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Kamala Harris Charged with Covering up Corruption by Residents of Radioactive Treasure Island
California Senator Kamala Harris who is now running for President of the United States was accused on 3/14/19 with obstruction of justice and involved in a corruption cover-up at the contaminated radioactive SF Treasure Island site by two former residents Felita Sample and Andre Patterson. Both Sample and Patterson were...
Little League: Petaluma Valley juniors survive late rally by Pacifica to win Northern California title
Petaluma Valley Little League now has a Northern California championship team. The league’s juniors squad survived some late-inning drama Saturday night to hold on for a 4-3 win over Pacifica in Rocklin, their second straight victory over Pacifica in as many days. The team is only the second Petaluma Valley Little League representative to make it to the regional postseason tournament and first ...
KamalaCare: Harris backed ‘Medicare for All’ and abolishing private insurance
Vice President Kamala Harris’s past support for “Medicare for All” places her well to the left of President Joe Biden and is likely to prove a liability for her as she seeks to win the 2024 presidential race. As senator from California, Harris supported Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) Medicare for All plan, which would have […]
Target offers to launch probe after shopper begs for self-checkout change – lines even stretched back to produce section
TARGET has said it will look into claims of clogging queues caused by a lack of available checkout kiosks at one of its stores. A shopper at the big box retailer fumed that lines were stretching back to the back of the shop - and demanded immediate action. "Target, please...
Santa Rosa salon owner gives a homeless man a job, connects him with son he hadn’t seen in 30 years
DeeAnna Huffman remembers hearing about Paul Wellines well before she ever met him. It was her dad who encountered him first. Paul was homeless and lived in a self-created camp near the salon Huffman co-owns on Mendocino Avenue. Some nights Paul would come down, sit at the wrought-iron table in front of the salon and use the power outlet to charge his DVD player. “My dad was probably the first ...
Soldiers with Santa Rosa-based battalion return home after long deployment
In the distance, an Allegiant Air Boeing 737 approached and like everyone around her, Julianna Hopkins of Rohnert Park looked over expectantly. Her husband, Staff Sgt. Aaron Hopkins, was aboard the plane, one of about 125 soldiers with the 579th Engineer Battalion to return home from the Middle East on Saturday. “It feels surreal that he’s actually going to be flying in at any moment right now ...
One of Sonoma’s Best Wineries Just Dropped a Stellar New Label
Savvy wine lovers who are fans of Vérité in Sonoma have a reason to celebrate: Pierre and Hélène Seillan, the father-daughter winemaking team behind the winery, have just released a new brand, Connaissance, and it has been worth the wait. Located in the Chalk Hill AVA between Healdsburg and Windsor, Vérité makes three of Sonoma’s best wines—La Muse, La Joie, and Le Desir—with grapes from their onsite vines and two other estate vineyards in nearby Alexander Valley and Knights Valley. Where the wines of Vérité are blended from holdings which span 18 vineyards and more than 50 individual blocks, Connaissance...
Builders say city impact fees hinder new housing. A recent Supreme Court ruling may give developers more power to fight them.
Jonathon Yu is not a professional developer, but he is interested in building new housing. In 2023, the 29-year-old product manager submitted plans to Sunnyvale to raze the modest 1,000-square-foot bungalow he bought a year earlier and replace it with a three-story, five-unit multifamily building. He paid a few thousand...
Woman wins Wine Country Half Marathon for 1st time in event's 20-year history
A woman won the Wine Country Half Marathon in Sonoma on Sunday for the first time in the event's 20-year history, organizers said.It was a great day for girl power, with veteran runner Liza Reichert winning in one hour, 19 minutes and 28 seconds in the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport Napa to Sonoma Wine Country Half Marathon. Reichert was declared the winner of the overall Half Marathon race Sunday. Second place in the overall race went to David Vaseliou, who was the second-place finisher at 1 hour, 20 minutes and 15 seconds. Third place in the Half Marathon overall...
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