North Bay Report Podcast
Why is a 27 foot tall replica of a wooden chair standing next to a roadside coffee shop south of Sebastopol? It’s hard to miss The Big Chair, a large, whimsical piece of public art alongside Highway 116 south of Sebastopol. But it has some serious intentions behind it. See pictures of the Big Chair, …
Continue reading “The Backstory on the Big Chair – February 13, 2017”
Government tracking of our daily phone and computer use is sophisticated and real. And we’re helping to enable it. It’s true: Big Brother IS watching us. And listening, and reading our emails and more, while we are making it easier for our data to be captured and sold. Bill Blunden spoke about cyber spying and …
Continue reading “The Illusion of Cyber-Security – February 10, 2017”
The salmon fishery off the Sonoma Coast will be getting an extra boost from imported hatchery fish—but not right away. Bodega Bay’s beleaguered salmon fishery will get a boost from the release of thousands of smolts there this spring. But the fishermen will have to wait another two years for the fish to grow, mature …
Continue reading “Salmon Release Planned for Bodega Bay – February 9, 2017”
The Santa Rosa City Council is giving more protections to its undocumented immigrants. The city of Santa Rosa is joining the ranks of cities across the nation that are broadening civil rights for immigrants…but don’t call it a sanctuary city. KRCB’s Tiffany Camhi reports the Santa Rosa City Council adopted a resolution last night declaring …
Continue reading “Santa Rosa Extends Immigrant Protections – February 8, 2017”
From company town to progressive beacon, Richmond has undergone a dramatic political rebirth in the 21st century. In the past 5 years, one bay area city has placed a soda tax measure before its voters, passed a strong rent control measure, and rejected a big-money city council campaign from its biggest employer. And no, it …
Continue reading “The Political Remaking of Richmond – February 7, 2017”
Who better to guide troubled young adults to seek mental health services than their peers? Some of the young people who most need mental health services have been conditioned to avoid them. A new youth-led initiative hopes to use peer outreach to overcome that. Hear more about this new program on the North Bay Report …
Continue reading “Youth-Led Outreach to Expand Access to Mental Health Services – February 6, 2017”
Calculating the costs of greenhouse gases could become part of the budgeting for big new public works projects in California. California’s major public institutions would be required to weigh Greenhouse gas Emissions into their budget analyses when purchasing materials for large infrastructure projects, under a proposed new bill unveiled this week. Hear more about the …
Continue reading “Green Yardstick Proposed for State Infrastructure Purchasing – February 3, 2017”
The native oysters of San Francisco Bay can help mitigate the effects of climate change, if we first help them repopulate their habitat. Once prolific in San Francisco Bay, but now scarce, Olympia oysters are getting some human help in building new reefs—and helping their benefactors, too. See pictures of the reef balls and find …
Continue reading “Aiding a Comeback for SF Bay’s Native Oysters – February 2, 2017”
Having heard a prescription for making homeless services more effective, local providers must now make some hard changes to act on it. A call to radically rethink how homeless services are structured and provided locally found a generally receptive audience in Santa Rosa this week. Now the challenge is to implement those ideas. We’ve got …
Continue reading “Adopting a New Model for Reducing Homelessness – February 1, 2017”