The Coffee House

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:00:00 +0100

At Sonoma County's only shelter specifically for homeless teens, intensive family counseling is the ticket to getting the kids safely back home again. And most of the time, it works.

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Rebuilding in Kyrgyzstan

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:00:00 +0100

Of all the international hot spots where disaster assistance workers were needed last summer, Kyrgyzstan didn’t get a lot of attention. But that’s where one local volunteer spent most of July, working on rebuilding after a regime change and a spate of internal ethnic conflict.

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Affordable Housing Week

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:00:00 +0100

It isn’t getting any easier to build affordable housing in California. But the need for it is continuing to grow all the same.

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Foreclosures Part 1

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100

The wave of home foreclosures that swept California in 2008 and 2009 has not gone away. In some ways, it may be getting worse.

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State of the County 2010

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:43:05 +0100

Each January, the chair of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors presents a Report to the community that reflects on the year just past, and looks ahead into the year just beginning. For the past several years, KRCB has been pleased to broadcast this annual State of the County address, a tradition that continues with this online posting of the audio from the event, as introduced by News DRead More...

Crisis at Home

Voice of Youth — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:56:57 +0100

Ten teenagers from Santa Rosa, California-based Community Action Partners explore the impact of the national economic crisis on our local communities. These young "citizen journalists" explore a wide range of topics such as housing, food, and unemployment, and meet many individuals facing these unprecedented challenges.

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Watch Monday Night at 7:30 p.m. on KRCB-TV

The New Madrid Earthquakes

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:00:00 +0100

The most powerful earthquakes in American history didn’t happen in California or Alaska, but almost 200 years ago in Missouri.

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Ghosts

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0100

Are ghosts real? The Sonoma County Paranormal Institute hasn’t been able to prove that…yet…but they have encounterd some strange things that defy explanation.

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Builders of the Pacific Coast

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:00:00 +0100

From remote cabins crafted of driftwood to stunningly beautiful and unconventional family homes, Bolinas-based writer and photographer Lloyd Kahn collects innovative individual builders up and down the Pacific Coast.

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Below are two examples of the buildings featured in the book: The elbaorate temple built by SunRRead More...

Community Benefit Agreement

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0100

A new “Community Benefit Agreement” between the developers of the big Sonoma Mountain Village project in Rohnert Park and a coalition of labor, housing and environmental groups could set a new standard for cooperation between factions that have more often been adversaries.

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The Immigrant Paradox

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100

What segment of California’s population is healthiest? It’s probably not what you would think.

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As Alameda County’s Public Health Officer, Dr. Anthony Iton (lRead More...

The Greening of Greensburg

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Just two years after being leveled by a tornado, Greensburg, a tiny town in the middle of Kansas has become a model for green rebuilding.

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Nearly 95% of the town's homes and other buildings were destroyed by the storm, as seen in this photo, taken a week after the tornado hRead More...

Prop 13's Loophole

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Amending Proposition 13 to assess commercial properties differently than residential property would not just raise more money for cash-strapped California, it would also address the inherent unfairness in the 31-year old initiative.

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