Vancouver: Staying at a friend’s condo in the gas town area of Vancouver, I could see the freight containers being craned into place on the docks of the port throughout the night. The steel wheels of trains pushed them down the track and inland from this western port as they came in from the west. I …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Watching Fahrenheit 9/11 in Lafayette with Local 100 Leaders
Lafayette: An extra treat for our annual SEIU Local 100 Leadership Conference this year was a last minute addition and an unexpected surprise. One of our office staff approached me on the Friday before we left for Lafayette about how I would feel about some entertainment for the leadership meeting? Why not, I thought. She then …
Lucas – Star Wars – the Presidio
San Francisco: George Lucas has a place up the coast from San Francisco in the northern part of Marin County – one of the richest counties in the United States – where he does his highly successful film thing. One reads that it is all state of the art this and highly computerized that, because that …