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Weekly News Clips – The Barbed Wire – September 26, 2025

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RCRC press releases and related news clips about RCRC and our member counties. Please note that a subscription may be required to read some external publications.

Redistricting could pair these rural ranchers with Marin voters – Calmatters

RCRC Chair and Modoc County Supervisor Geri Byrne was quoted in CalMatters discussing Prop 50. and its impacts on Modoc County. “It wasn’t conservative-liberal,” Supervisor Byrne said. “It was the urban-rural divide, and that’s what this whole Prop. 50 is about.”

Getting Lithium Right in California – Earthworks

Deep underground near the Salton Sea, in southern California’s Imperial Valley, lies one of the largest lithium deposits in the world. It has drawn the attention of clean tech entrepreneurs, climate activists, and politicians

Inyo County Hospital could close without emergency state funding – Calmatters

The financial crisis at Southern Inyo Healthcare District comes as rural hospitals nationwide face rising costs and federal Medicaid cuts.