While I think this is a bit of political drama... the US Postal Service said this week they may have to shut down in June after getting no aid in the $2.2 trillion stimulus while seeing massive...

Once you venture out and get some groceries, here are some good tips for how to ensure they enter your home virus-free:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjDuwc9KBps

Here's an encampment in Oakland that seems to be working for everyone:

Good News Network: Oakland Residents Transform Abandoned Lot into Sanctuary for Camping Homeless Women

"We can't do something that works because we don't want it to be too attractive and bring in more people."

It was said before to other purpose but its as true now for this

"It takes a village"...

That Courthouse Square nightmare took longer and cost more than projected. I went to three meetings about it (open to the public only after word had leaked out that they were planning this)....

-also the unpopular, ugly, expensive mess made of Courthouse Square, which has made driving in downtown Santa Rosa more arduous.

I'm not really sure what to make of this. A "climate emergency" should have been declared decades ago. And I have less then zero faith in our county (or state) to do anything productive that does not...

Here are some Roundup articles - the twitter link from Bruno Navarro posted them together:

https://twitter.com/Bruno_J_Navarro/status/1136781300759748613
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the incident is uncomfortable for me as well. i'd like to offer a different perspective. some people see birds nesting in buildings/eves in the same category of wasps and gophers. (it took us...

Perhaps a sign along the road where you see ‘burnt’ grass in April;
”We use Herbicides in our vineyards, Enjoy our wine!”

Totally insane when there are so many gas stations within a short distance including car wash.

This is another out of area strip mall developer from LA and Idaho. This will force out local...

16 pump ARCO Gas station planned for StonyPT and Hwy 116

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2019-04-06_13-03-19.pngA 16-pump ARCO gas station (including 4 diesel pumps), with a...

I beg to differ... w your stm "The most fierce opposition will come from strangers who oppose cannabis everywhere out of doors, The are ignorant and determined which is a dangerous combination....

A great new study just came out from Europe on the varying reports on glyphosate. It was scientific and they looked at the reports and came up with biased pro Monsanto folks from industry supported...

PD article on Sonoma County Conservation Action event, quotes from Native American Greg Sarris, other details on poisonous glyphosate found in vineyards.

SCCA's event yesterday was well attended...

NCAP out of Eugene is ALWAYS a good place to begin research on pesticides:
https://www.pesticide.org/

Monsanto has been trying to muddy the waters for decades on this. California does have label warning as there are scientific studies now showing a strong correlation to all forms of cancer,...

I think most of us don't want the character of West County to be whipsawed by whatever the big money is in. We are fed up to our eyeballs with wine and all its bullshit. And we can see that, unless...

I reached out to Dan Smith for his comments about this:

From Dan Smith:
There are a few issues here:

1) The building is not well designed for mental health patients and would be very expensive...

Following is my letter to the editor in this week's Sonoma West, which they titled "Trees/not cellphones:

EDITOR:

I appreciate your informative front-page article “Watch Those Crosswalks” in...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2018-08-24_14-55-44.png

The Future of Sonoma Developmental Center

The Sonoma Developmental Center is a unique community asset: protect a...

the company that produced that first tests on round up CHEATED on the tests(I think it was Dow or Du Pont) when apprehended ,they paid a million dollar fine and kept right on making the crap without...

Gentrification dooms a Neighborhood
by John Omaha


What I will miss most is the children. Babies in carriers, ten year old girls coming from soccer games with their “besties,” boys in baseball...

I would like to see the 'Sustainable' Tourism & Wine Businesses pay for more low-income housing for their workers, which place great pressure on less expensive housing for senior other citizens. Big...

Thanks everyone for your perspectives. My hope is that the majority of Sonoma County residents will know better than to vote for this 300 million dollar bond measure. I may be wrong. I have before....

If you would like to see another 30,000 homes/units/apartments built it DOES NOT follow that you need to support approving a 300 million dollar bond.

If you read the Press Democrat story on this...

I honestly don't think anyone really cares about what I have to say about this hotel, or any development in town. Each new tourist trap means another reason for me to avoid town entirely. And I live...

I disagree. Boston's downtown core thrived when they stopped cars from coming there. We are two-footeds and it is healthy for us to walk. I have never seen the large CVS parking lot, open to all,...

I have reported the following dangerous traffic conditions around the new CVS store to Caltrans and Sebastopol City officials:

1) Despite a "Trucks No Right Turn" sign on NB 116 prior to...

https://www.WaccoBB.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2017-01-17_16-00-25.pngThe new CVS store in downtown Sebastopol is scheduled to open this Sunday.

Will you shop there or boycott it? Will you...

https://youtu.be/pabjqmYWGkM

Here's the thing. While it feels terrible to lose an election, we need to keep this in mind. It's just an election. The people who were assholes and jerks two days ago are still assholes and jerks...

This is my last post on wacky. Take me off.

5th district was bought by some very sleazy people, and nothing hopkins can say proclaiming innocence can change that. She was even photoed with our...

I'd like to send a hearty CONGRATS to Doug Bosco and Eric Koenigshofer for winning another term as 5th District Supervisor!

Does anyone know who is firing propane cannons in Sebastopol to scare off the birds from the wine grapes instead of covering? There's another complaint in the PD again today. Does the vineyard owners...

On Thomm Hartman this morning he spoke about a UCLA and Science Daily review of 74,000 CA wines on a blind tasting test from expert wine tasters. The result, eco wines were 4.1 points higher in...

The text of Trailer Bill 707 is here. "Trailer Bill Language is the implementing language of the California State Budget Bill." The Sierra Club of California put out an alert about this here, that...

Here’s President Obama’s Best and Deepest Argument Against His Critics on the Left
By Jonathan Chait
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The PD picked up this topic of CRV recycling centers closing recently and did an article on it here.

Excellent!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OemqVWi_R0k