3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (624+ words) In two of Novato City Council’s five districts, voters have choices in deciding who will represent their neighborhoods. In both elections, the incumbents are seeking to retain their posts. In District 2, Rachel Farac, currently the mayor, is seeking a second…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (109+ words) Marin Independent Journal Parents of elementary school students in San Rafael City Schools will be able to exclude their children from classroom activities they feel violate their religious beliefs. Read the story Marin nears resolution on troubled San Rafael cemetery…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (590+ words) As a pediatrician and an elementary school teacher, we see Marin County children at two different stages of their lives: one caring for children’s health through some of their most important years of growth and development; the other welcoming children…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1042+ words) On an August morning two years ago, Meredith Melville was crossing Piedmont Avenue in Oakland to meet a friend at a cafe. While in the crosswalk, she noticed a car some distance away. Perhaps she misjudged its speed, Melville said,…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (548+ words) This election year there are multiple Marin offices where only one candidate filed for each available post. Their names don’t appear on the ballot as they are automatically elected. There are multiple factors behind uncontested elections. That happened at Mill…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (611+ words) The California Legislature has a bad habit of enacting high-profile measures in the moment, responding to trendy issues or demands from powerful interests, without considering potentially adverse consequences. Legislators assume that everything they do has only positive effects — otherwise they…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (696+ words) Marin supervisors are wading into the tall weeds of data security. It’s for good reason. There is concern whether private digital data collected and stored by the county can be electronically mined and misused by others. So supervisors want to…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (361+ words) I’ve lost count of how many times San Rafael officials have asked voters for “just one more tax” to protect essential services. Measure W on the November ballot is the latest, and it’s not a small tax: It would increase…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (326+ words) He declined to comment on the circumstances of his departure, which came just five months after he was brought back to the Justice Department to help oversee a loosely defined investigation targeting former government officials who over the last decade…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (491+ words) On that Tuesday morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Marin residents woke up to televised accounts of an horrific and unforgettable sight – a jetliner flying into one of the towers of New York’s World Trade Center, an iconic skyscraper. It was no accident....