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Curated News You Can Use, From Mill Valley & Beyond – Week of Jan. 5th
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Read More‘We Get it’: Democrats Aim to cut California’s cost of living in 2025 – Bay Area Democrats have new focus on affordability but few details as the legislative session begins
“We get it,” Democratic state Sen. Dave Cortese said. “The Democratic Party, has, in effect, just been called out by the voters on that issue.” The state’s Democrats say they’ll focus this year on making California more affordable, and party leaders are increasingly railing on the high costs of staples such as groceries and home electricity bills.
Read MoreMill Valley Flowers’ Customers & Friends From Far & Wide Share the Passing of Annabella Margarita Eriksson, Husband to Lars Eriksson, Who Ran Mill Valley Flowers Together for Many Years
We invite all who loved her to visit once the stone is completed, and in her memory, she requested that you continue to bring beauty and love into your lives by filling your homes and special occasions with flowers. Mill Valley Flowers, the small shop she cherished, will continue to carry on her legacy through her daughter, son-in-law, grandchildren, and her team of devoted designers, who have been with us for over a decade.
Read MoreSFGate Via California Association of Realtors’ Chief Economist: Bay Area Housing Market in 2025 Sees Sales Rising by Roughly 10% – But Buyers May Gain More Leverage
“Although price growth has slowed since rates have returned to historic norms and inventory has increased this year, supply remains tight, and affordability has deteriorated, so a full recovery to pre-pandemic levels is still a few years out, even though sales are expected to continue rising in the Bay Area during 2025,” Levine said.
Read MoreMarin IJ: California Housing Program’s Collateral Beneficiaries: Lobbyists, Lawmakers
“Those profiting from these transactions were unwilling to accept any meaningful accountability requirements, including that rents be discounted meaningfully from general market rents,” said Mark Stivers, director of advocacy for the California Housing Partnership, one of the program’s critics. “Greater accountability to the public is still very much needed.”
Read MoreSF Chronicle: Here are 21 New Laws that Californians Must Start Following in 2025, While New Laws are set to change the workplace, including a ban on these types of meetings
“For the past six years, through boom, bust and pandemic, California’s Legislature has ended each session with a blitz of new laws that aim to make housing more plentiful and affordable.
Read MoreWhile City Officials Determined in 2023 That City Hall Could Not Be a Feasible Location for the Massive No. 9 Locomotive, SF Chron Provides a Great Reminder of the Amazing Gravity Car Barn Atop Mt. Tam
The arrival of the 2025 New Year provides a great reminder that the Gravity Car Barn, which opened on May 3, 2009, remains an incredible resource for train lovers and many more, in honor of the Mill Valley and Mt. Tamalpais Scenic Railway. It has become a permanent home for the brilliantly recreated Gravity Car and an interpretive display highlighting this special time in California and Mt. Tamalpais history. The Barn has been constructed over a section of the 98 feet of standard gauge track at the historic rail siding on East Peak and will serve as an educational facility and visitor center for Marin and beyond.
Read MoreCurated News You Can Use, From Mill Valley & Beyond – Week of Dec. 29
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Read MoreMarin IJ: A California Insurance Crisis and Which Bay Area Communities Have Lost the Most Coverage, Including Significant Impact on Mill Valley
California’s property insurance market has been reeling after a series of devastating and costly wildfires over the last decade, with estimated losses of more than $35.8 billion. Insurers have argued that outdated voter-approved regulations enacted in the late 1980s aimed at ensuring fairer rates have left them unable to charge enough to reflect rising costs…
Read MoreHomestead Valley’s Relentless Gem Tim Ryan, a Milley Award Winner, Has Led a Legion of Amazing Volunteers to Create Beautiful, Compelling Art With HARK
Ryan, with a legion of dedicated volunteers, as you will see in the video, has installed his HARK piece out front of of the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts at 616 Throckmorton Ave. for the holiday. He created this short video about it. “We have to listen to each other, if we are ever going to change,” Ryan says. ”I’d like to thank the 43 volunteers who helped make this Community Art piece.
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