You Should Be Concerned About ICE

By Jonah Platt You Should Be Concerned About ICE Published by The Union, Grass Valley, on Feb. 11, 2026   ICE has been trampling on the First, Second, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of citizens and non-citizens alike, and you should be concerned. It doesn’t take much to keep a beat of the inhumane violations

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Making Sure Local High Schools are Safe for Students

By Becky Gillespie I made the following public comment (below signature line) at the Nevada Joint Union High School District Board meeting on 8/13/2025, requesting that the board either update the language in its policies or make a resolution similar to the Tahoe Truckee School Board resolution so that students and their families know that

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Water: More Precious than Gold

By Sharon Delgado and Dianna Suarez Union article:  Water: More Precious than Gold             Even in the wake of the tremendous losses locally caused by the River Fire, and as heat waves, wildfires, drought, and smoke devastate Northern California, Rise Gold continues to inflate the economic benefits of reopening the

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We are better than this? Are we? by Tracy Pepper

Tracy Pepper is founder and executive director of Color Me Human and a board member of Earth Justice Ministries. Her Other Voices piece, “We are better than this? Are we?”  was published in the Grass Valley Union on August 13, 2020.  It is past time to address racial issues in this County. I have heard

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