Exhorbitant Sonoma County rents are pushing many to come up with creative solutions to survive. One of those solutions is the tiny house movement. Did you know this movement, that has swept the...

Celebrate International Wetlands Day with an early winter morning on the Laguna de Santa Rosa with local wetland birder “Duck Man” Dave Barry! We will visit two sites along the Laguna, not normally...

Joshua Bamberger MD MPH, Homeless expert will address
"Hard Answers: Freedom and Homelessness"

Dr. Bamberger was recently appointed as Associate Director of UCSF's $30 million Benioff...

Ah but you know not what they did, do you?

It has come to my attention that there is no resource in
Sonoma county for materials and plastic ,and wood sculpture (toys)
to be creatively re-used .

San Francisco has "Scrap" oakland has the...

Ideas are just ideas, without the power to implement them. Many ideas I've seen expressed here are intelligent, compassionate, affordable, and possible, but those in power have a different...

Thanks for keeping this topic open;

I just want to add a not so small perspective to the larger issue

I have seen (on a day I was taking a huge sack of survival equipment to the homeless in...

The "forgotten white working class" sees the Democrats as offering them more generous food stamp benefits, while Trump claimed he would stop Carrier Air Conditioning, Ford Motor Corporation and...

David at Sonoma Chocolatiers, (formerly Infusions Teahouse) the winner of the Best Chocolatier in Sonoma County for the last eight years, winner of numerous first place awards at the County Fair, has...

I imagine many people have already seen this, but just in case some have missed it, I'm posting the link. It's hard to take at the beginning, but consider the source. Watch it through to the end--a...

with all due respect, i'd like to point out that these points have been brought to both the SR City Council and the BOS, for quite a long time, both by the homeless themselves and homeless advocates,...

Tent cities Work.

They did during other times in people history.

It may be, the BEST we can do is to allow well-run tent cities for all the millions of homeless people in the US.

Why would...

I never implied that the needs of ALL are not relevant nor that only advocates of the homeless need to be heard.
It’s obvious to me that you didn’t take the time to listen to the SR City Council...

So, where would you like these homeless folks to go? Isn’t that what it comes down to? I heard a lot of stories of people who were about to move into a place and then the fires happened. They lost...

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P.S. from my original: At my age, almost 80, and two college degrees, my income is way in the middle of what is defined as poverty level. I don't think of myself as impoverished, by any means, but...

i don't know about co.ordination.
everyone who is staying here lost their house this morning. after rushing around, & taking care of people, horses, dogs and cats, i am numb.
like smoke from a...

those of you who are safe, please check on your santa rosa neighbors and open your homes.
we have filled out bath tubs, horse troughs, and all containers w. water in case we loose electricity (we...

it's so unbelievable to me the lack of compassion for those of us who just aren't ever going to get a piece of that lovely pie or realize any american dream because while it's all going down like the...

I surely would not vote for you, were I a Gville voter. Why is it these days that everything gets blamed on "the homeless"? I think that stance is having a negative effect on business in west county....

I disagree -- it's a big INTERnational issue. Countries all over the world have the challenge of providing for their population as a whole. As a country, we've been lucky to avoid the situation of...

Commonly referred to as "getting the runaround".

Some services are probably available, sometimes, to some people. Same goes for access, sometimes for some people.

= deaf ears, = denial of...

RE:
It seems to me that kind of attitude and way of thinking without different, more compassionate way of thinking it would eventually put us further down the slippery slope towards the eventual...

Does everyone remember, not so many years ago, when people without money who had mental/emotional illnesses had homes/hospitals to live in? Like in Sonoma, with staff who did therapy and cared for...

You have valid points, but I'd avoid the phrase 'government control'. And of course it's not a 'desirable thing' to encourage homeless to move to here, or for that matter to any centralized area....

There are also a good number of people who live in and own homes who are alcoholics, druggies, mentally ill, thieves, and criminals. Many of us live next door to them. How many of us really know...

related -- I was just reading the comments on a WaPo article about the new proposed budget. There was an interesting exchange. The OP on it described a childhood of poverty and overworked parents,...

Yea! Protect our wildlife. It is very unusual for mountain lions to attack people, unless they are acting like prey, by running, or the lion is protecting its youth from we predator humans. Many more...

38710With the recent weather I remember an event several years ago that left residents near the river in a turmoil.
I would like to help.
I am a retired RN.
I have a truck, and if you find...

I'm relatively new (three years) to the Bloomfield/Baker Lane neighborhood and acutely aware of the impact our increased human population and our agricultural fences are having on our wildlife,...

This stunning short film explains why more than 300 Native American tribes, the largest gathering in human history, have joined together to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.

In the film, Native...

Maybe you've been following the TH group who lobbied the ICC last week. The following is from Andrew who leads the charge. Please click on the link below to see how each one of us can make this...

Whole foods is a Texas corporation who takes our money out of our community and sends it to George W's home state. Please support our local markets, such as Andy's Produce, Community Market, Pacific...

Wow Tommy...that is just GREAT NEWS! I am so excited...

Proud to be part of this effort in encouraging "Junior Second Dwelling Units". Please e-mail the Supervisors and try to attend this board...

How about we stop banning things, and instead hire a waste management company actually interested in doing it's job?

I hear this often ... get out, get out, get out ! ...

Well, many of our residents can't get out ... many of our residents are elderly and starting all over somewhere else is not an option ......

Having just published a biography of Jasper O'Farrell, a friend suggested the Sebastopol City Council should enact a Jasper O'Farrell Day to recognize one of West County's original ranchers. In the...

"Besides the easily confirmable ingredient dangers and their suspicious agendas, there's snowballing massive profit but that's not the primary intent. The many faceted agendas of biological...

The first Friday of June is Hug an Atheist Day. Don't forget to hug your friendly neighborhood atheist! :hugs:

Thank you so much beth your legos idea was really great and all went great.! :)