Agriculture (Finally) Scores Some Serious State Climate Funding
By Leanna Sweha Governor Brown last week signed two bills sending almost $1.5 billion in cap-and-trade auction…
Yolo County Is Primed for Cannabis Agriculture
By Dan Grace For the past 10 years, Dark Heart Nursery has proudly served the medical cannabis…
County Board Will Decide Fate of Field & Pond on Tuesday
The County Board of Supervisors will make a final determination on the contentious Field & Pond event…
Idyllic Bed and Breakfast Becomes the Subject of a Bitter Land Use Dispute
Dahvie James sits on a chair in the living room of the main building in the Field…
DJUSD Looks to Its Own Innovation
The school district is in the process of creating an advisory team for Career Technical Education (CTE)…
Yamada Figures to Be A Formidable Candidate For Senate
In 2008, then-Yolo County Supervisor Mariko Yamada faced long odds in the battle for the open Assembly…
UC Davis Ranked No. 1 in World for Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences
by UC Davis News Service The University of California, Davis, ranks No. 1 in the world for…
How Do Environmentalists Reconcile Poverty and Energy Needs with Climate Change?
There was a fascinating New York Times article that lays bare the dilemma we will face as…
My View: California’s Water Policy Too Late, Fails to Note the 800-Pound Gorilla
While the big news was Governor Brown’s Wednesday announcement of the first mandatory water restrictions in state…
Agriculture as a Net Sink of Greenhouse Gases: Proposals to Invest Cap-and-Trade Revenues
By Leanna Sweha Governor Brown’s FY 2015-16 budget proposal calls for new actions to further reduce greenhouse…
Lawns versus Almonds – Can’t We All Just Get Along?
By Leanna Sweha Last week, the East Bay Express published an article by Robert Gammon entitled “California…
The Lack of Vision Paradox, Part II
On Sunday, I published a column, “The Lack of Vision Paradox, Part I.” In it, I argued…
