Sabrina Adler

Oct 30, 2024 | lookout.co | Lookout Santa Cruz |Max Chun |John Maa |Sabrina Adler

The Santa Cruz County Parks Department is planning a “collaborative initiative” to restore and maintain Freedom Lake in Watsonville that will remove invasive and overgrown non-native vegetation that has limited access to the lake’s shore.

Oct 30, 2024 | lookout.co | Lookout Santa Cruz |Max Chun |John Maa |Sabrina Adler

A new guide to the Redwood Loop Trail at Big Basin Redwoods State Park has been published. Written by a team of biologists and environmental scientists, it addresses the effects of the catastrophic 2020 fire on the park and the long-term changes to the landscape that it ushered in, including the impact on plants and animals in the park. Copies of the free trail guide can be downloaded at the Santa Cruz Mountains Bioregional Council’s website, www.scmbc.org.

Oct 30, 2024 | lookout.co | Lookout Santa Cruz |Max Chun |John Maa |Sabrina Adler

Soon, customers at cannabis dispensaries might be able to purchase flower, walk over a few feet to an on-site lounge and spark up. The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday told cannabis division staff to draw up an ordinance allowing these kinds of on-site lounges. The supervisors are expected to take their first vote on the new rules on Dec. 10. If passed, a second vote would likely come sometime in January, with the lounges becoming legal 30 days later.

Oct 30, 2024 | lookout.co | John Maa |Sabrina Adler |Lookout Santa Cruz |Max Chun

Quick Take Dr. John Maa, chair of the California Advocacy Committee of the American Heart Association, and Sabrina Adler of nonpartisan nonprofit ChangeLab Solutions write that voters deserve to know the facts about what the beverage industry is doing to thwart the democratic process in relation to local taxes on sugary drink distributors – as Santa Cruz's Measure Z seeks to implement. Have something to say?

May 23, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Sabrina Adler |Ross C Brownson |Scott Burris |Paul Erwin |Peter Jacobson |Wendy E. Parmet | +1 more

During and immediately following the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of bills were introduced in state houses limiting the legal powers of public health officials. While most of these bills did not become law, at least 25 states enacted legislation curbing the legal authority of public health officials. Many judicial decisions also pushed back against broad interpretations of public health officials’ legal powers.