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Jefferson separatist movement split off into a new, 51st state? Almost anywhere you drive through Northern California, you’ll see green and gold signs, flags and banners heralding the arrival of the State of Jefferson, a separatist movement that nearly succeeded in 1941 and, more recently, has grown like a grass fire in the era of Trump. The signs feature “The Great Seal of the State of Jefferson,” a gold pan emblazoned with two X’s—Jeffersonians have long believed they’ve been double-crossed by big city politicians in Sacramento who take their money but ignore their concerns.

A heavy dousing of autumn rain in Northern California has lifted a quarter of the state out of drought, the highest percentage in more than three years, according to a new federal report Thursday. Water officials who oversaw mandatory water conservation by cities and towns emphasized three-fourths of the state remains in the five-year drought. "Droughts are like recessions. Recovery from a recession doesn't happen overnight; recovery from a drought doesn't happen overnight," said Max Gomberg of the state Water Resources Control Board.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - About 5,500 more people could survive a major tsunami hitting the Pacific Northwest if they just walk a little faster to higher ground after roads are knocked out, a new study shows. The report published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looked at 73 communities along 700 miles of coastline in Oregon, Washington and Northern California. The area is considered most at risk from the next major earthquake and tsunami in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where two plates of the Earth's crust come together miles off the coast. Emergency preparedness experts...

YREKA (CBS/AP) – Supervisors in a far Northern California county where residents are fed up with what they see as a lack of representation at the state capitol and overregulation have voted in favor of separating from the state. . . They want other rural counties in Northern California and Southern Oregon to join them in the creation of a new state called the State of Jefferson.

A pair of blustery, soaking storms will stream into Northern California beginning Friday, bringing as much as 10 inches of rain south and east of the Bay Area by Christmas Day and setting up potentially difficult travel conditions for those escaping for the holidays. Though computer weather models differ on the exact trajectory and strength of the two separate weather systems, meteorologists are bracing for sizable amounts of rain and the possibility that some rivers might overrun their banks. "No matter how you slice it, it's going to be a significant weather event," said Rob Hartman, lead hydrologist with the...

We want to thank you for visiting our website! We plan on bringing some of the most prolific and beautiful warbird / air racer vintage aircraft to Petaluma to be hosted by the sponsors on Sunday Nov 11 between 8:30 A.M. and 2 P.M. The sponsors are cordially invited to view aircraft up close and personal. You will have a chance to meet active test pilots, air racers, airshow performers, and veterans who have served our country to preserve freedom. Between 1-2 P.M. you will have a chance to see these beautiful aircraft take to the skies for formation fly...

SAN FRANCISCO The construction is everywhere in San Francisco, as one high-rise after another has been approved by the city, and about to be built. Chronicle Writer Marshall Kilduff has covered the city since growth was a dirty word. "20 years ago, 30 years ago when you had these high-rise fights, you had a much more homogenous town. Little neighborhoods, people who remembered things, landmarks were always under the gun," Kilduff recalled. CBS 5 asked if the skyscrapers would have been approved 20 years ago. "Never," Kilduff said. "We had 5, 6 ballot fights. Not (each of them) won. But...

Hello Everyone Alert to all freepers in Northern California. The Davis College Republicans and the Davis Young Americans for Freedom are planning a Support/Thank the Troops Rally on the UC Davis Memorial Union Patio adjacent to the quad from noon to 1PM on Wed April 23, 2003. I encourage you all to come out. We are still in the planning stages right now but we are determined. You can go to ucdavis.edu to find a campus map and parking information. The campus is easy to find, right off of I-80 from San Francisco or Sacramento and directly of off Hwy...

Mystery reptile loose in county? By Katharhynn Heidelberg Journal Staff Writer Cortez, CO, July 30 - Could the Southwest be home to a mysterious new species of reptile? Nick Sucik, a private researcher from Minnesota, thinks it's possible. Sucik has been tracking sightings of an elusive lizard-like creature ever since hearing tales of "river dinosaurs" from those involved in the legally sketchy "reptile trade." The "dino" is said to walk exclusively on its hind legs; to stand about 3 feet tall; and to have armlike appendages instead of forelegs. The reptile usually is seen near a wet environment and moves...

<p>Before embarking on an intense spiritual retreat last week, Kirsten "Kris" Babcock gave each of her closest friends a handwritten note describing her impending death.</p> <p>She was talking in symbolic terms -- or so she thought.</p> <p>In an eerily tragic turn of events, Babcock did not survive the "death sweat" she wrote about -- a ceremony intended to be the first step toward spiritual enlightenment as part of a new-age program called vision quest.</p>

<p>A little-known $3.46 billion bond measure to buy coastal lands and improve water quality has landed on the statewide ballot for November amid criticism that it is skewed toward environmental priorities and projects in Southern California.</p> <p>The initiative -- called the Water Security, Clean Drinking Water, Coastal and Beach Protection Act of 2002 by its proponents -- was drafted principally by Joe Caves, an environmental lawyer and lobbyist in Sacramento, and is backed by the Nature Conservancy and Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.</p>

TRUCKEE -- Police were digging in search of human remains Wednesday near the Truckee vacation home of a former Fremont priest accused of child molestation -- a man who lived a few blocks from Amber Swartz when that 7-year-old girl disappeared from outside her Pinole home in 1988. Investigators from several jurisdictions dug first by hand and then with heavy equipment at Stephen Miller Kiesle's property, focused on spots where cadaver-detecting dogs had picked up scents a day earlier, Pinole Police Commander John Miner said. "We couldn't help but think about the Amber case when we were doing this," he...

If you live in Northern California... Join us! This may be the biggest FReep of the year. Don't let the left have its way.Click here for link to time/ place /info Sorry for the repost...Just trying to get the word out... Free Beer***Drugs***Sex***Rock & Roll (see the left-wing wackos for this)