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STATE BUDGET EXCLUSIONS JEOPARDIZE ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS, SAY CLIMATE ADVOCATES
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ELECTRIC CAR MANDATE ALSO UNDER THREAT DUE TO DEFICIT By Nadia Lopez
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Photo by Christian Kallen
Environmentalists slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom for slashing billions of dollars from initiatives that the governor has repeatedly called top priorities: efforts to combat climate change and transition to zero-emission vehicles. Facing a projected $22.5 billion deficit, Newsom proposed to eliminate $6 billion in climate spending in his 202324 budget. The governor helped push a five-year $54 billion climate package approved by the legislature during last year’s session, but he now proposes to cut it to $48 billion. More than half of those proposed cuts—$3.3 billion—come from the state’s clean transportation initiatives. Newsom hopes to offset those reductions with federal funds and perhaps a new bond reserve, but the move comes just five months after the state approved a historic mandate for electrifying cars. Now climate advocates are questioning whether the state will be able to fund its ambitious electrification efforts and ensure California transitions to clean cars as it faces an economic downturn. “We recognize the financial situation, but this is exactly what we’ve been nervous about,” said Mike Young, political and organizing director at California Environmental Voters, an advocacy group. “We actually need to be investing and defending
FAMILY PHOTO A father takes a picture of two teens at Healdsburg's Railroad Park on Monday, Jan. 9, when the water level of the Russian River was near its highest for the week.
Storm KOs tree, Power Line on Reed Court STRONG WINDS, HIGH WATER DISRUPT HEALDSBURG’S ‘DRY JANUARY’ By Christian Kallen
It has been called a lot of things: the Pineapple Express, Atmospheric Rivers, a Cyclone Bomb and the Open Storm Door. Whether or not Healdsburg residents need to come up with their own name for it, there’s every indication
the January Storms of ’22 haven’t finished with them yet. Wave upon wave of Pacific storms have rolled into California since before the New Year, and continue to do so. Rainfall is expected daily though the weekend, with more in the forecast for the next 10 days. Rivers are high, the ground is saturated, power is out in wide regions elsewhere in the state and, according to The New York Times, at least 17 have died. The scale of the
calamity came home to some Healdsburg residents on Saturday night. As Healdsburg slumbered uneasily amid the howl of wind and roll of thunder, a tall conifer crashed to the ground near Giorgi Park at Reed and Bianca just after 11pm. The tree took down power lines and cables and split a wooden utility pole, cutting service to approximately 145 City of Healdsburg electric customers in the residential area. For Steve Neilsen and family, at the house on the
three daughters moved into the residential neighborhood following the loss of their own home on Mill Creek to the fires of 2020. Compared to that disaster, this was an inconvenience. City electric crews showed up in minutes and were able to reinforce the broken pole and, in a little over two hours, restore power. Roughly 132 customers were affected, though the city’s utilities manager, Terry Crowley, said “power to the
corner of that intersection, it was too close for comfort. “My daughter heard something and looked out the window to see it fall,” he said. A 40-foot cedar tree toppled to the ground, uprooting a cement walkway, destroying a hand built porch, pushing aside a metal storage house and crushing another on its way to demolishing part of the fence and taking down the power lines strung across the intersection. “Good thing it didn’t fall the other way,” said Neilsen. He, his wife and
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WINTER WINELAND EVENT REACHES 30TH YEAR POPULAR NORTH COUNTY WINERY MARKETING EVENT HOPES TO DODGE STORMY WEATHER By Christian Kallen
Photo by Steve Knudsen
BARREL ROOM Participants in the 2017 Winter Wineland gather in the Wilson Winery barrel room for a toast. The 30th
annual event takes place Jan. 14-15.
One of the longest-running winery events in Sonoma County is set to resume this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 14-15. It will be the 30th anniversary of Winter Wineland, one of four ➝ Wineland Event, 9