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Jason Christian's avatar

CEQA was long overdue for rework.

Up here in the Washoe Forests, where we are avoiding CO2 as fast as we can, the Brown/Newsom/Legislative program to reform CEQA allows us to address, at scale, the crisis in the forests (with, it must be added, the innovative support of the Californiaclimate fund to backfill the missing Federal share of the costs, as well as the major State investments, thank you very much!).

We're California. Not just beautiful. Also very very smart.

Thank you Senator Weiner. You make it even easier than usual to proclaim how I, proud native of Loyalton, am equally proud to have been a San Francisco Democrat for almost as long as CEQA has been around.

Thank you Assemblywoman Wicks. Willie Brown told me a long time ago that I was a fine fit as a Dellums Democrat. Now if only our University were ready to own up to its epic face-plant and misconduct in Loyalton and Sierraville...

If we are to succeed in our task, of finding a new way to live in and as the forests, it is due in significant part to those whom our Paiute neighbors call "the brothers and sisters of Oakland and Berkeley." And the Washoe cousins of San Francisco and their neighbors, who continue the old practice of meals for the neighborhood, still the Mission, still a place where paths cross.

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Kathy Les's avatar

I so love all your interviews and subjects but I’m so disappointed in this one. That you would buy into the false logic that California’s CEQA is all bad and the drive toward more and more housing is all good. Wicks and Weiner are both fine legislators in so many cases but their simplification of this issue undermines their credibility in my estimation.

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Mike O'Brien's avatar

Thank you so much for all your work!! Very encouraging.

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