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Trump calls attempts to link him to Project 2025 ‘pure disinformation’
by Tara Suter
Former President Trump called attempts to link him to Project 2025 “pure disinformation” Thursday. “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have not seen it, have no idea who is in charge of it, and, unlike our very well received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Project 2025, which comes from conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, is a 900-page “governing agenda” describing conservative aims in the case that a Republican captures … Continue Reading
July 10, 2024
Local group unveils latest plans for Petaluma River Park
by Don Frances
In the latest step to a fully realized Petaluma River Park, the local group behind the effort has announced that new draft plans will be released Monday for public inspection and feedback. “Over the last six months we’ve done extensive, intensive, community engagement over what we want the park to be,” said Seair Lorentz, executive director of the Petaluma River Park Foundation, adding that the plans were developed with input from the public as well as park designers, landscape architects, … Continue Reading
June 30, 2024
Trump 2.0 plan a ‘doomsday scenario’ for California
by Raheem Hosseini
Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, wants the American public to be alarmed as he is. In March, the North Bay representative was in a Congressional Progressive Caucus briefing requested by several liberal organizations raising an alarm about Project 2025, the 920-page action plan for a second Donald Trump term. Prepared by the Heritage Foundation and a multitude of conservative organizations, the 2025 Presidential Transition Project calls for swift, sweeping action from the next Republican … Continue Reading
June 28, 2024
Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorization back on the docket
by Chris Chase
A bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives has re-introduced a bill in the latest bid to reauthorize the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA). U.S. representatives Jared Huffman (D-California), who is the ranking member of the U.S. Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries, along with Ed Case (D-Hawaii), Mary Peltola (D-Alaska), and U.S. Delegate James Moylan (R-Guam), reintroduced the “Sustaining America’s Fisheries for the Future Act” in a bid to renew the MSA - the law … Continue Reading
June 28, 2024
NOAA slams bill against boat speed rule to protect whales
by Rob Hotakainen
Republicans on a House Natural Resources panel moved Thursday to block NOAA’s plan to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales by imposing speed limits on more boaters along the Atlantic coast. Testifying before the Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee, Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) said requiring vessels of 35 feet or larger to travel at a speed of 11.5 mph would be both dangerous and a blow to the economy. “Unfortunately, if this rule goes into effect, boaters who use 35-foot or … Continue Reading
June 26, 2024
House Republicans Show Some Uneasiness With the Pending SCOTUS Decision on Trump Immunity
by Riley Rogerson
As Donald Trump battles for his second term in the White House, he’s desperate to shake off lingering indictments alleging he committed crimes during his last stint in the Oval Office. Trump’s attorneys have fashioned a tidy solution. Inciting an insurrection, mishandling classified documents, and interfering with an election don’t matter because, surely, the president is “immune” from prosecution for crimes committed while running the country even after he leaves office. ... For Complete … Continue Reading
June 26, 2024
Arcata gets $1 million from feds for housing permit overhaul
by Jackson Guilfoil
The city of Arcata recently received $1 million from a Department of Housing and Urban Development program meant to remove roadblocks to housing development. The Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing grant will pay for a new ministerial permitting processing for development, funding the creation of a form-based code where certain developments could be permitted more quickly than under the current process. Arcata Community Development Director David Loya estimated that a new ministerial … Continue Reading
June 25, 2024
Rep. Jared Huffman Preparing for Trump 2.0 With a Task Force to Block Authoritarianism
by Scott Shafer
Since getting elected to Congress in 2012, Jared Huffman has represented a sprawling district that stretches from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. Huffman recently co-founded a Democratic task force aimed at heading off the most authoritarian parts of Project 2025, the blueprint of extreme policies and plans for Donald Trump if he wins in November. Scott talks with Huffman about the task force’s goals. Listen to Rep. Huffman's interview here: … Continue Reading
June 17, 2024
'If You Can Keep It': The Objectives of Project 2025
Jan. 20, 2025. Inauguration day. The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank that's prepared a more than 900-page plan they hope Donald Trump will adopt if he becomes the next president. It's called the Presidential Transition Plan - or as it's known more widely, Project 2025. It's been critiqued as a radically socially conservative and Christian nationalist proposal with the power to greatly disrupt the government. But what exactly does it aim to do? And what is the likelihood … Continue Reading
June 14, 2024
Dem lawmaker on plans to block Trump's agenda if he wins
by Jake Tapper
Watch Rep. Huffman's interview here: … Continue Reading
June 11, 2024
Trump’s Project 2025 plot would take ‘wrecking ball’ to US institutions, key Democrat warns
by David Smith
