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Jul 23, 2024

County orders volunteer to stop giving H2O to homeless people

Part one of a two-part series on the Binford Road RV encampment A street chaplain and a Marin County official have been engaged in a six-week standoff over supplying potable water to homeless people on Binford Road in Novato. Each side seems well-entrenched in its position. Gary Naja-Riese, director of Marin...
A chaplain from The Street Chaplaincy in Marin offers spiritual support to a homeless person in San Rafael.
Jul 2, 2024

Marin group serving homeless people reaches crossroads

For more than two decades, professionals from The Street Chaplaincy have walked throughout Marin, providing spiritual care to homeless...
Jun 25, 2024

Come to the Table: strangers meet to dine with open minds

The late celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain once said, “You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal...
Jun 18, 2024

Chinook Salmon in Hot Water

There may not be tumbleweed blowing through the salty streets of California’s coastal marinas, but the collapse of the...
Jun 4, 2024

Fact Check: County points out reporter’s error, admits its own policy flaw

Last month, I received an email from the county telling me that I made a mistake in an article....
May 30, 2024

Another incarcerated person dies in Marin County Jail cell

An incarcerated man died in the Marin County Jail early this morning, marking the fourth in-custody death since August. He...
May 24, 2024

Store harassed homeless people with loud music, lawsuit claims

A court order put the kibosh on a San Rafael tire store “blaring loud music” from speakers pointed at...
May 21, 2024

Remembering ‘The Serial’ writer, Cyra McFadden

In November 1975, Cyra McFadden’s “The Serial,” a weekly satirical column capturing Marin’s self-indulgent ’70s, premiered on the pages...
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