Category: This Weeks News
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Major Victory for citizens of California
Sacramento Superior Court Withdraws State Standard for “Chrome-6” Court ruled statute not followed to demonstrate economic feasibility SACRAMENTO, May 10, 2017 – In May 2014, the Solano County Taxpayers Association (SCTA) and California Manufacturers & Technology Association (CMTA) jointly filed a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court asserting that the state did not consider economic feasibility in…
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Center for Food Safety won lawsuit to protect bees from toxic pesticides!
Credit to www.centerforfoodsafety.org – May 10, 2017 – In response to a case Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed four years ago, a Federal Court ruled last night that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) systematically violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) – a key wildlife protection law – when it approved bee-killing insecticides known as…
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BREAKING NEWS: Supervisor Lori Cowan Served
By Donna Westfall – May 9, 2017 – During public comment at the Board of Supervisors meeting this morning, Linda Sutter announced that she was serving Supervisor Lori Cowan with a Notice of Intent to Circulate Recall Petition (“Notice”). The reasons given on the Notice that contained 24 signatures: “When a person is elected to the…
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Another successful clean-up
By Donna Westfall – May 8, 2017 – Take a Bite out of Blight has done it again. A resident in the Bertsch Track had a need to have a pile of accumulated materials removed and Roger Gitlin organized a crew. When men, women and children can all work together for a common goal, that…
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It’s time to save our rural schools and communities
By Donna Westfall – May 6, 2017 – On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, introduced a bill to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program. Representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03), and Derek Kilmer (WA-06) introduced similar legislation in the House.…
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A True State of Emergency
By Donna Westfall – May 4, 2017 For the last two years we’ve had a horrible crab season, in part, caused by a government shut down, and this year, the government has closed the salmon season. But wait, there’s more. Now Governor Brown wants to increase the landing fees by over 2,500%. Think about it…
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May 4th – National Day of Prayer
Credit to Steve Holland of AOL.com – May 4, 2017 – It started in 1952 by a joint resolution of the United States Congress, and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman. The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance held on the first Thursday of May, inviting people of all faiths to pray for…
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Citizens File Lawsuit Against State of California
May 4, 2017 – Citizens for Fair Representation (CFR) will file a lawsuit against the State of California for lack of representation and dilution of vote. CFR represents citizens from 21 rural counties in the northern area of the State. A long list of plaintiffs have joined CFR in the lawsuit, representing a diversity of cultures,…
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Musicians to Begin Statewide Prison Tour at Pelican Bay
May 3, 2017 – A classical pianist from Canada, who now lives on a farm in Kentucky, is about to bring music to prison inmates in California. Eric Genuis is the founder of Concerts for Hope, a nonprofit organization that produces concerts for people in prisons, patients in VA hospitals and residents of homeless shelters—“forgotten”…
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AND THE CRYING TOWEL AWARD GOES TO, WAIT FOR IT, SUPERVISOR GERRY HEMMINGSEN
By Linda Sutter- May 2, 2017 – On March 28, 2017, Supervisor’s Cowan, Howard, and Hemmingsen violated the Brown act when Lori Cowan made a motion that she go to Washington D.C. as an alternate quickly seconded by Gerry Hemmingsen and passed by a vote of three with two dissenting. This was in violation of…