The blueprint for a potential second Donald Trump presidency known as Project 25 would take “a wrecking ball” to America’s democratic norms and institutions, a leading Democrat has warned. Representative Jared Huffman spoke to the Guardian before the launch of a congressional working group designed to sound the alarm about the rightwing roadmap and ensure that Trump never has the chance to implement its extreme agenda. The near 900-page Project 2025 handbook was produced by the Heritage … Continue Reading
June 11, 2024
A group of House Democrats steps up to try to stop Project 2025 and a Trump White House
by Lisa Mascaro
Warning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for a Donald Trump White House, a group of House Democrats has launched a task force to start fighting the proposal and stop it from taking hold if the Republican former president returns to power. Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman of California is unveiling The Stop Project 2025 Task Force on Tuesday, the latest sign that congressional Democrats and outside groups are treating Trump’s campaign seriously in the expected rematch against Democratic … Continue Reading
June 11, 2024
House Democrats prepare to highlight right-wing 'Project 2025' plans
by Joy Reid
“Have you heard of Project 2025?” is one of the most frequently asked questions in liberal politics these days. As more Americans start to tune into the November elections, a group of Democrats is trying to ensure that that question is also being asked by independent voters, Trump-skeptical Republicans and those "double-haters" who haven't made up their minds yet. Developed by the far-right Heritage Foundation, “Project 2025” is a set of policy initiatives written by Trump-supporting … Continue Reading
June 06, 2024
Lawmakers to SEC: Don’t give up on climate disclosure rule
by Emma Dumain
Thirty-eight lawmakers are urging the Securities and Exchange Commission to strengthen climate emissions reporting requirements for publicly traded companies The message shows progressive anxiety that the agency may not be prepared to push as hard as it can to force executives to disclose their carbon footprints. Its landmark rule on the issue is currently on hold pending litigation. “While the rule is an important step forward that will provide investors with key information about publicly … Continue Reading
June 06, 2024
On 80th anniversary of D-Day, Sonoma County veterans reflect on supreme courage, sacrifice
by AUSTIN MURPHY
Eighty years ago on Thursday, some 150,000 troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other Allied nations fought the climactic battle of World War II, landing on the beaches of Normandy, France and punching through Hitler’s “Atlantic Wall,” at frightful cost. Twenty years ago Thursday, on the 60th anniversary of D-Day, Izaak Schwaiger landed in Iraq along with the rest of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. A military translator, he was stationed in Najaf, a Shia holy city … Continue Reading
June 05, 2024
Biden official offers support for reworked minerals list
by Hannah Northey
A senior U.S. Geological Survey official Tuesday voiced support for legislation that would expand the federal government’s list of critical minerals to include materials like copper. Colin Williams, who leads the agency's mineral resources program, said the administration would work with lawmakers to make sure H.R. 8446 protects the integrity of two federal critical minerals lists — one from the USGS and a second from the Department of Energy. “As a possible way to manage the two lists, the … Continue Reading
June 04, 2024
Jared Huffman calls for last year’s salmon relief funds to be expedited
by Sage Alexander
U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman co-sent a letter to federal administrators on Tuesday calling for disaster relief funding to be allocated quicker for the state’s salmon fishery closure in 2023. A year later and no disaster funds have been distributed, and fishermen face another closed season. “California’s commercial, sport, and charter fishers, tribes, businesses, restaurants, and the communities who depend upon the salmon fishery cannot afford to wait any longer for the relief needed to weather the … Continue Reading
May 29, 2024
Natural Resources leaders spar over mine permitting plans
by Hannah Northey, Garrett Downs
House Natural Resources Republicans are probing whether the Interior Department flouted federal law and sidestepped public scrutiny when proposing new metrics for assessing mine approvals. Democrats are already calling the investigation a sham. Chair Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), chair of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and Pete Stauber (R-Minn.), chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, are questioning the Bureau of Land … Continue Reading
May 24, 2024
‘This is awful’: GOP slams offshore energy budget
by Heather Richards
House Natural Resources Republicans assailed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Liz Klein in a hearing Thursday for seeking increased funding for offshore wind while slowing down offshore oil leasing. “We cannot let the Department of the Interior sacrifice the livelihoods and security of Americans on the altar of hollow commitments to environmental activists,” said Energy and Mineral Resources Chair Pete Stauber (R-Minn.), calling on Klein to hold more offshore oil sales. Republicans … Continue Reading
May 23, 2024
National Endowment for the Arts awards grants
U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman has shared the news that several recipients in California’s Second Congressional District — including two in Humboldt County — have been awarded a total of $120,000 through the National Endowment for the Arts. The California Film Institute in San Rafael has received $30,000 for Grants for Arts Projects — Media Art to support the Mill Valley Film Festival and related community programming. The Marin Shakespeare Company in San Rafael has received $20,000 for Grants for … Continue Reading