County seeking member for Headwaters Fund Board

Posted on: December 22, 2015

County seeking member for Headwaters Fund Board

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The County of Humboldt is recruiting for a new member for the Headwaters Fund Board, the community body overseeing all aspects of the Headwaters Fund. The new board member will begin service in February.

Interested individuals are encouraged to apply. Working with Fund staff, board members review and recommend policies, budgets, grants, and loans to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors.

Qualified applicants must possess the necessary experience and expertise to oversee this large and unique public fund. The successful applicant will demonstrate a commitment to the community and economic development, skills to oversee a grant and loan fund, and the ability to bridge multiple interests to serve the goals of the Headwaters Fund.

The Headwaters Fund facilitates economic development in Humboldt County through loan and grant programs. Applicants will be interviewed by a screening committee who will recommend candidates to the Board of Supervisors for appointment.

Interested applicants may obtain an application and further information online at the Headwaters Fund website or the Prosperity Center, 520 E Street, Eureka.

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2016 Senate control update

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Ralph,

I wanted to give you an update on some of our MVPs.

You remember our MVPs, right? They’re the Democrats running in must-win Senate races next year, and today, I’m asking you to help them out.

If you’ve heard enough and you’re ready to stop reading this email and get on with your day, click here to contribute.

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So, like I was saying — our MVPs are all fighting for Senate seats that matter to the GOP. These are seats the Republicans and outside groups will fight for, and we all know what that means.

(It means an avalanche of attack ads. I probably didn’t need to tell you that, but I wanted to be really clear.)

If you remember our MVPs or you’ve been keeping up with their races, you can help us by pitching in $5.

Without further ado, our update:

Catherine Cortez Masto

  • Catherine is the former Attorney General of Nevada, and she’s running to fill the seat Harry Reid is leaving. Her race is a dead heat, and outside groups have already spent more than $1.2 million attacking her.

Jason Kander

  • Jason is the Secretary of State in Missouri. Now he’s running a tough race for U.S. Senate. His opponent raised a bunch of money in the second quarter this year, but our MVP has closed the gap — he was within five points in a recent poll with 25% undecided. We can give him the boost he needs to take the lead.

Ted Strickland

  • Ted is running in Ohio, and I’m not even going to mention how critical the Ohio ground game will be in 2016. Next November, Ted’s team will face one of the most important get-out-the-vote jobs in the country. But as the state’s former Governor and as a former Congressman, I know he and his team are up to the task. Let’s help them build their strength.

Maggie Hassan

  • Maggie is the current Governor of New Hampshire. Right now, she’s running in an absolute dead heat — an October poll showed Maggie and her opponent locked 1 point apart. Again, standing together could mean the difference between victory and defeat.

There you go, a not-that-quick update on our MVPs. Thanks for continuing to support them.

Al

P.S. In case you haven’t contributed yet, there’s always my patented extra ask in the P.S. — give $5 to support our MVPs now.

 

 

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Colorado State University

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Harvard U Professor Calestous Juma to talk Agriculture in Africa at CSU Nov. 12

FORT COLLINS – Nearly 60 percent of the world’s available arable land is in Africa. The continent is banking on agriculture as a future resource and the land as a foundation for long-term economic transformation. But this focus coincides with new concerns about the impact of climate change on agriculture as well as on Africa’s biological diversity.

Harvard University’s Calestous Juma, former executive director of the United Nations Convention of Biological Diversity and director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at theBelfer Center for Science and International Affairs, will visit the Colorado State University campus to discuss the role that biological diversity could play in helping Africa pursue alternative agricultural strategies. Such approaches could address the need to increase food production, improve nutrition, reduce food losses, and help African nations participate in the global economy.

Juma’s lecture will be held in the Lory Student Center room 386, 5-6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12. A pre-lecture reception takes place 4-5 p.m. in the Virginia Dale Room of the LSC, near the North Ballroom.

The lecture is free of charge and open to the public, and is sponsored by CSU’s Africa Center and the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. You do not need to register to attend.

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Ralph,

Ann Kirkpatrick grew up in the White Mountains of Arizona and still wears the same boots she bought working as a waitress.

Patrick Murphy is a CPA from Florida, who beat a Tea Party powerhouse to get where he is today.

