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Jewish cemeteries and community centers have been facing white-supremacist hate of late, and Trump’s at it again with his second executive order aiming to ban Muslims from the United States, under the guise of counterterrorism. In response, organizations around the country are stepping up their efforts at Muslim-Jewish alliances in these troubling times. Muslims have been scrubbing swastikas off desecrated Jewish tombstones, and Jews have linked arms in defense of mosques and against the anti-Muslim violence in Texas and Canada. These efforts come to Santa Rosa today, March 15, as the “Of One Soul” campaign of the Interfaith Council of Sonoma County hosts an event with speakers of various faiths coming together on the steps of City Hall in Santa Rosa. The Rev. David Parks-Ramage from the First Congregational United Church of Christ joins Aisha Morgan of the Islamic Networks Group and Reb Irwin Keller of the Ner Shalom Congregation. Local elected officials have also committed to the event, which was called by the organization Interfaith Witness in Support of Our Muslim Neighbors. Santa Rosa mayor Chris Coursey and councilmember Julie Combs have both committed to the event, along with Sonoma County Supervisor Susan Gorin. There’s music at 5pm and the speakers get going at 5:30. Organizers ask that attendees consider it a holy gathering. “Please let your signs and words be child-friendly,” they say in a statement, “and reflect what we
want to invite into the world at this moment.” In other words, leave the “Tuck Frump” signage at home, at least for now.
Tuck Frump The Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act has hit a few bumps on the road to throwing 24 million people off their insurance by 2026, as the Congressional Budget Office reported this week. Now the California Senate has unsurprisingly chimed in with Resolution 26 which calls on Congress to “reject the ACA repeal unless it’s replaced with a plan that ensures that not one American will lose coverage and that coverage will be more affordable and of higher quality for all Americans.”
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high for small businesses, it may be too low if corporate entities like Philip Morris or Monsanto get into the pot business, Logan says. “Five years from now, we’re going to be dealing with a whole different set of players than we’ve ever dealt with,” she says. It will take a concerted local effort to keep those large-scale players at bay and defend local regulations, she says. Even with the low tax rate, some growers hoping to make a go in the legal market face an uphill battle. “It almost pushes me out of the legal market because I’m so small-scale I don’t know how I would be able to afford to stay in it the way it’s being taxed,” says a West County grower of the new taxes. He says many growers his size feel like small organic farmers being pitted against large conventional growers. “The tax per square foot is still going to put a lot of people out of business,” he says. Some growers are contemplating pushing for one more big season on the black market before they look for work with larger operations or get out of business altogether, he says. For her part, 5th District Sonoma County supervisor Lynda Hopkins says she’s eager to work with the industry on “phase two,” the county’s term for implementation of the tax and the regulatory regime. She says she recognizes the floating tax rate is a cause of concern, but that flexibility can be a benefit because it allows the county to adjust to changing conditions. She said zoning decisions can be reexamined again, too. “That’s easy to revisit,” says Hopkins. She says she’s in conversation with the SCGA and other growers to find a way to support smallscale cannabis businesses, many of which operate in the 5th district she represents. “I’m hoping to earn their trust.”