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As coronavirus raged, Sonoma County did little to enforce rules on weddings with as many as 100 people

“Officials in Sonoma County, which has ranked worst in the Bay Area for the prevalence of coronavirus cases for most of the year, have taken no enforcement action on complaints that at least 15 large wedding gatherings violated coronavirus restrictions……..“Workers being forced to be in dangerous workplace situations has been the story of the county …

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Your Health: Is the end near for chrysotile asbestos?

“Before TSCA was revised, the EPA spent more than a decade trying to ban existing uses of asbestos. The bar was too high, though, and despite mounds of evidence showing the dangers of the substance, the EPA was unable to justify banning it.” Trump’s team ignored EPA scientists in green-lighting new uses of asbestos Is …

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ACTION ALERT: Our Watershed/Oak Woodlands at great risk for more wine grapes

Special interests rule: “The inaction of the Board has basically been a signal to the large landowners–cut now in case some changes might be coming next year.  This the county leaders have done wittingly or unwittingly while failing to institute a temporary time out on tree removal proposals.  The message delivered is, “bull doze what …

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ACCOUNTABLE USA: Corruption Newsletter on covid

ACCOUNTABLE USA: Covid funds To understand just how insufficient the new stimulus bill is, consider the latest devastating jobs report from December. Following a deeply disappointing November report, this month’s numbers revealed that more than 1.5 million Americans filed for unemployment in just the past two weeks. Millions more Americans have been unemployed for months, and …

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VESCO: Wine Industry tries to consolidate power with pro industry supervisors

Note: Only marginal lands are left to fill with water thirsty and pesticide ridden vineyards. Poor land use decision making has left us with dwindling water  supplies during a megadrought and dried up landscapes  that are fire prone. “The time to protect our watersheds, the climate, and our woodlands from highly destructive and speculative industry …

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The Hill: Republicans ready to become deficit hawks again under a President Biden

The 2017 Tax Cuts Didn’t Work, The Data Prove It https://www.forbes.com/sites/christianweller/2019/05/30/the-2017-tax-cuts-didnt-work-the-data-prove-it/ May 30, 2019A new report confirms what the data already showed: The 2017 tax cuts for the richest Americans and corporations did not work as promised. Workers did not see higher wages, but instead the federal … Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts Helped Super-rich Pay Lower Rate … https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tax-cuts-jobs-act-wealth-economists-inequality-1464048 The Trump administration’s deficit-bloating package …

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