Michael Bennet is a former school superintendent of Denver Public Schools, who believes we have a moral obligation to make this country better for our kids.

At first, it might not seem like these three have a whole lot in common. But first impressions can be deceiving.

All three of them are champions for hardworking families. All three of them work tirelessly to fight for Democratic values. And all three of them have tough Senate elections coming up in 2016.

Ann, Patrick, and Michael are three of our biggest MVPs — and they need our support. So if you can, click a link and contribute $5 to help them build their campaigns.

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Ann, Patrick, and Michael have more in common, too — with each other and with us.

They want to protect Social Security and Medicare. So do we.

They want to reverse Citizens United and end the ridiculous flood of outside cash in our elections. We want that, too.

And all three want to help middle class families — in their states and across the country — get ahead.

Can’t argue with that, can we?

Ann, Patrick, and Michael are on our side — and we need to stand with them. Help our MVPs keep fighting for the things we all care about. Make a contribution today.

Thanks for doing your part to support our MVPs.

P.S.: My emails all have one thing in common, too — they have extra asks in the P.S. Just like this one — give $5, $10, or whatever you can to help Ann, Patrick, and Michael.

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National Medal of Science winner to speak at CSU on insects and plant biodiversity Nov. 1

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National Medal of Science winner to speak at CSU on insects and plant biodiversity Nov. 1

Note to Reporters: May Berenbaum’s talk, “Insects and wild parsnips: Coevolutionary arms races and peace treaties,” will be live streamed at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 1 on CSU’s news site, SOURCE, athttp://source.colostate.edu/thornton-massa/.

FORT COLLINS – Member of the National Academy of Sciences – check.

Winner of the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement – check.

Having the president of the United States personally give you the National
Medal of Science – check.

In a career that has seen numerous awards, accolades and achievements, May Berenbaum has been a public intellectual translating entomology for the general public, testifying before Congress on the disappearing honey bees, and guiding graduate and undergraduate students on the study of insects.

On Nov. 1, Berenbaum will travel to Colorado State University to deliver the Thornton-Massa lecture, an annual lecture focused on plant biodiversity. This year’s 16th Annual Thornton-Massa lecture will take place from 3:305 p.m. in the Lory Student Center Theater and is free and open to the public.

Berenbaum’s talk, “Insects and wild parsnips: Coevolutionary arms races and peace treaties,” will focus on the essential role that insects play in promoting plant biodiversity. Berenbaum has served as the head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois for more than 20 years and holds one of that university’s highest honors, a Swanlund Chair.

“As unlikely as it might seem, even after 40 years of study, this seemingly unremarkable interaction between a noxious roadside weed and its small, unprepossessing caterpillar associate continues to yield insights into all kinds of ecological and evolutionary issues,” said Berenbaum.

Raising awareness of honeybee decline

Among her many passions, Berenbaum has devoted considerable energy to examining recent declines in honeybee populations around the world. She chaired the National Academy of Sciences committee on the status of pollinators in North America and has helped increase public awareness of the honeybee decline. She has even appeared in documentaries on the bee decline, including Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? and Pollen Nation.

Berenbaum’s connections to popular culture go well beyond having her expertise featured in documentaries. She also created the Insect Fear Film Festival, an annual event in its 32nd year on the Illinois campus that addresses insect-related fear and loathing and the film industry’s penchant for casting insects as villains. In still another connection to popular culture, Berenbaum served as the inspiration for an entomologist on the TV series the X-Files, aptly named Bambi Berenbaum.

The real Berenbaum’s many other honors include her status as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Entomological Society of America. She is also an honorary fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

About the Thornton-Massa Lecture

The lecture honors the late Dr. Emil Massa of Denver and the late Bruce and Mildred Thornton, who shared a common interest in biodiversity, plant genetics, agriculture and horticulture. These commonalities led their families to endow an annual public lecture through the CSU College of Agricultural Sciences and the College of Natural Sciences.

