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Proposed Urgency Ordinance to Protect People Living in Unpermitted Safe Alternative Housing from Government Eviction Grassroots affordable housing rights campaign pressures supervisors to take responsibility for shameful eviction of hundreds of low income renters
Next Tuesday, January 25, the Board of Supervisors will be meeting to set their legislative agenda, in advance, for the entire year! Last year, Supervisors…
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How Permit Sonoma’s code enforcement prevents safe and affordable housing By forcing 200 low income residents from trailers and tiny homes each year, the county criminalizes the most popular affordable housing option in California
In the past year, Permit Sonoma, the county’s code enforcement agency, has caused the eviction of about 200 low income alternative housing dwellers. Well over…
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Investigation Reveals Permit Sonoma Ordered Eviction of 189 Low Income Renters Last Year Hypocritical campaign targeting affordable trailers & tiny homes creates more homeless people than county government creates housing for
Hypocritical Sonoma County code enforcement campaign targeting affordable trailers & tiny homes creates more homeless people than county government creates housing for
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Homeless Action! Joins Effort to Stop Sonoma County Government Evictions Organization calls county vacate orders for nearly 200 low income renters from trailers and modest dwellings "shameful"
Sonoma County Homeless Action! announced on November 10, 2021 that it will support the Stop All Government Evictions (SAGE) campaign in its effort to urge…
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Campaign to Stop All Government Evictions Petitions Sonoma County Supervisors Sonoma County code enforcement has ordered more than 1,000 affordable dwellings vacated during the past decade, causing hundreds to become homeless
The government of Sonoma County has secretly become one of the largest destroyers of affordable safe housing in the North Bay. Although it spent more…
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How Composting Toilets can Help Solve our Affordable Housing Crisis Permit Sonoma orders eviction of over 100 low-income renters annually for composting toilets or black water tanks, adding to homeless crisis
Four years ago, in the midst of a skyrocketing housing market, I decided that the only way I was going to be able to remain…
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Sonoma Independent Wins Journalism Awards for 6th Straight Year SF Press Club awards our public interest news site five Greater Bay Journalism Awards
On October 5, the San Francisco Press Club announced its winners for the 2021 Greater Bay Journalism Awards for work published in NorCal media during…
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New Sebastopol Urgent Care Facility Opens at 555 Petaluma Ave Compassionate, expert care for most emergencies by two outstanding women physicians now open 7 days/week
As President of the Sonoma West Medical Foundation, I have been outspoken and passionate about the critical need for access to full service medical care…
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Turn Out to Vote NO on Recall to Prevent an Extremist Trumpster Governor Disgraceful recall process is an affront to democracy that could allow far right minority to torch Golden State’s progress
The state of California has a flaw in our state constitution: the recall election. This anti-democratic flaw allows a minority political party to endanger the…
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PG&E Bends to Grassroots Pressure Campaign to Bury Fire-Causing Power Lines Instead of plan to replace 50 miles a year, utility commits to burying 10,000 miles of overhead lines
PG&E’s sudden July 21 announcement to initiate what it called a Marshall Plan level effort to spend more than $15 billion to bury 1,000 miles…
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Historic CA-SAFE Trailer Bill Would Allocate $750 Million to Build Microgrids & Prevent Fires Proposed Climate Action Solutions Addressing Fire Emergencies bill uses 1% of budget surplus to fund SB-99
Historic Trailer Bill Allocates $500 Million for California Microgrids. Less than 1% of record budget surplus would provide funding for Senator Dodd's evolutionary SB-99 microgrid…
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Five Lessons InformYourVote.org Learned to Become NYC’s Most Viewed Voter Literacy Resource Social media doesn’t have to undermine democracy. It can help to strengthen it.
By disrupting a winner-take-all electoral system, ranked choice voting is an important step toward strengthening America’s imperiled democracy. But if it is not accompanied by…
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Burying 500 miles of Overhead Lines Would End the Plague of Power Shutdowns: Why Won’t California Do It? Sign petition to spend just 2% of budget surplus & challenge the Big Fire Prevention Lie that we can't afford it!
Sign petition to spend just 2% of budget surplus & challenge the Big Fire Prevention Lie that we can't afford it!
