Aug 26
For my efforts at jury service — the defense lawyer in a criminal case bounced me on a peremptory challenge — I received a check in the amount of $17.04 from the court. That seemed not worth the trip to the bank to deposit it. Fortunately my credit union now allows me to deposit checks …
Aug 13
From Bloomberg Aug. 13 2015. Americans living in rentals spent almost a third of their incomes on housing in the second quarter, the highest share in recent history. Rental affordability has steadily worsened, according to a new report from Zillow, which tracked data going back to 1979. A renter making the median income in the U.S. spent 30.2 percent …
Aug 12
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) recently published this study showing that for the majority of workers laid off in the recession of 2007-2009, a recovery of full time work has not happened. Great Recession Job Losses Severe, Enduring Of those who lost full-time jobs between 2007 and 2009, only about 50 percent were employed in January …
Jul 26
One of the rewards of my retirement is the time to get to long-postponed projects. Other than dropping 30 lbs and getting ripped abs, the longest-postponed project in my life has been updating How Was Your Week, the LifeRing convenor handbook. How Was Your Week came out originally in 2003, at a time when LifeRing …
Apr 16
By David Welsh (sub@sonic.net) via email: Victory for Berkeley Court deals another setback to USPS scheme to sell off Berkeley’s Post Office Here is a summary of the effect of the April 15th court decision, by the City of Berkeley’s attorney Antonio Rossmann: 1. “In a nutshell, Judge Alsup has effectively granted the City and …
Mar 20
The Water-Wise Home: How to Conserve, Capture, and Reuse Water in Your Home and Landscape, by Laura Allen, ISBN 9781612121697 Laura Allen was one of three women who founded the Greywater Guerrillas more than ten years ago, long before the current drought. They went to plumbing classes, devoured everything written on the subject, boned up …
Jan 29
After 28 years, I am retiring from the practice of law and closing my law office effective February 2, 2015. It’s been a great learning experience, and it’s been a privilege to make the acquaintance of so many excellent clients as well as adverse parties and attorneys. This is not necessarily a final decision. If …
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