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15 Years of Content

Posted on 22 July 2009 (0)

Way back in the stone age of 1994 when I was the wee age of 22 I started a regional weekly newspaper that centered around music and culture. The heart and soul of the Synthesis Weekly has always been it’s regional focus from great writers like Max Sidman, Daniel Taylor, Matt Hogan (RIP), Spencer Teilmann [...]

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Kids on a Plane

Posted on 05 July 2009 (0)

SXSW is a battle - anyone who’s ever been there knows what I’m talking about. Two, maybe three hours sleep with a diet consisting of booze, Red Bull, BBQ and Zone Bars. Mix that with humidity, lots of walking, music and more music and you have the perfect formula for one of my favorite weeks [...]

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Chico Unified School District School Board is Failing

Posted on 27 May 2009 (0)

My oldest son just turned 5 last week - you know what he got for his birthday?
Stomach Flu.
Aside from that he ended up getting some Legos, some Wolverine stuff and a Kindergarten year that will now feature 50% more kids in a classroom.
Yes, the days of 20 kids to 1 teacher are gone in Chico. [...]

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Citibank Attempts to Buy a New Jet With Our Money.

Posted on 11 February 2009 (0)

In yet another example of what has become legalized corruption Citibank has had another outbreak of mental corporate syphilis. Citibank was planning on buying a brand new $50 million 12 passenger French built luxury jet. Sounds nice eh? At first when people started calling them out on it they were giving excuses that they had [...]

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