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1 week ago | yubanet.com | Pascale Fusshoeller

NEVADA CITY, Calif. May 27, 2025 – Today’s Nevada County Board of Supervisors’ agenda contained a Proclamation proclaiming the month of June as Nevada County Pride Month. District 2 Supervisor Robb Tucker pulled the item from consent and said this resolution specifically shouldn’t be on the consent portion of the agenda. “I just don’t know if these symbolic resolutions that are somewhat controversial is what we should be doing here at the county.” He abstained on the vote that passed 4-0.

1 week ago | yubanet.com | Tom Durkin

NEVADA CITY – Are you homeless or formerly homeless? If so, you know what it looks like from the bottom up because everybody was looking down on you – maybe even including yourself. You have stories, real-life experiences – the quiet desperation of having no place to go to the bathroom; resentment at being woken up at 3 a.m. in the morning with a policeman’s flashlight in your face; the gnawing hunger of waiting for that free lunch on Thursday.

2 weeks ago | yubanet.com | Tom Durkin

Be careful of what you wish for. … You might get it. If I knew how hard it would be to get an alternative housing ordinance passed in Nevada County, I might never have tried. Six years and several months ago, I naively argued to the Nevada County Board of Supervisors that it should be legal to live in trailers and RVs because there is no other housing that homeless and low-income people can find or afford. I know. I’m one of them. My impeccably reasoned argument went nowhere.

2 weeks ago | yubanet.com | Brett Wilkins

Israeli occupation forces fired what they called “warning shots” at a large delegation of international diplomats visiting the besieged Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on Wednesday, an incident many critics said was an attempt to intimidate countries that just two days earlier issued an ultimatum to stop annihilating Gaza and others that have joined a genocide case against Israel.

1 month ago | yubanet.com | John Tures

April 7, 2025 – As we currently find ourselves led by our national leaders into a full-blown trade war, the worst in decades, it is important to look at the last massive trade war we were in, and how it nearly destroyed America, triggering The Great Depression and World War II. The story starts before President Herbert Hoover took office in 1929.