While not my normal news source there was a good article in the Christian Science Monitor on the successes Houston has had in recent years dealing with the homeless crisis.

I would guess that a more or less equivalent percentage of the general population are users or abusers of drugs. Each social level has its own particular drugs; some come by way of doctor's...

Nico, Thank you for sharing your rational wisdom and experience. As always, you help us see things from a more compassionate place, in our consumeristic jugmental world. Keep talking; some of us...

The solutions exist and so do the funds.It is just a question of priorities, transparency.and forcing the hand to act. Proper attempts at actual viable solutions especially with large facilities that...

I remember there being some old army barracks out there off of Wright Rd.
The entire area closed off with barbed wire fence.....maybe there was once, or meant to be, a small airport there.
Also a...

Hi! They also have meetings at the trail. There’s one this Sunday at 11 am. A rep from the homeless action group will be there. Adrienne cannot make it that day but someone will be there and I will...

I also noted for two recent cold nights, smoke from campfires from under those tinder dry trees...

There is a large property along I believe, Ludwig road that has a chain-link fence around it. does anyone know who owns it? Someone told me once that the Feds were going to put an airport there or...

Good words, tommy

Yes the Homeless are human, and many of them went to college and once held decent jobs. That is a fact. "There but for fortune, go you, or I" - as the song said. I am a ...

to All about the Trail folks.

Please read and sign to support the bike coalition petition to create change for the better for All.
Juna

Dear Leadership Council:
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I've had a change of heart regarding the camps on the Joe Rodota Trail. I went to a Homeless Action! meeting on Monday. Homeless Action! is a coalition of homeless people, and their allies, that...

it's equally unrealistic for anyone to say that they just have to move, period. You can say "I don't like this situation" but it's pointless to propose a partial solution - "just move them". What's...

Sonoma Patients Co-op wrote:


sealwatcher wrote:

How about we look into the current status of what has become of all of the burned out lands throughout Northern California - all of the...

Kaiser currently participates with Medicare as a Medicare Advantage provider. My understanding is that Bernie's Medicare for All eliminates Medicare Advantage programs, but I'm having a hard time...

From Susan Collier Lamont's post on FB in response to the PD article

I'm not even sure you should bother with the article. Just read this from the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights (a...

The Times We’re Living In
Will Shonbrun


What I’d like to know is how to live in this time and place in our country? What to do or not do? How to be? What’s of value or not? What needs to...

Perhaps people who are tarred as "conspiracy theorists" should engage in a little "identity politics" and protest that they have become an oppressed minority?

Calling someone a “conspiracy...

snoop4truth wrote:


You are correct, Snoop; for once we can agree. This particular Institution is a "real enemy." The systemic functioning of this institution is the generator that ran up the...

True. But what is your solution? Tyranny of the minority? Which is what we already have now to some extent, isn't it, given the Electoral College system, which gives more vote power to...

Questions about Mike’s work to address climate change?
Come to Sonoma State University Student Center for a Climate Town Hall.

Get answers and share your opinions!

Tickets recommended!!
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a little context for you: http://www.art-bin.com/art/omodest.html -- he's not really advocating butchering humans.

Tommy is reflecting (with a little hyperbole, but not much) the descriptions we...

OKKK,
Yes I get it, just a bit much all at once, caught me at a bad time and a bit of overload with life.
All in good fun,
Thanks,
:))

It's satire, Ken, and a humorous release of anger and disgust! I sympathize that you can't appreciate the humor because it goes against your own points of view, but I am not so uptight liberal that...

This is a rollicking masterpiece of satire, Tommy Lee! Thank you!

It would be fun to have an outdoor showing in the Park one day...

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From your linked article:

"Our ruling

Wittman said "85 percent" of immigrants in the U.S. don’t show up for their court hearings.

The actual percentage is far lower. DOJ statistics show 28...

and of course they've done all they can to stack the deck against them. Not really a fair charge, it misses the real cruelty of the situation.

Fake news.
Most do show up for their court hearing

UPDATE: Great News: WE WON!

Dear Colleagues

After several hours of deliberation and testimony at today’s Coastal Commission hearing to determine...

Please watch this video and if you agree this is not the way to handle this problem, please send a comment via www.PoisonFreeSanctuary.org

https://vimeo.com/345119059

 Norma.   A new ethic...

Have you ever considered how humanity's past affects our present and what that means for our future? Would you like to?

The events are generally about half presentation, by the session host or a...

The "Jonathan Greenberg" reference in the below clip is the very same WaccoBB member Peacetown Jonathan who has contributed lots on WaccoBB over the years, including a ground breaking series of...

Ah, this reminds me of the old white-man saw: I was a radical in my youth but then I saw the light and am now conservative or perhaps an adherent of the Pelosian chill-pill. Let the revolution...

anything with such a high density of scare/conspiracy buzzwords is suspect. When you add to it a completely made-up definition, it's even sillier. 'global system' 'central.. control',...

In case you have missed this... this is a must see



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from your posts and others in this area (not just this specific topic, but any tech/science issue) I'm realizing that google searching can be a bad thing. People by nature form pretty strong opinions...

I have to admit to a bias on this issue: I agree almost all of the time with Podfish's balanced rationality.

Apart from that, I have only this to add: When I hear Agenda 21 invoked, I ask myself a...

The solution, Don't build on a flood plain!! The main "defect' was building there.

I really dislike those fake tree antenna towers. They look horrible and are dishonest. Antennas should look like antennas.

Why do you suppose “5G APOCALYPSE - THE EXTINCTION EVENT” is produced in...

Here is the United Nations WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION leading MD / scientific scholar on the health impacts of wifi and cell phone technologies. 50 seconds from his talk: ...

I'm the Sebastopol newbie, so I don't know what your history with CVS is. It sounds bad, but may I offer a little different perspective? please without getting pummeled.

My daughter and I moved...

How wonderful would that be!?! Talk about trading up! :waccosun:

I believe there’s a serious downside to the new, stricter laws on doctors prescribing opioids. A member of my family stopped drinking 25 years ago and greatly reduced her use of tobacco. After having...

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A KEY MOVE IN ESTABLISHING DICTATORSHIP HERE - THIS WOULD DEMAND ALL OF OUR BEING IN THE STREETS, TOTAL RISING UP! JUDE

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On Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now" program on KPFA, 94.1 this morning, she mentioned that today is the anniversary of the first Occupy event in New York. By the way, our Sebastopol Occupy tent was...

Be Prepared.

On Monday, September 10, and Wednesday, September 12, Sonoma County will TEST alert & warning systems. More information is below.

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I agree with both Kane and MikeH: I do want farmworkers to have housing, but I believe the businesses (namely, the Wine Industry) that profit from their low wages and poor working conditions don't...