Help Support Important Local Reporting, Subscribe Today http://theava.com/ by Will Parrish on Apr 27th, 2011 Across recent years, a State of California agency called the the North Coast Railroad Authority (NCRA) has been plodding ahead in its campaign to make freight chug-a-chug down the tracks from the Port of Eureka on down to the San Francisco … Read more
On April 21, 2011 over fifty Round Valley residents made the trek down to Ukiah to appear at 9am to speak before the Planning Commission against the Planning Department Staff recommendation that the Grist Creek Open Pit Mining Project proceed without an EIR (Environmental Impact Report). They patiently waited for over two hours to be … Read more
By GAYE LeBARON FOR THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Published: Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 3:00 a.m. The rail line through the Eel River Canyon hasn’t carried a train for 13 years. “Oh, we’ll all go out to meet her when she comes…We’ll be shoutin’ ‘Hallelujah!’ when she comes.” Or, perhaps, the variation on the old campfire … Read more
Grassroots Advocates Created Momentum in Packed Hearings by Dan Bacher Tuesday, April 26 was a great day for the future of safe drinking water in California, where many rural and urban communities lack drinkable water. Safe water advocates from across the state hailed the passage of AB685, the Human Right to Water bill, by an … Read more
Help Support Important Local Reporting, Subscribe Today http://theava.com/ by Will Parrish on Apr 17th, 2011 For most of the past 150 years, the California North Coast has had a clearly defined role in the state’s political economy. The region was blessed with vast, nearly impenetrable forests of huge redwood trees and accompanying great stands … Read more
By Bernard Meyers Guest op-ed column Posted: 03/24/2011 02:00:00 AM PDT TWO TRAINS share the tracks running through Marin to Humboldt Bay — one for commuter service (SMART) and one for freight (North Coast Railroad Authority). No trains have run for a decade, but freight trains could soon be if the last hurdles are cleared. NCRA’s … Read more
Help Support Important Local Reporting, Subscribe Today http://theava.com/ by Will Parrish on Mar 23rd, 2011 In the more than a third of a century since Douglas H. Bosco first carved himself out as a fixture of the California North Coast’s power structure, one of the surest guides to locating systemic corruption across the region’s dominant business … Read more
Stan died peacefully on March 16, 2011 at the age of 91. Stan continued to work out of the Berkeley TU office at least three days a week and served on numerous fishery and watershed advisory committees until only a few weeks before his death. Stan’s tireless work to protect, restore, and advocate for California’s coho salmon and … Read more
March 24, 2011 Exploiting the hardships caused by the economic climate and the state budget crisis, special interests are redoubling their efforts to pass legislation that would dismantle the Golden State’s premiere environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Developers and business groups are spinning California’s high rates of unemployment to claim an inherent conflict between job … Read more
Help Support Important Local Reporting, Subscribe Today http://theava.com/ From WILL PARRISH Laytonville If you want to mark a point-of-no-return in the Ander son Valley’s transformation into a full-on satellite of the Napa-Sonoma industrial viticulture complex, as good a choice as any is Duckhorn Vineyards’ takeover of three properties outside of Philo and Boonville in the late-’90s. Founded … Read more