Political infighting has moved to a new pre-election battleground-the ballot summaries in the publicly published, non-partisan election guides.

Dave McCuan is Associate Professor of Political Science at Sonoma State University.

There’s more economic benefit to letting scuba divers see live sharks swimming off the California coast than there is in fishing for them.

  
Click here to read a summary of the new study Sea The Value:  Quantifying the Value of Marine Life to Divers. 

Even in Marin County, environmentalists see a need to preserve more lands in open space, and have formed a new organization to do just that.

Visit the MOST website here .

To view the Marin County Open Space District website as well as a map of current open space land, click here .

Plastic shopping bags have been banned in cities as big as San Francisco and as small as Healdsburg, but Marin county attorney Stephen Joseph says they’re getting a bum rap.

Tiburon Attorney Stephen Joseph has created the SaveThePlasticBag.org website.

His campaign was also recently profiled in TIME magazine.

Below, Joseph talks about the few photos that purport to show wildlife being harmed by plastic bags in their natural environment.

Plastic bags should be reused whenever possible, and those not being used can be recycled.