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Here’s a roundup of recent headlines on vital subjects:
Here’s a roundup of recent headlines on vital subjects:
DEI & Housing Headlines
- Marin adds $2.4M to affordable housing fund
- Marin Voice: Move forward with educator housing at Oak Hill
- Marin supervisors allocate $500K to aid immigrants
- Editorial: DEI more than a ‘buzzword’ for Marin schools
- California Voice: Investing in Black communities will have ripple effects
- Marin City sports field eyed for rehabilitation
- Poll: North Bay ‘less supportive’ of transportation tax in region
- Buck Institute CEO says key federal funding at risk
- Marin City sports field eyed for rehabilitation
- Marin schools on alert after DEI memo imperils funding
- Editorial: Dense housing plan for Tiburon shows how times have changed
- Newsom signs duo of bills to defend immigrants and sue Trump
- Marin Voice: Our communities deserve more accessible housing
- Marin planners look to advance Highway 101 bus lane project
- Golden Gate bus and ferry systems gear up for Clipper discounts
- Mill Valley activist group counters ethnic studies critics
- Marin supervisors back waste rate hike amid tax objections
- Tiburon gets proposal for 120 apartments downtown
- Marin organizations gird for federal funding freeze amid Trump upheaval
- San Rafael’s latest housing prospect: High-rise with 180 apartments
- New California law prohibits using AI as basis to deny health insurance claims
- Marin County moves to implement short-term rental rules
- Berkeley is legalizing a type of housing that could add thousands of units to the market
- Marin Voice: Affordable housing is basic human right, economic imperative
- One of every five new homes built in California last year was an ADU
- Marin homeless population decreases nearly 3% in new count
- Upcoming state audit targets California’s housing mandates –Cities say state regulators are slow to review required housing plans, leading to potential penalties
Marin Voice: County needs strategy to stop older-adult homelessness
- California housing developers win first ‘builders remedy’ battles in fight to bypass local zoning
- A developer proposing a four-story, 117-apartment residential care center in Strawberry has taken another step forward in the process to launch his project.
- Libraries are a good place to narrow Marin’s digital divide
- Marin zoning changes could significantly increase housing density
- Bill From Damon Connolly would boost housing-focused community land trusts
- San Quentin’s $240M Revamp to Focus on Rehabilitation, End Death Row in California
- If done correctly, all can save on utility bills by creating income-based charges
- SF Yimby: Affordable Housing Approved For One Hamilton Drive
- Newsom OK’d a minimum wage increase for health care workers. Now he wants to delay it
- Marin property owners to get ADU planning aid
- Has Alameda’s new deal hacked the opposition to Bay Area housing construction?=
- Editorial: In order for Marin to see how well they work, ADU hurdles must be cleared
- Helping San Quentin inmates get an education – and a future
- Mill Valley developer seeks ‘builder’s remedy’ project in Fairfax
- Marin jurisdictions might alter inclusionary zoning housing policies
- Marin’s mandated housing: Much planned, little ‘affordable’ Marin cities risk ‘builder’s remedy’ over housing plan delays
- California Voice: The next phase of housing reforms is climate-safe ownership
COVID-19 & Impacts
- Marin health leaders say COVID-19 helped fortify system
- Marin loosens COVID-19 quarantine restrictions
- Marin health officials report spread of JN.1 coronavirus variant
- Dick Spotswood: Marin should be removed from Bay Area transportation tax proposal
- Napa, Marin, Sonoma counties retain pandemic-era ‘parklets’ as permanent fixtures
- Spotswood: San Francisco commute numbers aren’t bouncing back so far
- San Rafael advances new outdoor dining regulations
- Spotswood: With some adjustments, dining parklets should be permanent
- San Rafael approves outdoor dining program
- Tiburon businesses seek downtown modifications
- Novato looks to allow more downtown parklets
- Tiburon takes deeper look at downtown street closure program
- IJ Columnist: Future Should Be About People, Not Cars
- Dick Spotswood: Voters just gave everyone at MMWD a clear message
- Fairfax approves fees for parklet program
- Vicki Larson: We are living in the worst-case scenario
- Marin reckons with state law removing racial covenants
- Larkspur council to consider design standards for parklets
- How San Francisco North Bay restaurants are tackling inflation pressures
- Sausalito extends Caledonia Street outdoor dining program
Wildfires, Health & Climate Change
- Editorial: Pipeline is best step toward MMWD goal right now
- Marin Voice: MMWD board VP shares plan for resiliency
- Study: Marin’s sinking areas exacerbate sea-rise threat
- Marin fire officials assess new state hazard maps
- Marin Municipal Water District reports progress on capital improvements
- Trump administration threatens $4 billion in funding for California high-speed rail
- Newsom’s executive order mandating 5-foot clearance around homes: What does it mean?
- Dick Spotswood: Marin can do more to prepare for its next disaster
- Huffman skeptical as House approves wildfire bill
- ‘What are we paying for?’ California FAIR Plan complaints from people whose homes have burned
- Marin water officials assess preparedness amid LA fire crisis
- Marin water managers favor pipeline over reservoir expansion
- PG&E landed record-setting loan guarantee as Biden exited White House – Oakland-based PG&E said customers could save up to $1 billion as a result.
- North Bay coder offers tool for tracking California wildfires
- Marin health department underscores equity in new 3-year plan
- State Farm’s finances were a worry even before L.A. fires. Here’s what we know about its ability to pay claims going forward
- Dick Spotswood: LA wildfires a frightening reminder for Marin to prepare
- Marin disaster planners see LA fires as warning
- Point Reyes ranchers, National Park Service, environmentalists reach agreement on disputed land
- Court rules California Coastal Commission can limit construction of seawalls for thousands of property owners
- Marin agency approves 25-year countywide transportation plan
- PG&E electricity bills are rising far faster than other utility titans: official report
- How Democrats are making a billion-dollar push to decarbonize California’s ports amid Trump’s return
- Bay Area inflation eases up — but electricity and gas utility costs soar
- Governor hopes order curbs soaring bills from PG&E, other utilities – PG&E bills are rising three times as fast as Bay Area inflation rate
- Marin Voice: It’s time for California to go all-in on fully electric vehicles
- Mill Valley tax program faces rising fire-prevention costs
- Marin City to receive up to $10M in federal flood aid
- Newsom lifts drought declaration for Marin, 18 other counties
- Response to Marin sea levels ‘too little, too late’, grand jury says
- MMWD digests ‘breathtaking’ costs of water pipeline options
- Plan aims to protect California coast against rising ocean — and doesn’t require sea walls
- Dick Spotswood: Recently active MMWD needs to keep pushing projects
- PG&E strives to slow pace of increases in electric and gas bills: company CEO
- MMWD takes step toward expanded bike access trial
- Biden administration allots $20M for Highway 37 project
- Marin water district partners with firefighters for land management
- Connolly bill proposes boost in residential solar incentives
- Marin sea-level defense costs estimated at $17B
- Dick Spotswood: Bay Area needs large-scale solutions to sea level rise
- Photos from the king tides show what permanent sea level rise could look like in San Francisco Bay Area by 2050
- Marin Voice: Focus on climate solutions Marin can implement in the next 5 years