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Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), Benicia CA, Benicia City Council Member Kari Birdseye, Industrial Safety Ordinance (ISO), Keeping Watch on Earth News, Stephen Golub, Valero Benicia Refinery, Vice-Mayor Terry Scott

For Our Kids, Our Older Adults and All of Us: A Benicia Industrial Safety and Health Ordinance

By Stephen Golub, first published in the Benicia Herald on November 10, 2023 At 4 a.m. on June 21, 2019, a series of massive fires and explosions at a Philadelphia refinery sent both large amounts of toxic chemicals and huge chunks of debris into the air. One 19-ton fragment landed across the Schuylkill River, 2,000 … Continue reading For Our Kids, Our Older Adults and All of Us: A Benicia Industrial Safety and Health Ordinance →

Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), Benicia CA, Benicia City Council Member Kari Birdseye, Industrial Safety Ordinance (ISO), Keeping Watch on Earth News, Valero Benicia Refinery, Vice-Mayor Terry Scott

Moving Forward to Improve Benicia’s Industrial Safety and Health – An Open Letter to Benicia

On Sept 5, Benicia’s City Council unanimously initiated the first step of a process to assess the need to graduate the current Memo of Understanding (MOU) with Valero Benicia Refinery to an ordinance. This step, which asks staff review the MOU, underscores the importance of transition from an MOU to an ordinance that would provide … Continue reading Moving Forward to Improve Benicia’s Industrial Safety and Health – An Open Letter to Benicia →

Benicia, Benicia CA, Benicia High School, Benicia Police, Benicia Police Department, Benicia School Board, Benicia Unified School District, La Migra, Sheri Leigh

La Migra: Our Leaders United

By Sheri Leigh, October 13, 2023 I wanted to get a feel for where Benicia’s elected officials stood on the issue of the La Migra game. I met with Benicia Mayor Steve Young and Vice-Mayor Terry Scott together one afternoon in Mayor Young’s office at City Hall. I spoke to City Council member Kari Birdseye, … Continue reading La Migra: Our Leaders United →

Benicia, Benicia CA, Benicia High School, Benicia Police, Benicia Police Department, Benicia School Board, Benicia Unified School District, La Migra, Sheri Leigh

It’s been almost 20 weeks since Sheri Leigh first wrote about Benicia’s ‘La Migra’ games. What have we learned, and what’s next?

Sheri Leigh on what she’s learned about La Migra so far, and where we may want to go next By Sheri Leigh, September 22, 2023 Back in May 2023, I posted my concerns about a game the high school students in Benicia play, which they call La Migra. At its simplest level, it is a … Continue reading It’s been almost 20 weeks since Sheri Leigh first wrote about Benicia’s ‘La Migra’ games. What have we learned, and what’s next? →