Congress has opportunity to protect Grand Canyon region
An overlook of the Grand Canyon. (Photo by Tim Brown/Courtesy Bureau of Reclamation)
The Grand Canyon Protection Act was recently introduced by U.S. Rep. Raύl Grijalva and passed in the House and has been introduced in the Senate by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. The bills will permanently protect about 1 million acres of public lands surrounding Grand Canyon from the harmful and lasting damage of new uranium mining.
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Three LGBTQ community leaders have won appointment to San Francisco s Immigrant Rights Commission, helping to double queer representation on the civic advisory body. At its March 9 meeting, the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted 11-0 to seat the trio of out applicants along with three straight people seeking to be reappointed.
Commissioner Jessy Ruiz Navarro, who is originally from Mexico and the advisory body s lone transgender member, secured her reappointment. When she joined in 2019 Navarro was the panel s first commissioner whose primary language isn t English.
Joining the commission is artist Lucia Obregon Matzer, a queer immigrant from Guatemala who became a U.S. citizen four years ago, and gay Walnut Creek resident Luis Zamora, who works in San Francisco as a facilities supervisor at law firm Morgan Lewis & Brockus LLP and is the current public policy chair for the Golden Gate Business Association, the country s oldest LGBTQ chamber of commerce.
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A mother bear and her cubs make a dangerous journey across Interstate 40. Susan Detwiler photo
Growing up in eastern Kentucky, Frances Figart loved any chance to glimpse the diverse wildlife species roaming those Appalachian foothills except when the sightings occurred after the creatures had become roadkill, something that occurred all too frequently. She felt their deaths keenly.
“I can remember when I was a young driver running over a snake once, and I was so upset by that one individual death that I just turned around and went home and didn’t go to my job,” she said. “I called in sick and I just really took it personally.”