Category: Biographical
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Public Safety
Asking my neighbors about what issues they care about here in El Cerrito, I have been a little bit surprised to hear a frequent theme: A decent number put “safety” at the top of their list. Safety is a big topic. It can mean many different things, not all of which are obvious. I think…
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Lovable El Cerrito
It’s probably time for me to talk a bit about how this blog came to exist. I was chatting with neighbors, and one of them told me of her bewilderment about how divisive the discourse about the city had become. “Looking around,” she said, “All I can think is how nice a place El Cerrito…
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Adventures on Nextdoor
Some weeks ago, right after the time of the Measure C library tax vote, I virtually bumped into some neighbors through mutuals on the left-leaning Twitter knockoff site, Bluesky. One of them was dropping some funny content (basically the reason I have an account, along with following cat rescues). This person made a couple of…
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The ECCRG Blog
I had no idea, back in January, that doing a deep read of a niche political blog was going to launch a months-long obsession with El Cerrito political history. One of the first things I observed, reading the El Cerrito Committee for Responsible Government (ECCRG) blog, was that it was telling a rather alarming story…
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Welcome!
Hi. My name is Rosemary Clark. I’m a biologist, an aspiring science fiction author, a gardener, a bicyclist, and I live in El Cerrito, California. I’ve lived in this town since 2011, first as a renter, then since 2019 as a homeowner. I don’t normally start internet conversations with a detailed biography. Generally, I think…