Posts by jim@millvalley.org
Marin IJ: Projects Secure Nearly $24M in State Budget Earmarks
Eight Marin projects will share $23.75 million in state earmarks in the final state budget. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 113, a budget trailer bill containing the earmarks, on Sept. 19. The earmarks that make the final budget are hammered out behind closed doors with the governor, the Senate president pro tempore and the…
Read MoreWhat California’s New Laws Mean for Your Bills, Job and Family
From electricity costs and housing to immigration enforcement and AI, California’s latest laws will reach into daily life across the Bay Area California’s newest laws could change how your utility spends your money, whether an employer can rely on AI to fire you and what your children encounter on social media. Gov. Gavin Newsom finished reviewing bills from…
Read MoreMarin Voice: We Can No Longer Afford to Find Reasons to Delay Housing
For more than a decade, a 127-acre hilltop former seminary campus in the Strawberry area near Mill Valley has been the star of an ongoing redevelopment fight. In 2015, the land was proposed as a new campus for The Branson School, where I am a student in my senior year. After two years of review,…
Read MoreThe Latest Batch of Employee Parking Permits Are Now Available! Stickers Span October 1st to March 31st
The Mill Valley Chamber issues Employee Parking Permits in partnership with the City of Mill Valley. Business and organization leaders and their employees can avoid getting tickets, moving their cars, or feeding their meters by parking in one of more than 110 designated employee parking spaces downtown and on Miller Avenue. Permit Requirements Must…
Read MoreMarinIJ: Dick Spotswood: Incivility Toward Elected Officials, Candidates a Problem in Marin
The tenor of public discourse in Marin has deteriorated. It’s cat calls at meetings and vile online postings. Until recently, the demeanor in what is a county of mostly well-educated people has been civil and often exemplary. Sadly, America may be reverting to an era when civic life was vicious and even dangerous. To get…
Read MoreMarin IJ: Marin County Allocates $3M for El Niño Preparations
Marin County supervisors will spend more than $3 million to fund El Niño readiness this winter. The weather pattern, which occurs when the surface water in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean warm more than usual, has increasingly signaled that Marin will experience excessive rain, atmospheric rivers, elevated flood risks and landslides. Gov. Gavin Newsom…
Read MoreMarin Emergency Preparedness Professionals Launch New Service to Make Household Preparedness Simpler
The Preparedness Advisory grew from first-hand experience helping Marin communities prepare — and a search for one practical resource that covered the whole household MARIN COUNTY, Calif. — After years working directly with Marin County communities on emergency preparedness and resilience, Elaine Wilkinson and Leah Curtis repeatedly encountered the same problem: people wanted to be better prepared, but…
Read MoreMarin Invites Community to Help Shape County Priorities for Next Six Years
Envision Marin will connect public input to county budgets, services, and long-term decisions Marin County, CA – The County of Marin is asking people who live, work, learn, or do business in Marin to help set the priorities that will guide county government over the next six years. The yearlong strategic planning effort, called Envision Marin, will produce Marin’s first comprehensive Countywide Strategic Plan in…
Read MoreMarinArts and Lark Theater to Present Special Film Screenings and Panel Discussion Featuring Voices from San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and Cedars
MarinArts and Lark Theater to Present Special Film Screenings and Panel Discussion Featuring Voices from San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and Cedars Event brings together storytelling from incarcerated filmmakers and Marin artists with developmental disabilities for an evening of screenings, panel discussion, and community conversation. LARKSPUR, Calif. — MarinArts and Lark Theater will present a special evening…
Read MoreThe Art of Belonging – Mill Valley Film Screening!
The Art of Belonging Film Screening: Reception, Film, and Q&A. Wednesday, November 4th, 2026. Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA., 94941. Hosted by the City of Mill Valley with It Takes a Village, Dedication to Special Education and PAASS.
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