Gov. Newsom Slashes $11.5 Million for Performing Arts Fund, Devastating Bay Area Organizations

Cuts to public arts funding are now a one-two punch. On Wednesday, May 14, Gov. Gavin Newsom released a budget proposal eliminating the $11.5 million allocated to the state’s small nonprofits arts organizations through the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, or...
Bay Area Reporter: After Spahr Center’s Closure & With a Major Pride Event Set for June 7th in Mill Valley, The Marin LGBTQ+ Center Is Leasing Space from the Marin Multi-Cultural Center at 709 Fifth Ave.

Bay Area Reporter: After Spahr Center’s Closure & With a Major Pride Event Set for June 7th in Mill Valley, The Marin LGBTQ+ Center Is Leasing Space from the Marin Multi-Cultural Center at 709 Fifth Ave.

Community leaders gathered in downtown San Rafael recently to celebrate that Marin County again has an LGBTQ center. The new facility, which is currently being run entirely by volunteers, comes following last year’s closure of the Spahr Center after it ran out of...
Connie Leyva and Steven Glazer: Meta & Google Garnered Tens of Billions of Dollars in Q1. Should Tech Pay Their Share to Mitigate the Impact of their Products? Tax Big Tech to Mitigate Harm on Kids

Connie Leyva and Steven Glazer: Meta & Google Garnered Tens of Billions of Dollars in Q1. Should Tech Pay Their Share to Mitigate the Impact of their Products? Tax Big Tech to Mitigate Harm on Kids

California’s state budget outlook is once again grim. On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed that the state faces a $12 billion shortfall, thanks in part to President Donald Trump’s trade wars and the deadly wildfires in Los Angeles County. Lawmakers now face...
Marin IJ Earns Statewide Awards For News Coverage, Photos, Opinion Section & Much More!

Marin IJ Earns Statewide Awards For News Coverage, Photos, Opinion Section & Much More!

The Marin Independent Journal has been a beacon of top-notch journalism for decades, and this year has been no different. The organization earned 20 awards — including five first-place honors — in an annual statewide journalism contest. The California News Publishers...
SFist: Noe Valley Jokesters Want to Secede from SF and Join Marin County Instead

SFist: Noe Valley Jokesters Want to Secede from SF and Join Marin County Instead

A Change.org petition is floating the idea of Noe Valley seceding from San Francisco and instead incorporating into Marin County, though this petition does not do much to explain the motivation here, and obviously this makes very little geographic sense. SF...