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May 4, 2022
Activists Push Petaluma for Eviction Protections
By Will Carruthers
The Petaluma City Council on Monday, May 2, unanimously selected passing stronger protections for renters as one of the council’s legislative priorities...
Apr 20, 2022
PG&E Settles Wildfire Cases With $55 Million Deal
For better or worse, California’s largest utility company is here to stay.
Last year, Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch’s office filed numerous charges against...
Apr 5, 2022
Refuge Defenders: Sonoma Activists’ Role in Preventing Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge
Reading Finis Dunaway’s Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice, it’s hard not to think about...
Mar 23, 2022
Sonoma County Applies for More Rent Relief Funding
With the end of a state eviction protection law fast approaching, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, March 22, directed staff to...
Mar 9, 2022
Community Forum Calls for Extension of School Mask Mandates
On Tuesday, a coalition of Sonoma County medical professionals, parents, teachers and students called for an extension of local mask mandates in order to...
Feb 28, 2022
Anti-Mandate Group Tipped Press Democrat to Health Officer’s Charges
A Sonoma County anti-vaccine mandate group, Save Our Sonoma, took credit for tipping the Press Democrat off to Sonoma County Health Officer Dr. Sundari...
Feb 22, 2022
Marc Levine Pushes for Transparency at Department of Insurance
On Tuesday, Feb. 22, Assemblymember Marc Levine announced legislation which would require the state’s Department of Insurance to regularly disclose staffers’ communications with insurance...
Feb 22, 2022
Sonoma County Seeks Community Input on Hiring Next IOLERO Director
Sonoma County is asking for community feedback to guide a nationwide search to select the next director of the County’s Independent Office of Law...