A new article of mine on the wonderful, warm, witty Ken Brown...

While not exactly a Luddite, Sonoma City Council member Ken Brown got rid of his checkbook in favor of cash 10 years ago, doesn't own a television, bicycles as his primary form of transportation and only began using his office computer after it sat on his desk for five years. Yet, says, Brown, "I always wanted to be an executive; I like to be in control." Fortunately, the town of Sonoma, Brown's personal and public domain, lends itself to just such kinds of seeming contradictions.

"Sonoma is home to eccentrics and people who think outside the box. I mean totally outside the box," he chuckles.

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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/05.25.05/brown-0521.html