According to a notice on Saturday from the Union’s negotiating committee, a surprising 92.4% of all members (not just of voting members) of the County employees union SEIU 1021 have voted to authorize a strike…
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On Tuesdays the New York Times still runs a “Science” section in the print edition. It never attracts advertisers but Big Pharma supports it with online ads. (The Times has more than 8 million online…
We continue our conversation with John Hulbert, Pacific Bell retiree and lifelong Anderson Valley resident. Recently, my brother Scott, who is also a PacBell retiree, my mother Fran and I had the pleasure of meeting…
“Are you lonely tonight?” If you are a senior you probably are, according to Carla Perissinotto, a doctor and a professor of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. Perissinotto specializes in internal…
I want to let everyone know that the overwhelming number of positive responses to my recent series on “Crime and No Punishment” appears to be showing some results. I’ve called for the state of California…
The State Fair in Sacramento began on July 14th and will run through the 30th. As lovers of any fair we can find, we were excited to go despite the forecast of 107 degrees. Armed…
Item 4b) on next Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Agenda is described as “Discussion and Possible Action Including Direction to Staff to Develop a Contingency Plan for Creation of Department of Finance Based on Best Practice…