By Bill PicturePublished: October, 2010 On August 25, a proposed rule banning the discharge of sewage from cruise ships and many other large oceangoing vessels within three miles of the California shore was signed by United States Environmental Protection Agency Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld at a press conference held at San Francisco’s […]
Published: November, 2017 Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) is the Bay Area’s newest passenger rail service, providing a new option to avoid the weekday highway 101 gridlock from highway 37 to Santa Rosa. The initial 43-mile system, which began service in late August, includes stations in the Sonoma County Airport area, Santa Rosa, Rohnert […]
By Captain RayPublished: June, 2008 Drake’s Golden Hind was the first English ship into the Pacific Ocean, and the Spanish were not prepared for his arrival. After entering the Pacific through the Straits of Magellan near the southern tip of South America, he pillaged and plundered his way north. Within six months, he was off […]
