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FAIRFIELD — An updated five-year Public Works Capital Improvement Plan, extended out to 2027-28, has a total of $141.81 million in projects. “The majority of that is unfunded, and that is how we do it,” Matt Tuggle, the county engineering manager, told the Board of Supervisors last week. “We list projects we want to do . . . and include it in the plan.” As projects are completed, others are added. More than $96 million of the projects – mostly in the later years of the plan – are unfunded. There are also several large multiple-year projects listed, including key projects such as McCormack Road and Benicia Road, both of which are part of the current 2022-23 project list. The county is beginning Phase 1 of the construction work on Benicia Road, while acquiring right of way

properties to continue its progress on McCormack. The cost of the Benicia project is listed at $1 million. The dollar amount going toward McCormack Road this year is listed at $70,000. There is about $4.67 million in projects on the 2022-23 list, which includes $4.598 million going toward actual construction projects, including 1.26 miles on Winters Road, from 250 feet north of Campos Lane to 754 feet east of Putah Creek Road. That is the most costly project listed at $1.503 million. Acquisition of land at the Wolfskill site for a Mankas Corner parking lot is also listed at an estimated cost of $10,000. The 2023-24 budget is set at $16.075 million, and includes Phase 2 of Benicia Road, $2.4 million as yet unfunded, as well as the actual construction on the parking lot at a cost of $1.5 million, also unfunded. The project list also See Projects, Page A7

Pacific storm knocks out power in California, set to come east Tribune Content Agency A powerful Pacific storm knocked out power to thousands across California and is threatening heavy mountain snow and flooding rain near the coast before it moves across the country. The storm could churn tornadoes in the South and drop snow in the East by the end of the week. Snow piled up in Washington, Oregon and California on Saturday, and an additional 2 feet could fall in the higher peaks of the Sierra Nevada range through Monday, the National Weather Service said. Southern California could get drenched Sunday with as much as 2 inches of heavy rain along the coast and valleys and 6 inches in the foothills. The storm had knocked out power to 49,411 customers early

Sunday, according to Pow erOutage.us. On Saturday, California’s power grid operator issued a transmission emergency in the Humboldt area because of high winds, rain and heavy mountain snow. The system will cross the Rocky Mountains, moving into the Great Plains on Monday into Tuesday, and “then it really intensifies,” said Marc Chenard, a senior branch forecaster at the U.S. Weather Prediction Center. There’s an increased risk tornadoes, high winds and thunderstorms will break out across parts of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, according to the U.S. Storm Prediction Center. As the storm moves east it could bring heavy snow, as well as blizzard conditions from Montana to Minnesota, Chenard said.

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Beverly Moore’s family home in Richmond was taken through eminent domain.

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Beverly Moore recalls feeling a wave of relief when her family rented a house in Richmond, California after their prior house burned down in the late 1950s. The one-story wooden house at 502 Enterprise Ave. soon became part of a close-knit Black community. There was a porch and a den filled with books. Moore remembers her mom tending to their fig and pear trees with water from their well. Her mother grew collard greens that she traded with neighbors for fresh-caught fish. Moore held jobs through her teen years and after graduating from Cal State Fresno, she bought that house for her mother in 1980, relieving her from a lifetime of renting. “It was a privilege to buy our home for my mom; it was something she was unable to do,” Moore said recently. But their homeownership was short-lived. In 1993 the city of Richmond seized the home through eminent

domain to make way for a drainage system linked to the Richmond Parkway, which connects the city with a bridge into Marin County. The Moore house was the only home on the block that was demolished. Eminent domain is when a government takes private property for public use, often to construct roads, highways, schools or for some other public purpose. By law the government is required to provide property owners with “just compensation.”

Coveted property For decades Black families have borne the brunt of these land grabs, with many like Moore saying they had little or no recourse. Eminent domain still poses barriers to Black homeownership today, contributing to the wealth gap. Often local governments justified these actions by declaring areas “blighted,” a word advocates say became synonymous with low-income, under-resourced neighborhoods. “California was at the forefront

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Man accused of being Lockerbie bombmaker in US custody, Scotland says Tribune Content Agency EDINBURGH, Scotland — The man accused of being the bombmaker in the 1988 Lockerbie terrorist attack is now in U.S. custody, authorities in Scotland said on Sunday. Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi was said to be the “third conspirator” behind the downing of Pan Am

flight 103 in 1988. The bombing of Pan Am flight 103, bound from London to New York on Dec. 21, 1988, killed 270 people in Britain’s largest terrorist attack. Former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was previously found guilty of mass murder in the case, in 2001. A spokesperson for

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of this kind of abuse,” said Bob McNamara, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, a national libertarian public interest law firm. “For a long time California treated the concept of blighted property as basically synonymous with coveted property. It was blighted if they wanted it.” A study of more than 2,532 “blight” projects nationwide found the projects displaced more than 1 million Black Americans from 1949 to 1973. Those were the years the Federal Housing Act first authorized cities to use eminent domain to clear “blighted neighborhoods,” according to the Institute for Justice, authors of the study. Black people were 12% of the population but two-thirds of those displaced. “It changed the whole dynamic of everybody’s life,” Moore said of her family’s experience. “We never had that place to come back to, to land, without that support.” Today Moore, a retired mental health case manager living in Fairfield, believes she has a chance

bringing those who acted along with Al Megrahi to justice.” In 2020, Mas’ud was charged by then U.S. attorney general William Barr with being the third person involved in the terrorist attack. At the time, he was said to be in Libyan custody and Barr said U.S. authoriSee Custody, Page A7

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