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Sonoma County supervisors place Bay Area affordable housing bond on the November ballot
Come November, Sonoma County voters will weigh in on a proposed Bay Area-wide property tax hike to raise money for affordable housing construction. The measure, known as Bay Area Housing for All, could unlock $20 billion from annual surcharges on property tax bills to spur construction of up to 119,000 affordable homes regionwide over 10-plus years. It will appear on the ballot in all nine Bay ...
North Bay feeling impact of global Microsoft outage
Websites, airlines, banks and other businesses were busy doing reboots Friday following a massive global technology outage, but although the outage was certainly being felt in Sonoma and surrounding counties, it was not crippling systems. The impact to Sonoma County government computers was limited Friday morning, said Paul Gullixson, communications...
Windsor ballot measure would trash competitive bidding for garbage contract
photo credit: Courtesy GoogleMaps Cans out for trash day in Windsor. In November, voters in Windsor will be asked to get rid of a local law passed by Windsor voters in 1996. That gave ordinary residents more say in local garbage service. Measure is Q on the ballot in Windsor only. It would officially eliminate competitive bidding from the town's waste hauler selection process, and dump a ten-year limit on those contacts. Why change now? Alissa Johnson is on the board of directors of Windsor's Chamber of Commerce. She also works for Windsor's current trash hauler, Sonoma County Resource Recovery....one of the main drivers behind...
Double whammy of heat, smoke hit Sonoma and Napa counties
A double whammy of smoke from fires in Northern California — though not in the immediate area — and high temperatures is hitting Sonoma and Napa counties, leading to an air quality advisory and a heat advisory for both on Friday. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued an air quality advisory for the Bay Area, especially at higher elevations, and for the North Bay. Residents may ...
Lessons from the land: Greg Sarris’ new stories reflect on the natural world and Native America identity
“There is a patch of land where nothing grows,” Greg Sarris writes in “A Man Learns to Smell Flowers,” one of the stories in his new book, “Forgetters.”. The Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo Indians believe this flat, dry expanse along the road between Freestone and Bodega Bay was once was covered by a lush meadow of clover. They called it “a beautiful place.”
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