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  • Benicians for Clean Elections September 29, 2022
  • Valero’s 2018-2022 Big-Money Effort to Control Benicia City Council September 28, 2022
  • Larnie Fox: Clearing up a Misconception September 27, 2022
  • Seenos, Grayson, Concord Police join with Christian Nationalist PAC to support Concord Council candidate September 24, 2022
  • Kathy Kerridge: Kari Birdseye is competent, intelligent, hard-working… September 23, 2022
  • Lisa Reinertson: Kari Birdseye Sees the Big Picture September 21, 2022
  • Menacing threat to Vallejo (and Benicia): Greenland’s rapidly shrinking ‘zombie ice’ September 11, 2022
  • Watered-Down Bill to Punish Refinery Pollution Gets Scrapped After Oil Industry Pushback September 10, 2022
  • Wow! Benicia artists create dozens of yard signs for Kari Birdseye & Terry Scott September 7, 2022
  • Benicians for Clean Elections: An open letter to Valero September 6, 2022
  • Nikki Basch Davis: Remember! …and vote for Birdseye and Scott September 5, 2022
  • President Lincoln’s Historic Benicia Arsenal in Peril – Former Mayor Elizabeth Patterson September 2, 2022
  • Mark & Nathalie Christian: Who’s Afraid of Kari Birdseye? September 2, 2022
  • Latest ‘Our Voices’ – With the right approach to learning August 29, 2022
  • Progressive Democrats of Benicia endorse Kari Birdseye, Terry Scott August 27, 2022
  • Benicia Library to host Readings & Conversations August 22, 2022
  • Jarrod Slate: Kari Birdseye, Truly a Voice for the People August 21, 2022
  • ‘Tonight, the nation marks the end of the Republican Party’ August 17, 2022
  • Benicia Council Candidate Kari Birdseye: ‘Time for new leadership’ August 15, 2022
  • Renewal of Benicia’s Urban Growth Boundary August 14, 2022
  • Larnie Fox: Trusting Kari Birdseye August 13, 2022
  • Terry Scott running for Benicia council to bring ‘overdue change’ August 13, 2022
  • BBLM Interview with Benicia Library Director Jennifer Baker August 8, 2022
  • COVID UPDATE – What it’s like now – are we in the endemic stage? August 6, 2022
  • Benicia poets appear in “Yearning To Breathe Free – A Community Journal of 2020” August 5, 2022
  • Susan Street: Kari Birdseye & Terry Scott for Benicia City Council August 4, 2022
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