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Remember Frank Riggs? We haven’t heard much about the former North Coast congressman since he left office in 1999 and then quit California for more Republican-friendly Arizona. Now, he’s back in the news, serving as Arizona campaign chairman for GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum.
State senators met for 20 minutes today. On the agenda: Making sure that their daily expense payments continue through the holiday weekend even though the Legislature isn’t in session.
What you're saying | 10 commentsPetaluma City Councilman Gabe Kearney seems to think it will. Kearney, who was the only member of the Petaluma Planning Commission to vote in favor of the project last month, says he believes much of the concern centered around the unknowns about who would be the anchor tenant. The fear of Walmart is now gone.
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Santa Rosa City Schools Superintendent Sharon Liddell announced Friday she will resign effective June 30. Liddell, who turns 65 next month, has been with Sonoma County’s largest school district since 2003. She became superintendent in 2005. “This is something I have been thinking about for a number of months,” she said. “I have some goals I’d like to achieve.”
Santa Rosa Councilman and Sonoma County supervisorial candidate John Sawyer has taken to Facebook and the phones this week to calm a small storm among his supporters and counter a newspaper story about his backing for a ballot measure to boost funding for children’s services.
The North Coast’s two Democratic Congress members resisted the tide of bipartisan support for renewing a Social Security payroll tax cut Friday, voting against the main legislation on President Barack Obama’s jobs agenda. Both said the sweeping support in the House and Senate was overshadowed by serious flaws in the legislation.
A more conservative remodeling of Santa Rosa Plaza won tentative approval from a city board Thursday but also criticism that it didn’t do enough to help bridge the barrier the mall creates between the east and west sides of downtown. Simon Property Group returned to the city’s Design Review Board on Thursday for feedback on what it called a ‘completely fresh’ approach to the facelift it wants to give the brick-covered mall, which opened in 1982.
The 30-year run of free parking at the Santa Rosa Plaza mall will end this summer. Officials from Simon Property Group distributed letters to merchants and city officials Thursday announcing a new controlled-parking program that will charge people up to $9 per day to park in the downtown mall’s five garages.
The final approvals have been given to build a commuter rail station near Rohnert Park Expressway in Rohnert Park, the closest thing that city has to being a downtown civic center.
The race to fill the open 1st District Sonoma County supervisor’s seat got a major shake-up Wednesday with the news that Sonoma Mayor Joanne Sanders plans to enter the contest. She becomes the third Sonoma Valley-based candidate, alongside Mark Bramfitt and Gina Cuclis.
Varied approaches to boosting the North Coast economy, ranging from biomass energy production to marijuana to coastal protection from oil drilling, were voiced by seven Democratic congressional candidates at a public forum Wednesday night in Petaluma.
Five candidates for an open seat on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors staked out largely similar positions supporting government programs to aid children and needy families at a public forum Wednesday.
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