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The Sonoma Valley Community Health Center recently broke ground on a new, 18,000-square-foot facility that will help it treat an expected influx of patients amid expansion under health care reform, nearly tripling the size of its current location.
The new location, at 19270 Sonoma Highway in a former strip mall, will nearly triple the size of the health center upon completion, expected in June for an opening in July, officials said. It will replace the current center at 430 W. Napa St.
The three Santa Rosa residents registered for Sunday's forum on the Affordable Care Act and then gathered outside in the sun, discussing in Spanish the questions they had.
"The first question is, 'What help is there for people who don't earn much," said Odilon Salgado, 53, sitting on the curb outside Taylor Mountain Elementary School. "For people like me, for farmworkers."
"Another question," added Yolanda Flores of Santa Rosa, "is it obligatory."
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced a $2,475,991 federal Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) for the Rodeo-Hercules Fire Protection District (RHFD). The grant was awarded through The Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The funds are part of an AFG program called Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER).
WASHINGTON, DC – Northern California and Bay Area RepresentativesGeorge Miller (CA-11), Mike Thompson (CA-5), Doris Matsui (CA-6), John Garamendi (CA-3), Jerry McNerney (CA-9), and Anna Eshoo (CA-18) today issued the following statement after legislation aimed to help West Coast farmers and communities during drought conditions was introduced in the U.S. Senate:
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today released the following video statement on Black History Month. Video and a full transcript are below.
“Hi, I’m Mike Thompson.
“This February, I hope you’ll join our community in celebrating Black History Month by recognizing a defining moment in our nation’s history: the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
Seventy-five percent of California is in an "extreme" or "exceptional" drought. CBS News' Bill Whitaker reports on how Washington is turning the crisis into a campaign issue.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KCBS) — The Republican-controlled House of Representatives approved a water bill on Wednesday addressing California’s ongoing drought but the measure is likely to go no further because of a White House veto threat and opposition from the state’s Democratic Senators.
The federal water bill, passed mostly along party line 229-191, loosens environmental restrictions to pump more water from the Delta to the San Joaquin Valley.
Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, visited with eighth-grade students in Ms. Jo Ann Clark’s U.S. history class at American Canyon Middle School. As a part of their project based learning unit called a “Message to Congress,” students actively researched and prepared documentary films about a current issue that is important to them.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) announced today the launch of the first annual Congressional Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) academic competition, known as the House App Challenge, for the 5th Congressional District.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today voted against the House Majority’s California water bill, H.R. 3964. The legislation would allow water to be pumped south from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for as long as water is available, and it would undo the San Joaquin River restoration, an agreement to reconnect the river with the Pacific Ocean and reintroduce salmon flows.