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Close to Home: Rural California needs help with wildfire mitigation – Press Democrat
In a commentary to the Press Democrat, Napa County Supervisor and RCRC Second Vice Chair Anne Cottrell stresses the need for wildfire mitigation measures such as home-hardening and defensible space to protect rural communities. She also highlights The Disaster Resiliency and Coverage Act of 2025 (H.R. 1105), currently pending before Congress, as a critical step toward advancing these mitigation measures and narrowing the insurance protection gap.
Who does California’s hyper-partisan gas tax fight hurt? – CalMatters
Madera County Supervisor Robert Poythress is featured in CalMatters.org highlighting the projected decline in gas tax revenues that fund roads and highways and the need to explore alternative transportation funding sources through AB 1421.
Gov. Gavin Newsom names new Cal OES director – Sacramento Bee
Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Caroline Thomas Jacobs, a former senior manager at the technology company Apple, as the new director of the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services on Tuesday.
The rural California town of Weed was already struggling. Then its iconic totem pole fell – Los Angeles Times
The redwood totem pole of Weed — a 32-foot roadside oddity that stood for 64 years — now lies flat in the parking lot of the Ray’s Food Place grocery store.