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    Mothers and Allies Challenge Wine Industrialist 

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    Shepherd
    Published on 05-08-2013 02:04 PM
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    By Shepherd Bliss
    WaccoBB.net

    Half a dozen mothers from Sebastopol and its countryside quickly rallied hundreds of people to their side to challenge Sonoma County’s Paul Hobbs Winery. He wants to convert a 40-acre apple orchard into a vineyard that would use pesticides; it borders five schools on Watertrough Road, including Apple Blossom and Orchard View. Together they have around 700 children.


    Photo: Amber Risucci

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    The Grand Bargain on Sonoma County Waste. 

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    Ernieman
    Published on 04-16-2013 11:15 AM
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    2. Sonoma County
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    by Ernie Carpenter
    WaccoBB.net

    Six years ago the Board of Supervisors decided to sell the Sonoma County Central Landfill (CLF) and the transfer stations to Republic Services, a large multi-national waste corporation. This sell off was called “Divestiture”. The reasons were numerous but the landfill was full and about 400 tons per day were being trucked out of the County to other landfills. Costs were escalating, there was an eleven million dollar shortfall in the funds required ...
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    Sonoma Clean Power is coming! 

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    Barry
    Published on 03-12-2013 08:39 PM
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    2. Energy Policy
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    Here's an interview I did with Woody Hastings of the Climate Protection Campaign and Sonoma Clean Power discussing the major change coming relatively soon that will allow you to choose where you get your power from!

    This is good news for you, good news for the local economy and good news for the environment!

    Please watch the video and reply publicly with any comments or questions.

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    What's your vision for the Sebastopol of 2034? 

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    tashabeauchamp
    Published on 01-27-2013 03:51 PM
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    Tasha Beauchamp
    WaccoBB.net

    How do you want your grown children to describe our town twenty years from now? This is essentially the question being asked at the

    Community Identity Meeting
    sponsored by the Planning Commission
    Thursday, Jan 31
    6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
    Veterans Building
    (282 S. High St.)

    In 2034, I would hope that "Local Flavor, Global Vision" would still be our motto. (Okay, maybe "Local Flavor. Galactic     ...
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    SSU’s New Ethics Center Compromised 

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    Shepherd
    Published on 01-21-2013 02:49 PM
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    By Shepherd Bliss
    WaccoBB.net

    Sonoma State University’s new Center for Ethics, Law, and Society has caused quite a stir among my colleagues and students during the first week of classes, as well as from others in Sonoma County.

    The notorious AIG gave two-thirds of the Ethics Center’s $16,000 first year budget. What might AIG’s intentions have been for funding the Center? AIG     has not been known for its ethics. In fact, the insurer’s risky bets on derivatives were
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    Gun Hearing in Santa Rosa with Mike Thompson 

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    Ernieman
    Published on 01-13-2013 10:52 AM
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    by Ernie Carpenter
    WaccoBB.net

    Congressman Mike Thompson, newly appointed Chair of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, held a Hearing in Santa Rosa at the Board of Supervisor Chambers on Thursday night 10 January. Good grief, you couldn’t get into the building. I knew my way around enough to wind up in the Board caucus room where there was a televised account of the hearing. Along with twenty some other people my friend Marc

    U.S. Rep
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    CVS Pharmacy Embattled Coast-to-Coast 

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    Shepherd
    Published on 01-11-2013 09:07 PM
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    2. CVS/Chase Project
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    By Shepherd Bliss
    WaccoBB.net

    Cities from coast-to-coast continue to resist the country-wide expansionist plans of the largest pharmacy in the United States, CVS. In a recent victory for activists, CVS abandoned plans to open a store in Nantucket, Massachusetts, bowing to pressure from a petition with over 4500 signatures.

    Family physician Greg Hinson, M.D., started that petition, according to the Boston Business Journal, Nov. 21, 2012. “CVS to Homogenize Nantucket:     ...
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