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Why Bidirectional Charging is the Most Exciting Climate Bill of 2023 Berkeley Senator Nancy Skinner's SB 233 would mandate capability for new electric vehicles sold in California after 2027

Posted by Tim Ryan - April 21, 2023

SB 233, a California Senate bill that would mandate bidirectional charging capabilities in most electric…

PG&E Bends to Grassroots Pressure Campaign to Bury Fire-Causing Power Lines Instead of plan to replace 50 miles a year, utility commits to burying 10,000 miles of overhead lines

Posted by Lili Ma - July 26, 2021

PG&E’s sudden July 21 announcement to initiate what it called a Marshall Plan level effort…

Five Lessons InformYourVote.org Learned to Become NYC’s Most Viewed Voter Literacy Resource Social media doesn’t have to undermine democracy. It can help to strengthen it.

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - June 25, 2021

By disrupting a winner-take-all electoral system, ranked choice voting is an important step toward strengthening…

Burying 500 miles of Overhead Lines Would End the Plague of Power Shutdowns: Why Won’t California Do It? Sign petition to spend just 2% of budget surplus & challenge the Big Fire Prevention Lie that we can't afford it!

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - June 6, 2021

Sign petition to spend just 2% of budget surplus & challenge the Big Fire Prevention…

ENDORSEMENT: Vote Yes on Prop 15 to End Obscene Tax Breaks for Real Estate Billionaires Developer-owned Press Democrat shamelessly opposes most important budget-boosting ballot measure of all time

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - October 16, 2020

Proposition 15, to finally tax commercial real estate in California the way every other state…

Future of Democracy Video Debate Platform Debuts in Georgia and Indiana for Pandemic Era Elections Easy to access and share minute long videos of every candidate answering every debate question may be best solution ever for getting money out of politics

Posted by Tim Ryan - May 29, 2020

The coronavirus struck during the beginning of the primary election season and political debates were…

The Panic Virus and How to Cure It

Posted by Eliot Fiks - April 1, 2020

All viruses have things in common. They prey on those with the weakest immune systems.…

Investigative Series on Palm Drive Hospital Wins Top SF Area Journalism Awards Independent truth telling challenged deceptive political narrative

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - January 1, 2019

(this article first appeared on April 16, 2016) Last weekend, the SF Peninsula Press Club…

How to Create 25,000 Attainably Priced Housing Units in Our County Without Public Funding The Sonoma Independent Solution calls for rezoning 1% of the County to allow 15,000 rentals for under $900 and 10,000 homes costing under $200,000

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - May 10, 2016

For tens of thousands of citizens of Sonoma County being evicted from their homes or…

The Kind of County We Don’t Want The problem wasn’t that THEY came, but rather that WE were essentially evicted

Posted by Lynda McDaniel - May 9, 2016

It used to be such a nice place to live—a working-class town in the mountains…

Sonoma West Medical Center Opens to Patients & Praise Smooth sailing first week; ER traffic already tops Palm Drive's

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - October 30, 2015

Just one week after the October 30 ribbon cutting ceremony in which the Sonoma West Medical…

Think Globally: Act Internally A call for body-wisdom in communication & conflict

Posted by Jerry A. Green - September 17, 2015

Senator Bernie Sanders says that “we are the change we’ve been looking for. “ He stresses…

The Sonoma Independent’s Interim Financing Plan to Restore Library Hours Most Supervisors say they will support a solution that cities co-fund. This plan makes it happen.

Posted by Jonathan Greenberg - July 20, 2015

Sonoma County Libraries have been closed Mondays for more than four years, and there is…

Epic Earth Day Eco-Fail On Electric Vehicles Most Sonoma County Cities Fail to Walk the Talk in Greening City Fleets

Posted by Ben Boyce - September 1, 2016

First published for the initial launch of the Sonoma Independent April, 2015 Sonoma County has…