News Articles
November 18, 2011
Rep. Mike Thompson is sponsoring legislation to rename the threatened post office at the Veterans Home of California at Yountville on behalf of a Medal of Honor winner who died at the home two years ago.
November 17, 2011
Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, is inviting local schools and veterans to participate in the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.
In 2000, Congress created the project to collect, preserve and make accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so future generation may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.
In 2000, Congress created the project to collect, preserve and make accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so future generation may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.
November 13, 2011
The nation's biggest-ever dam removal project - knocking down four aging structures along the Klamath River on the California-Oregon border - took years of dickering among farmers, tribes, environmentalists and policymakers. Now it faces another high hurdle: Washington politics.
November 11, 2011
With implementation legislation introduced -- a milestone in the path to the Klamath dam removal project -- advocates will now have to convince legislators to pass the bill before a March deadline.
October 26, 2011
Sonoma County will use $2 million in state grant funds to help speed up payments to contractors installing solar panels and other power and water saving upgrades for homeowners in the county's energy retrofit program.
October 21, 2011
Jay Ottolini was glad to hear U.S. troops were pulling out of Iraq.
The retired Santa Rosa truck driver, whose younger brother Mike was killed by a roadside bomb in 2004, said the U.S. never should have been there in the first place.
“It's been hard,” said Ottolini, who has a tattoo tribute to his brother on his left shoulder. “I hope they bring them all back.”
The retired Santa Rosa truck driver, whose younger brother Mike was killed by a roadside bomb in 2004, said the U.S. never should have been there in the first place.
“It's been hard,” said Ottolini, who has a tattoo tribute to his brother on his left shoulder. “I hope they bring them all back.”
October 12, 2011
In a rare display of frustration with the Obama administration, California House Democrats on Wednesday assailed the White House for not doing more to address the foreclosure crisis.
"They don't get it,"Rep. Dennis Cardoza of Atwater said at a Capitol Hill news conference. "The administration has simply not done a darn thing to help my constituents."
"They don't get it,"Rep. Dennis Cardoza of Atwater said at a Capitol Hill news conference. "The administration has simply not done a darn thing to help my constituents."
September 28, 2011
Napa-area postal workers hoping to help save their embattled profession â€" and possibly their jobs â€" took their cause to downtown Napa on Tuesday afternoon.
Holding “Save America's Postal Service” placards, more than 20 current and retired letter carriers lined Main Street outside Rep. Mike Thompson's office.
Holding “Save America's Postal Service” placards, more than 20 current and retired letter carriers lined Main Street outside Rep. Mike Thompson's office.
September 22, 2011
The Klamath dam removal project would be an economic shot in the arm for communities throughout rural Northern California, according to studies released Wednesday.
August 12, 2011
Yurok Tribal Chairman Thomas O'Rourke Sr. stood at the edge of Blue Creek, a cold water fish refuge connected to the Klamath River, and shared the tribe's most spiritual place with the public figures and advocates who may help save it.
”Welcome to our home; you are in the very essence of who we are,” he told a group of nearly 40 people touring the river Thursday.
Issues:Energy & Environment