Monthly Archives: August 2010

Happy Friday

Happy Friday, boys and girls. Stay tuned: I have photos of President Obama & his family riding bikes. For most of this summer I’ve biked the 22 mile distance to San Jose from my office in Menlo Park. I usually Caltrain to work in the morning, but yesterday I planned to bike in. Unfortunately, I read more »

Paving over the food supply

I first became aware and concerned about sprawl during the eight years I lived in a central Illinois farm town. Illinois, with 22 million acres of corn and soybeans under production, exports $13 billion worth of grain and beans annually, yet in recent years has annually converted 100 thousand acres to development. It doesn’t take read more »

Black Hawk bike ban court case

From Bicycle Colorado: On Wednesday, August 18, three bicyclists that received tickets for riding their bikes in Black Hawk appeared in court for arraignment and pled not guilty based on an invalid ordinance. This initiates the legal process to determine the validity of the bike ban. At the hearing, the defense attorneys moved to dismiss read more »

Kay Blanset is a HERO

In April 2009, Ashleigh Jackson was hit by a silver BMW and seriously injured in a hit and run collision on Saratoga Los Gatos Road here in the Bay Area. One year later, police arrested Robert Schiro for the crime. Schiro at the time had a suspended license for previous DUI convictions, and it’s thought read more »

About that Fell Street Arco Station

While the people of planet Earth has mostly forgotten about the BP Gulf disaster and gone on with whatever it is we normally do, a small group of San Francisco radicals continue to keep the fire of indignation burning through direct action against a BP supplied gas station.

School driving ban?

We’ve all heard of the various schools that ban biking to school for supposed ‘safety’ reasons. In Bellbrook, Ohio, the local high school banned student driving to the school after a student died in a car crash nearly 40 years ago. Over the years, parents have lobbied to lift the ban. They finally got their read more »