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California Can Bury State’s Fire-Causing Power Lines for Just 2% of Budget Surplus Urge legislators to use $1.5 billion to bury all the highest-risk lines & save us from destructive fires, smoke, power shutdowns & evacuations
California Should Use One-Third of Huge Budget Surplus to Bury Fire-Causing Power Lines
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Vote Yes on Measures A & B to Preserve Local High Schools Don't buy the tea party lies! Our civic duty includes paying taxes for public services that sustain our communities
Sonoma County is among the ten wealthiest counties in the richest state of the wealthiest nation on earth. Yet for the past decade, in the…
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Uplifting Schwarzenegger Video Speaks from the Heart to the Heartland Compares Capitol riot to Nazi violence & wishes Biden success in uniting America
Far from preaching to the choir, the historic videos message carries a compelling question to Republicans, Independents and Trump supporters.
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Dystopian Novel Envisions Water Oligarchies Threatening Human Existence "A Diary in the Age of Water" warns of climate catastrophe brought on by corporate greed
Dystopian Novel Envisions Water Oligarchies Threatening Human Existence
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ENDORSEMENT: Vote Yes on Prop 15 to End Obscene Tax Breaks for Real Estate Billionaires Developer-owned Press Democrat shamelessly opposes most important budget-boosting ballot measure of all time
Proposition 15, to finally tax commercial real estate in California the way every other state in the nation does, is a once in a lifetime…
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Vote YES on Measure P to Support Sonoma County Police Reform Yes on P remedies deadly unaccountability with funding for adequate oversight and independent investigatory power
Yes on Sonoma County's Measure P remedies deadly unaccountability with funding for adequate oversight and independent investigatory power
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“Vote in Person” Was Biden’s Most Important Debate Message The only way to stop Trump’s plan to steal this election is for Biden voters to cancel plans to mail in ballots and show up in person to vote on polling place machines
The only way to stop Trump’s plan to steal this election is for Biden voters to cancel plans to mail-in ballots and show up in…
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#Dumbkirk & the Benefits of Ridiculing Trumpsters From #Sinking to “woman & klansmen first!,” failed boat parade lifts opposition tide
After four years of bottomless hypocrisy, insults and over 20,000 verified lies, Trump not only invites ridicule, he deserves it. With deceit at the core…
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Trump’s Attack on Biden’s Faith Echoes Norman Peale’s Anti-Catholic Campaign Against Kennedy Peale's gospel of selfishness, America First ideology and obsession with winning at all costs formed core Trump values
Last week, Trump decided to double down on his campaign to attack Biden’s religious faith, spreading the lie that Democrats refused to say the word…
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Future of Democracy Video Debate Platform Debuts in Georgia and Indiana for Pandemic Era Elections Easy to access and share minute long videos of every candidate answering every debate question may be best solution ever for getting money out of politics
The coronavirus struck during the beginning of the primary election season and political debates were among the first events affected. Many debates were cancelled, while…
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Decision to Cancel New York Primary Outrages Sanders’ Supporters Governor Cuomo’s Power Play Disenfranchises State’s Many Progressive Voters and May Hurt Biden in November
The New York State Board of Elections has taken the unprecedented step of cancelling the Democratic presidential primary in New York. A provision added to…
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Why Public Health Officials Closed Our Parks and When Might They Reopen? Evidence proves that social distancing and staying home work to slow the spread but being outdoors is important for mental and physical health
Evidence proves that social distancing and staying home work to slow the spread but being outdoors is important for mental and physical health
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There’s Hope for Hope An evidence based intervention
This article is written by Julia Mossbridge, PhD and Laura Nissen, PhD. It was originally published here, on March 21, 2020. Hope is not a luxury,…
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The Panic Virus and How to Cure It
All viruses have things in common. They prey on those with the weakest immune systems. That’s why building up our immune system with a healthier…
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Six Reasons Why Bernie is More Likely to Beat Trump Than Biden
Six Reasons Why Bernie is More Likely to Beat Trump Than Biden: Don’t buy the corporatist lies. Bernie stands the best chance of winning.
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A Profound and Historic Question for Elizabeth Warren: Which Side Are You On?
The night before Super Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren spoke to several thousand people in a quadrangle at East Los Angeles College. Much of her talk recounted…
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Endorsement: Why Boomers Owe it to Our Young to Vote for Bernie Sanders
A widespread sense of collective cynicism has blanketed America’s oldest and wealthiest generation. It is the audacity of hopelessness: a political choice in opposing Bernie…
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