Massa earned a medical degree in 1953 from Northwestern University and worked at Denver’s St. Joseph’s Hospital from 1960 to 1991. After retiring from orthopedic surgery, he spent much of his time feeding his love for plants at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

Bruce and Mildred Thornton shared a lifelong interest in and commitment to the study, identification and preservation of seeds. Mildred Thornton attended then-Colorado State College and, after receiving her master’s degree in botany, went to work as a junior botanist at the Federal Seed Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Bruce Thornton served on the Colorado State College faculty and the Agricultural Experiment Station staff from 1927-1962, and he headed the Colorado State Seed Laboratory from 1940 to 1961. They married in 1930, and when Bruce retired in 1961, Mildred took over the directorship of the State Seed Laboratory, where she had worked occasionally for 20 years.

For more information, visit thorntonmassa.colostate.edu.

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Sign the petition: STOP fracking on our public lands!

Dear MoveOn member,

Right now, our national forests and public lands are open to dangerous fracking. But I think we shouldn’t let the oil and gas industry destroy these treasured places for private profit.

Can you join me in calling on Congress to ban fracking on public lands? Click here to sign the petition, which says:

We must preserve our public lands for the long run in order to protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, the health of our communities, and our precious climate.

I urge you to support and co-sponsor Rep. Mark Pocan’s Protect Our Public Lands Act of 2015 (HR 1902).

Fracking has already caused serious damage to our public lands and precious climate. By the end of 2014, oil and gas companies had leases on over 34 million acres of public land, and over 200 million more acres are currently being targeted for drilling—even areas that surround America’s most precious National Parks and monuments.1

There is no amount of regulation that can make fracking safe. Regulated fracking still results in harm to people’s health, accidental spills of toxic waste, air pollution, earthquakes, drinking water contamination, habitat destruction, and worsening climate change.

In addition, the Government Accountability Office reports that the majority of high-risk oil and gas wells drilled between 2009 and 2012 have never been inspected.2 Public lands, nearby communities and our planet are paying the price.

The only way to protect the health of our communities, the integrity of our land, and the future of our planet from the risks of fracking is to ban fracking altogether.

Sign the petition to ask your members of Congress to ban all fracking on federal lands and co-sponsor Rep. Mark Pocan’s Protect Our Public Lands Act of 2015.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Sarah Alexander, Food & Water Watch

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1. “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of… Fracking?,” The Huffington Post, July 1, 2015
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2. “Interior Dept.: High-risk oil, gas wells checks lack funding,” Business Insider, September 15, 2015
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Concealed handguns don’t belong on college campuses

More than 22,000 gun-owning MoveOn members have launched a campaign for commonsense gun control, and we’re amplifying their voices on social media and elsewhere. But to go up against the National Rifle Association—and win—all of us need to speak up. That’s why we’re joining our friends at GunFreeKids.org to challenge the NRA and remove guns from school grounds. 

California just banned concealed handguns on school campuses—a major step toward protecting young people from gun violence.1 Can you keep up the momentum and urge Congress to pass a law to make it more difficult to carry guns onto campuses? Click here to add your name.


Dear MoveOn member,I’m Andy Pelosi of GunFreeKids.org, and I started a petition to Congress and President Obama, which says:

Nine people died and another nine were injured on Thursday, October 1 after a gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Our nation’s colleges, universities, and K-12 schools should be safe havens for learning and growth, where students, faculty, staff, and visitors need not worry about the threat of gun violence on their campuses. We call on our federal elected representatives to make it more difficult for people to carry concealed weapons on our campuses across the country. The answer to our gun violence problem is not the introduction of more weapons.

In response to the tragedy at Umpqua Community College and other places in our country, the extreme pro-gun movement continues to push their irrational and extremist agenda of promoting the carrying of loaded, concealed handguns on college campuses and K-12 schools as a solution to school shootings.

As a result, colleges in Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah, Texas, and Wisconsin have now been forced in different ways to allow the carrying of firearms on their premises. Similarly, K-12 schools in several states are now being forced to allow staff (barely trained, non-law enforcement) to carry concealed weapons inside buildings.

The overwhelming majority of the 4,400 colleges and universities in the United States prohibit the carrying of firearms on their campuses. These gun-free policies have helped to make our postsecondary-education institutions some of the safest places in the country.

