VOID of Safety (video)
By Albert Gregory and Danica Simonet — Following the death of a high school student on a Santa Rosa campus, parents and students debate what could be done to prevent another tragedy like this in the future, including the return of school resource officers.
Cultivating Futures (Video)
By Albert Gregory and Maarya Zafar — Seed libraries have sprouted up all over the Bay Area and now the world. They can provide a diversity of seeds free to the public that are not always offered at your local grocery store or nursery. They have the power to increase food sovereignty, but the people…
Rasta Charlie: Representation or Racist? (Video)
By Albert Gregory and Maggie Fuller — Charles Shulz’s “Peanuts” characters have been commemorated with statues all over the city of Santa Rosa, CA, where Shulz spent the latter part of his life. After a recent complaint about a statue known as Rasta Charlie, debate sparked over the removal of a once beloved statue.
The Uncounted: San Francisco’s homeless deaths have gone unreported by the city and county since 2019
By Albert Gregory and Albert Serna Jr. — The last time Reverend Victor Floyd saw his friend Charles Davis, he was smiling. Davis had spent much of the last 45 years unhoused, living on the streets of San Francisco and Seattle. It was early 2020, the start of the pandemic, when he thought he had…
SESTA-FOSTA and COVID-19 Drastically Changed the Digital Sex Work Landscape
By Albert Gregory — Kristen DiAngelo was posting her services on a sex work advertising site known as SFRedbook.com one day in 2014. Rather than the links to forums, reviews and ads she was typically met with all she saw was a gut-wrenching message: “This domain name has been seized by the Federal Bureau of…
SRJC Trustee is a Role Model for Underrepresented Students
By Albert Gregory — As far back as Mariana Martínez can remember, she has always loved Wonder Woman. As a kid, she sat in her mother’s home in Southwest Santa Rosa and watched reruns of the ’70s-era TV show, admiring the capeless crusader played by the actress Lynda Carter as she easily bent steel and…
Want to Make Money on OnlyFans and not waste your time?
By Albert Gregory — Melissa Harris stares at her computer. She has too many tabs and separate windows open on her screen to count. She is sitting on the navy-blue couch in her tiny living room as she has been since March 2020 when the world shut down, forcing her to conduct business as a…
From Prison to College: Education opportunities in and out of incarceration can transform lives
By Albert Gregory — The incarceration system is a complicated institution. When a person enters prison, their life is often changed forever. Hope for a promising future may feel like a fleeting memory. Whether incarcerated as a youth or an adult, education has been a life raft for many inmates drowning in the feelings of…
Eddie Alvarez wins city council seat, gives representation to Roseland and Latinos
By Albert Gregory — Eddie Alvarez has claimed victory in Santa Rosa’s city council election Nov. 4, winning the seat to become the first representative of District 1 and only the second Latino council member ever, according to the Sonoma County Voters Registrar office. With all 13 precincts reporting, Alvarez, who leads by a 15%…
Profile: Local businessman’s leap of faith into cannabis pays off
By Albert Gregory — Distanced from much of his wilder partying days and Burning Man escapades, Aaron Selverston’s newest adventure now finds him as a husband and a father—all while running a thriving cannabis distribution company in Santa Rosa, amidst a pandemic, with the same fervor and energy he’s had since he was a kid.…
LOCAL RESIDENTS DEMAND MORE ACCOUNTABILITY OF SHERIFFs
By Albert Gregory — Activists and local area residents gathered at the Andy Lopez mural Sunday in Roseland to show support for Measure P and demand more accountability and transparency from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department at the “Say Their Names!” protest. The protest in Santa Rosa consisted of a call and response of names,…
Santa Rosa Finishes shift to district-based elections
By Albert Gregory — Santa Rosa will complete the transition from electing at-large city council members to the now district-based representatives when they vote on Nov. 3 to decide who will fill the final seats. After Shenkman & Hughes, a Malibu law firm, threatened to sue the city and dozens of other local California governments,…
misleading data shows covid-19 cases drop in latino population
By Albert Gregory — In Sonoma County the Latino population’s proportion of coronavirus cases has recently decreased due to aggressive community-based outreach and a rise in COVID-19 cases among Non-Latino populations, according to officials in Sonoma County’s media briefing Monday. The COVID-19 cases the Latino population made up has dropped from 77% in June to…
Piner Football Coach: Players Should Focus on Families Durning Pandemic
By Albert Gregory — Terence Bell knows that the sport of football requires you to always be prepared. However, nothing could have prepared Piner High School’s 31-year-old head football coach for a worldwide pandemic that would not only lock him indoors with a new baby, but also cancel spring workouts and leave any future football…
Cardinal Newman’s Hard Work Pays Off with 31-14 Title Win
By Albert Gregory — If there’s one mindset the Cardinal Newman High School football team can look back on and now say led to a much of this year’s success, it would be this: “Limit the mistakes!” Newman head coach Paul Cronin yelled it from the sideline many times this season. It’s a common message…
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