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Private Jefferson County mountaintop where ladybugs breed and lions and bears live soon will be public open space

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:10:51 GMT

A mountain summit in Jefferson County where millions of ladybugs breed with surrounding foothills that are home to elk moose, mountain lions, bears and other animals long has been off-limits as private property.Now this 9,741-foot Mount Tom, 30 miles northwest of Denver, is public open space following a $25 million deal by the Conservation Fund, Great Outdoors Colorado, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and Jefferson County. They’ve acquired ownership of about 2,000 acres that eventually will be accessible to the public.“Even if our population stopped growing, all you have to do is go skiing on a weekend, or go camping in the summer, and see all the vehicle traffic heading up into the mountains,” the Conservation Fund’s state director Justin Spring said.The emerging new Mount Tom Conservation Corridor “is much closer to home,” Spring said, “and in a few years it will be a really accessible mountain recreation area.”For wildlife including th...

Could the most delicious pizza on the Front Range be in Longmont?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:10:51 GMT

Editor’s note: This is part of Hidden Gems, a monthly series in which we take a look at those restaurants you should know about but may not. They are either tucked away in strip malls or otherwise off the beaten path. Try them out, and if you like what you eat, pass the word.  It’s easy for those of us who don’t live in Longmont to miss some of the Front Range’s best pizza. (Some East Coast transplants might try to tell you that it’s the best, but pizza is far too important of a subject to have a single slice bear the burden of such a heavy crown.)Longmont is outside the busy Denver-Boulder corridor, and Rosalee’s Pizzeria is pretty small, so yeah, there are reasons we may not have tried this New York-style-but-crispier pie.But that shouldn’t matter when we’re talking thin, cheesy, just-greasy-enough slices and house-made Italian sausage that’s the star of sausage rolls, your 18-inch pizza and, unless you’re getting engaged or meeting your first grandchild, probably your night...

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Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:10:51 GMT

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Toll lanes being added for 20 miles on Interstate 80: Roadshow

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:10:51 GMT

Q: Every time we head to Sacramento and pass the work being done on Interstate 80 near Vacaville, I wonder what they’re doing. Lots of people travel in the fast lane, but it is right next to the temporary concrete barrier, so I worry about them.Barbara SandovalA: The work you see being done in the center divide is a project to extend the express lane for 20 miles from Red Top Road in Fairfield to Leisure Town Road (just past I-505 junction) in Vacaville. This area is a bit of a bottleneck now, where east/west traffic on I-80 joins with north/south traffic on I-505.Q: I take some exception to your advice about how handicap parking is enforced. I went to an Alameda County Courthouse, Dublin, I think, and a gardening tractor/trailer rig was parked across all handicap parking, except one or two spaces. I complained to sheriffs monitoring the metal detectors and their response was, “You got a parking space, so what’s the problem?”Even more egregious, Palo Alto Med...

Heather Farm Park set for major upgrades

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:10:51 GMT

Walnut Creek is eagerly preparing to upgrade one of its beloved parks, with a considerable chunk of funding stemming from a voter-approved sales tax expected to yield tens of millions of dollars for the project.The City Council has given the nod to the proposed improvement of Heather Farm Park’s swim center and community center,  both of which are more than half a century old and presently located on opposite sides of the 102-acre park.Though combining the two facilities will require reducing the size of the fishing pond to make room for the new pools, other amenities at the popular park will remain, including tennis courts, picnic areas, the equestrian center, a skate park, an off-leash dog park, bike paths, an all-ability playground, tot lots, a sand volleyball court, a nature pond, six athletic fields, restrooms and a connection to the Iron Horse Trail. The new swim center would be north of the central playground.This sweeping project, among the most expansive of its kind in the ...

