I today received this email from Ric Ryan, the Walking Man of Murphys who donates money to surgically repair the faces of wounded military veterans every time someone waves at him as he walks along Highway 4: Just a short message to let you know CBS called me last night and will be here tomorrow [...]
Those of you who live along Highway 4 in Calaveras County are already familiar with Ric Ryan, the walking man of Murphys. He is both building his own health by long walks along Highway 4 AND donating to help other veterans everytime someone waves at him during those walks. The money goes to Operation Mend, which does [...]
Today I was astonished to read item 22 on the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors agenda for this coming Tuesday (April 23.) Said item indicated the board will be asked to approve an agreement with the state which would result in spending $8.1 billion over five years on “specialty mental health services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries [...]
The late Pat Derby, the founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Society, will be honored Wednesday by the Los Angeles City Council. Derby, who died in February, was a one-time movie and television animal trainer (she worked with Lassie and Flipper) who in later life became an animal advocate. She spent much of her time [...]
A Ukiah resident named James D. Smith on Friday cleared the necessary hurdles to begin circulating a ballot initiative that would heavily tax timber harvests and use the resulting funds to create a massive new state government agency to manage forests. The California Secretary of State announced Friday that Smith and his allies will have to gather 504,760 signatures to [...]
Assemblywoman Susan Eggman’s spot bill — AB 1319 — is no longer a spot bill. And it does have a direct relationship to the text originally included. The bill deals with diseased livestock. It removes the requirement that the state compensate the owner of brucellosis-infected cattle when those cattle are ordered slaughtered by state officials [...]
State Senator Tom Berryhill’s AB 583, which would make California fishing licenses good for a year from the date of puchase (versus the present calendar-year-only licenses) has been referred to the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee and will have a hearing April 23. Also moving to committee is a spot bill by Assemblywoman Susan [...]
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There must be a reason that six different people have held the top land use planning job in Calaveras County over the last seven years. I suspect it is because those officials get inconsistent, if not impossibly contradictory direction from the county’s elected leaders. One of the greatest examples is the long-overdue effort to update the [...]
“…the same home that launched me into a wider, more fulfilling life was where his life ended.”