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Can California’s health care providers help solve the state’s homelessness crisis
photo credit: Marc Albert/KRCB When a shortfall of several hundred thousand dollars almost derailed new homeless housing in Bakersfield, a health care company swooped in to salvage the project. That unorthodox move is part of a broader effort to commingle California’s health care and homeless services agencies. It comes as providers in both areas increasingly acknowledge that it’s nearly impossible to be healthy if you’re living on the street. Health care company Akido Labs covered about 10% of the cost to build that 16-unit project in Bakersfield. Health insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield is also funding homeless housing projects...
New airport fuel tank project prompts lawsuit
photo credit: Courtesy of STSSonoma County's airport. Plaintiffs are awaiting a hearing date in a lawsuit alleging a project at the Charles M Schulz-Sonoma County Airport could cause an aviation catastrophe. One of the main flight service companies operating at the airport is suing the county over a new above-ground fuel tank being installed by a competitor. Airport, and by extension county, officials have approved the tank and its location. Les Perry, a partner at Perry, Johnson, Anderson, Miller and Moskowitz is representing the Sonoma Jet Center. It's a firm providing maintenance, flight support and airport hangers, mainly to private planes. Perry told KRCB...
Local white sturgeon fish moves closer to endangered status
photo credit: US Fish & Wildlife Service via Bay City NewsA female sturgeon captured by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is tagged to document movement in the San Joaquin River Basin. April 17, 2024. After over 100 million years of existence, the white sturgeon may be fading from the San Francisco Bay estuary. On June 19, the California Fish and Game Commission approved white sturgeon as a candidate species for listing under the California Endangered Species Act. Bay Area scientists say their decline is due to increased pollution and a loss of deep-river spawning grounds. The listing could not only affect the sport fishing...
Prop 4: $10 billion bond for resilience, wildfire prevention makes ballot
photo credit: Stanislavsky A $10 billion statewide bond measure that would fund a range of environmental resilience and other projects will appear on the November ballot after the passage this week of a bill to place it before voters. Major projects funded by the bond revenue would include drinking water infrastructure and wildfire prevention. Passed as Senate Bill 867 on Wednesday, it was numbered by the end of the day by Secretary of State Shirley Weber as Proposition 4. It was one of 10 propositions numbered for the statewide ballot in November, including a separate bond measure for K-12 school infrastructure. Prop. 4, formally titled...
Pacific Gas & Electric says grid holding stable so far
photo credit: Pacific Gas & ElectricPG&E staff provide an update from their Emergency Operations Center in Vacavilleon power grid status and safety precautions for the early July heatwave on July 3rd, 2024. It’s an all hands on deck approach to the current heatwave in California; and that includes PG&E. On Wednesday, the utility giant provided a briefing from its emergency operations center in Vacaville. PG&E Meteorologist Scott Strenfel said the extreme heat smothering California could set new temperature records. "What we're going to see over the next seven days rivals some of our biggest heat waves that we've ever experienced," Strenfel said....
Enviros suing feds over vanishing shark
photo credit: Courtesy Michael Meier, Gillclub.The tope shark, also called a soupfin shark, snapper shark and school shark. Two environmental groups are suing federal officials for blowing a year-and-a-half past a deadline over consideration of protections for a shark species living off of our coast. The plaintiffs say the deadline, set by the feds themselves, lapsed in February of last year. David Derrick is a spokesman for the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups that filed suit. "Unfortunately, the agencies have a lot on their plate and it's not uncommon for them to miss deadlines, but it's our job to hold their feet to...
A new park in Healdsburg? One idea is being floated for the future
photo credit: Noah Abrams/KRCBThe remaining conveyor belt support towers stand on the Syar Industries gravel mine along the Bendway in the RussianRiver in Healdsburg. June 25th, 2024. Where the Russian River winds and wraps around Fitch Mountain and Healdsburg, crowds follow. Many flock to the cold water at Veterans Memorial Beach, but could there be another place for people to dip their toes? It’s called the Bendway Park, or at least that’s the name Eric Arneson’s giving it. "The main goal of this design is basically to connect people to the river," Arneson said. A landscape architect based in Santa Barbara, Arneson was...
Arbitrator nixes big rent increases sought by mobile home park
photo credit: Noah Abrams/KRCBInside Petaluma's Little Woods Mobile Park In a resounding defeat for a landlord this week, an arbitrator has rejected any and all rent increases at Petaluma's Little Woods Mobile Home Park. Park operators had sought to raise the charge for mobile home spaces by more than $1,500 a month. The average ground rent is currently $495. An appeal is possible, if not likely and park owners can petition for reimbursement of some legal costs. But Petaluma mobile home tenants rights advocate Jodi Johnson said the arbitrator recognized inconsistencies, contradictions and faulty methodology in the expert testimony and evidence from...
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