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1 week ago | 
localnewsmatters.org | Ruth Dusseault
IN THE COMING WEEKS, Monterey County will be publishing a geo-located visualization map of all the verifiable data collected in and around the Vistra Moss Landing Battery facility since a massive Jan. 16 battery fire there resulted in environmental and public health concerns.
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1 week ago | 
localnewsmatters.org | Ruth Dusseault
DUE PROCESS UNDER THE LAW is not the same for everyone. That was the message delivered in a public webinar this week, where public defenders spoke in support of legislation that they say would help even the scales of justice. In the 1963 case Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that everyone has the right to a defense attorney and due process under the law, even if they have no way to pay for one.
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1 week ago | 
localnewsmatters.org | Ruth Dusseault
Shopping carts, an electric foot massager, a PlayStation, several outboard engines, and a floor lamp are among the many items found amid two tons of marine debris pulled last week from Richardson Bay in southern Marin County. “This is just the tip of the iceberg,” says Keith Merkel, principal ecologist leading the project with the Richardson Bay Regional Agency, a local government agency dedicated to maintaining and improving Richardson Bay.
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1 week ago | 
localnewsmatters.org | Ruth Dusseault
The Marin Shakespeare Company is among several Bay Area arts organizations to receive notice that their previously awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts have been terminated.
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1 week ago | 
piedmontexedra.com | Ruth Dusseault
IN THE TIME BEFORE CELLPHONE, local news outlets relied heavily on advertising for most of their income. In recent decades, much of that advertising has moved to platforms like Google and Facebook and so has local news content. The tech companies could repost local news for free, drawing eyes (and customers) away from local news websites. This week, two efforts to redirect those advertising profits back into local newsrooms are calling on the California Legislature to hear their proposals. Sept.
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1 week ago | 
localnewsmatters.org | Ruth Dusseault
Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, stood with local leaders at San Francisco’s City Hall on Monday to promote new legislation that would allow 25% of state funds for recovery housing to go to drug-free housing options. Assembly Bill 255 is Haney’s second attempt at changing recovery housing law, and it is a response to California’s Housing First policy adopted in 2016.
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1 week ago | 
localnewsmatters.org | Ruth Dusseault
IN THE TIME BEFORE CELLPHONE, local news outlets relied heavily on advertising for most of their income. In recent decades, much of that advertising has moved to platforms like Google and Facebook and so has local news content. The tech companies could repost local news for free, drawing eyes (and customers) away from local news websites. This week, two efforts to redirect those advertising profits back into local newsrooms are calling on the California Legislature to hear their proposals. Sept.
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2 weeks ago | 
piedmontexedra.com | Ruth Dusseault
While cargo ships from China sat idle in the Bay awaiting customs payments, state Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, stood with Chinatown’s business leaders Tuesday and called on President Donald Trump to end a brewing trade war. According to Haney, family-owned businesses, many run by immigrants, are being pushed to the brink by the Trump administration’s extreme 145% tariff on Chinese imports.
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2 weeks ago | 
localnewsmatters.org | Ruth Dusseault
While cargo ships from China sat idle in the Bay awaiting customs payments, state Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, stood with Chinatown’s business leaders Tuesday and called on President Donald Trump to end a brewing trade war. According to Haney, family-owned businesses, many run by immigrants, are being pushed to the brink by the Trump administration’s extreme 145% tariff on Chinese imports.
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2 weeks ago | 
smdailyjournal.com | Ruth Dusseault
While cargo ships from China sat idle in the Bay awaiting customs payments, state Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, stood with Chinatown’s business leaders Tuesday and called on President Donald Trump to end a brewing trade war. According to Haney, family-owned businesses, many run by immigrants, are being pushed to the brink by the Trump administration’s extreme 145% tariff on Chinese imports.
