Supervisors Face Historic Affordable Housing Vote to Permit Trailers & Tiny Homes Sept 27 meeting to consider policy recommendation extending temp housing designation to county's lowest cost housing

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - August 29, 2022

Tomorrow afternoon, September 27, Supervisors will, for the first time ever, consider a change in…

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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

Posted by Delaine Eastin - August 31, 2021

The state of California has a flaw in our state constitution: the recall election. This…

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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

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - May 26, 2021

California Should Use One-Third of Huge Budget Surplus to Bury Fire-Causing Power Lines

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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

Posted by John Mutz - October 2, 2020

Yes on Sonoma County's Measure P remedies deadly unaccountability with funding for adequate oversight and…

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Health Professionals Urge Supes to Stop Chanate Giveaway & Retain Portion of Vital Public Land New petition to preserve County’s largest battered women shelter which would be rendered homeless if Supervisors vote to approve sketchy scheme on June 20

Posted by Dr. Panna Lossy - June 16, 2017

New petition to preserve County’s largest battered women shelter which would be rendered homeless if…

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Six Reasons to Vote No on Measure A, the “Marijuana Hypocrisy Tax” COMMENTARY: Alcohol is far more harmful than cannabis. A 10% tax on grapes & wineries would yield far more money for the County. But that will never happen.

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - March 2, 2017

Alcohol is far more harmful than cannabis. A 10% tax on grapes & wineries would…

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Sonoma Independent Wins Greater Bay Journalism Award for Library Story Column About Supervisors Refusal to Fund Restoration of Library Hours Despite Record Budget Surplus Wins First Place Award

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - October 14, 2016

The San Francisco Peninsula Press Club awarded the new Sonoma Independent its first two journalism…

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Sanders Political Evolutionaries Will Win In 2020. But It’s Now Time To Support Clinton And Defeat Trump Why the reformist Bernie supporters who insist on honest government for the public interest are the future of the Democratic Party

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - August 2, 2016

Led by more than 70% of the youngest voters in this country, we, the reformist…

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In Bypassing Warren As VP, Clinton Raises Risk Of Losing To Trump Commentary: Bernie Sanders' young and independent supporters are the last voters in the world who should be taken for granted.

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - July 24, 2016

 Hillary Clinton’s decision to pass over populist Democrat Elizabeth Warren to name Virginia Governor Tim…

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Will Sanders Campaign Fund the Grassroots to Win Big in the West and Ensure Fair Elections? Bernie’s key to winning more than 60% of the vote in California may be to shift millions from planned media buys to funding grassroots efforts

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - May 10, 2016

A growing number of Sanders supporters believe that Bernie’s key to winning Western States with…

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People-Powered Media Fuels Bernie’s Revolution to Restore Democracy A new generation of web-savvy Americans has awoken to the political empowerment that comes from being their own media filter

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - April 14, 2016

A people-powered media revolution is fueling Bernie Sander’s political “second American Revolution.” In a society…

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