the year Santa Cruz just said no to small-scale infill housing
Commentary | No more policy-based facts for Santa Cruz (opens the original)
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Recently, the city of Santa Cruz’s water director reported here that a city committee had done a great job of recommending a perpetual state of water crisis as a way of life for this community. She even offered a board game for learning to live with water precarity. But Santa Cruz is not lacking in water; it falls from the sky here. No, it was and remains a purely political decision to discourage any attempts at updating and expanding our water storage capacity. Our leaders have consciously and
Commentary | When housing was a verb (opens the original)
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A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage. It sounded so positive rolling off the tongues of a post-depression generation. But then their children began questioning not only agribusiness, mass consumption and environmental degradation, but capitalism’s impact on the integrity of human engagement itself. I was interviewed recently — doesn’t happen often — and my French interrogator was excited to learn that I was at Woodstock. He asked what impact that experience had on work I did as a young
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