Let’s keep concealed handguns off our nation’s campuses.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Andy Pelosi

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1. “California bans concealed handguns on college, school campuses,” The Sacramento Bee, October 10, 2015
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Deputy Secretary of Agriculture to visit campus and meet with students

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Deputy Secretary of Agriculture to visit campus and meet with students

FORT COLLINS – Founded as the Colorado Agricultural College in 1870, Colorado State University has a long history of collaboration with and support from the USDA. On Tuesday, Oct. 13, the second highest-ranking official in the USDA will come to Fort Collins and CSU to meet with university leaders and students. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Krysta Harden will spend part of the day learning about the educational and research programs within the CSU College of Agricultural Sciences and will engage with students who focus on developing solutions to the pressing issues in global agriculture.

“I’m excited to visit with the students at Colorado State University and hear their perspective on the future of agriculture,” said Harden. “As the average age of the American farmer continues to rise, it is more important than ever before that we give the next generation of farmers and ranchers the tools they need to succeed and lead our industry.”

In addition to meeting with CSU President Tony Frank and College of Agricultural Sciences Dean Ajay Menon, Harden will also host a roundtable discussion with CSU students focused on how the next generation of farmers and ranchers can help meet the needs of a growing global population. She also will tour the CSU Trial Garden and will visit the newly-built, state-of-the-art CSU Horticulture Center.

According to the Colorado Department of Agriculture, agriculture contributes $41 billion to the Colorado economy and employs nearly 173,000 people. Agricultural production – across a diverse spectrum of industries in Colorado – will play an essential role in meeting the food and fiber needs in Colorado, across the Unites States and around the world.

“We are delighted to host Deputy Secretary Harden here in Fort Collins,” said CSU President Tony Frank. “There is virtually no part of CSU that isn’t touched by agriculture – faculty and staff members in all of our colleges are involved in collaborations with their counterparts in the College of Agricultural Sciences in areas such as precision agriculture, business modelling and forecasting, and the ethical treatment of animals. We look forward to showing Deputy Secretary Harden the breadth of agricultural research and teaching on our campus and how we position our students to leave CSU prepared to tackle the global challenges in food security and availability, environmental sustainability, and resource conservation.”

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Media Advisory: CSU celebrates groundbreaking of chemistry research and biology buildings Oct. 15

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Media Advisory: CSU celebrates groundbreaking of chemistry research and biology buildings Oct. 15

Note to Reporters: Renderings of the biology and chemistry research buildings are available with the media advisory at http://www.newsinfo.colostate.edu/. Please contact Jennifer Dimas at 970-491-1543 or Jennifer.Dimas@colostate.edu for directions and parking passes.

FORT COLLINS – Colorado State University students, dignitaries and members of the campus community will officially celebrate the groundbreaking of the chemistry research and biology buildings at a ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 15 at the building site east of the Anatomy/Zoology building between Pitkin and Lake Streets on campus.

Featured speakers include CSU President Tony Frank, College of Natural Sciences Dean Jan Nerger, Associated Students of Colorado State University President Jason Sydoriak and University Facility Fee Advisory Board Chair Sam Laffey.

The biology building is the larger of the projects and will add 152,000 square feet of classroom, research and office space for a program that has been bursting at the seams for several years. The entire biology program will move from its current location in the Anatomy/Zoology building.

Students voted to increase fees to provide significant funding for the construction of the biology building. Fittingly, it is designed as a student-focused environment that encourages students to meet and work with classmates and faculty.

The chemistry research building will be 61,000 square feet, with most of it dedicated to synthetic chemistry research. The new space will allow CSU to expand research opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate students in a collaborative environment.

Although state funds will pay for much of the new chemistry research building, CSU will actively raise funds for both buildings, as well as for needed renovations within the existing chemistry building. Construction has already begun on the biology building, while work on the chemistry research building begins later this year. Both will be completed by fall 2017.

When the new buildings are in place, they will be the gateway to the new science mall in the south-central part of campus. These two new buildings exemplify the College of Natural Sciences’ theme “Discovery Begins Here.”

The public is invited to the groundbreaking at the site on the east side of the Anatomy and Zoology building. Additional information and a map can be found at www.natsci.colostate.edu/groundbreaking/.
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October 09, 2015   County Administrative Office

Governor signs Wood bill on Williamson Act

Alert PhotoGovernor Edmund G. Brown Jr. on Thursday signed AB 707, which makes sure the county is involved in negotiations over Williamson Act cancellation fees.… Read on
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