Editorial: Abortion pill ruling further erodes trust in federal courts

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:10:51 GMT

Month by month, week by week, day by day, the federal courts are squandering their public trust.The partisanship of the judiciary was on full display last week when a Trump-appointed judge with a long history of anti-abortion activism issued a mind-boggling preliminary ruling invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.The decision threatens to make it much more difficult for patients across the country to access the medication. More than half of all abortions in the United States are medically induced using mifepristone. The ruling is an outrageous assault on a woman’s right to choose.If upheld, the decision would also undermine the FDA’s authority to determine whether drugs are safe and effective, creating chaos in the pharmaceutical industry. No court has ever overturned an FDA decision to allow distribution of a drug since Congress gave the agency authority in 1938.The safety of mifepristone should not ...

San Jose names city economics expert as new downtown-specific manager

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:10:51 GMT

SAN JOSE — Downtown San Jose now has a high-level city official who will be solely dedicated to efforts to bolster the city’s urban core, an appointment that fulfills a primary goal of the city’s mayor.Nathan Donato-Weinstein, an official with the city’s Economic Development Department, has been named to a post whereby his sole role would be to craft and direct an overall strategy for downtown San Jose.The downtown-specific role would enable Donato-Weinstein to focus only on downtown San Jose and its economic, retail, dining, entertainment, housing, workplace and social mosaics. For several years, Donato-Weinstein has been the business development officer with the city’s Economic Development Department.Municipal officials hope the newly created post would help the downtown achieve this lofty version as the principal gathering place for Silicon Valley.“This role is important to drive forward our shared goals for Silicon Valley’s true urban center,&...

DeSaulnier: Amid American gun crisis, California leads with solutions

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:10:51 GMT

In the aftermath of a school shooting last month that left children as young as 9 years old dead in the state he represents, a Republican congressman from Tennessee publicly declared that Congress “is not going to fix” gun violence.This statement is infuriating, especially because gun violence kills over 100 Americans a day. But with his sentiments shared by his colleagues in the majority party, for now at least, he may be right.While congressional Democrats will never stop fighting for national reform, the Republican resistance pushes the struggle to the state level. And there, states can and should look to California and the success we have had in reducing gun violence through commonsense, evidence-based measures. Replicating them across the United States would save lives.Opponents of gun safety reform — including congressional Republicans whose subservience to the NRA renders them unwilling to fix the problem — tell Americans that laws are not the solution. But Califo...

San Mateo County supervisors approve penalties for watching illegal fireworks

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:10:51 GMT

(BCN) -- People who attend illegal fireworks shows in San Mateo County would find themselves facing a fine, in addition to those who set off the fireworks, following a vote Tuesday by the county's Board of Supervisors. The board amended the county's existing fireworks ordinance to make spectators of illegal fireworks subject to a fine of $500. Spectators are defined as anyone within 200 feet of an illegal fireworks discharge who is there to observe them. Repeat violators within 12 months of a prior citation would be fined $1,000. The revised fireworks ordinance would also hold parents or guardians liable for the illegal fireworks set off by minors. "Sheriff (Christina) Corpus and I got together and began to have discussions about how we could work together to strengthen our fireworks ordinance, perhaps give it more teeth," said Supervisor Warren Slocum, who introduced the amendments. "And that's exactly what we did." Violators will also be responsible for the cost of ha...

Advocates rally in support of speed cameras in San Francisco

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:10:51 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Dozens are set to gather Wednesday morning to advocate for the state of California to pilot speed safety cameras in major cities across the state.Advocates are set to leave from San Francisco City Hall at 7:45 a.m. and head to the state capitol where the group plans to speak with law makers about Assembly Bill 645. This bill would allow speed safety cameras to be legal in California.The cameras would use speed measurement devices to detect speeding and capture evidence of a vehicle violating the speed limit by photo of a license plate. Fines would start at $50 for anyone caught driving 11 miles over the speed limit and go up from there, with fee reductions offered to those who financially qualify.Revenue from the fines would go towards street safety things like speed bumps.The group wants the cameras placed in places with high crash rates and school zones, specifically in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Los Angeles, Glendale and Long Beach.Advocates say the...