Aubrey Ilasco, a first-grader at Matthew Turner Elementary School, won first place for a letter she had written to Sen. Kamala Harris in the 2017 Growing Up Asian in America contest. The contest, put on by the San Francisco-based community foundation Asian Pacific Fund, is put on annually during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and […]
Congressional bill would allow John Muir Site expansion
By Donna Beth Weilenman Martinez News Gazette A new bill introduced into both houses of Congress would pave the way to add 44 acres in the Alhambra Creek watershed to the John Muir National Historic Site. U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA-11), in whose district is a portion of Martinez, and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) […]
Monica Brown defeats Ioakimedes for county supervisor seat, Rep. Thompson steadily re-elected, and other races
Mike Ioakimedes, a former Benicia planning commissioner and city councilmember, lost his bid to serve on the Board of Supervisors for Solano County’s second district. Instead, that seat will go to Solano Community College board Trustee Monica Brown, who received 53 percent of the vote to Ioakimedes’ 45 percent. In other races affecting Benicia, the […]
Solano County primary election results mirror that of state’s
On Tuesday, voters across California turned up in droves to vote in the state’s primary election. In Solano County, the results were no different than how citizens voted in the rest of the state. As in the state’s Democratic presidential primary election, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won in Solano County over Vermont Sen. […]
State AG: Valero DEIR ‘inadequate’
■ Kamala Harris letter to city: Crude-by-rail report fails to address multiple key issues In a letter composed Oct. 2, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris urged Benicia to revise the Draft Environmental Impact Report prepared for the proposed Valero Crude-by-Rail Project. She and Deputy Attorney General Scott J. Lichtig wrote Benicia Principal Planner Amy […]