Just received renewal information from Kaiser. For reference I am turning 27 in November and my plan is the Minimum Coverage HMO. My company does not pay for any benefits at all so I pay out of pocket for everything.

2026 monthly premium - $294.04

2027 monthly premium - $378.40

A 28.7% INCREASE

I'm currently in the process of interviewing for a county job in Marin for the benefits even though they have similar pay. The benefits alone outweigh the costs.

Has anyone else received a rate increase like this? This seems insane.

Hey Santa Rosa gang!

I've had a lot of ideas over the years, and I've REALLY wanted to share them. Some good, some bad. Plenty I've built, plenty I've forgotten, and a few I got talked out of.

Years ago I ran a meetup here around Raspberry Pi and automated systems and was able to meet some really interesting people from different walks of life with all types of ideas and expertise! I want to do that again, but way more open ended. These days I'm "dipping nuggets you've never heard of into sauces you could never fathom." My interests have spread far past pure tech: bees, woodworking, music, gardens, weird data art, voice acting, sustainability, magic and whimsy.

So I'm looking for artists, builders, bakers, developers, improvisers, philosophers, psychologists, tinkerers, eccentrics, designers, writers, chemists, etc. Anyone curious who likes making things and talking to people unlike themselves.

I’d love to get people together and see if there is something we can build together, or a problem we can solve eventually. Or at the very least, have a safe place to share our interesting projects and special variety of knowledge. But the end goal is to accomplish something either with the help of, the the inspiration of this group!

The idea is to connect people and find a community around projects, and I envision this as getting in on the ground floor. I have all types of plans depending on where the group takes us.

I built a little website as part personal project resume, part call to action. Scroll through, see what I'm about, and if "it" clicks or something caught your attention, drop your name and info in the contact form. First hang will be casual for vibes sake.

Let me know either on here, or at the end of the site you can send me a message that goes pretty direct. I'd love to gauge the interest from the community here!

I will be starting a new job in Santa Rosa next week and will be commuting over an hour from the east bay. I have a 20 foot camping trailer that I’d like to park in or around Santa Rosa to occasionally spend the night there so that I don’t have to commute quite as much in the evening and morning. The ideal location would also have a yard for my dog during the days she’s with me. Let me know if you or someone you know has a place to rent, thanks!

Rounded up this weekend's events. Add anything I missed.

All weekend

• Black Cod Week — starts Saturday and runs through Oct 25, times vary, restaurants around Sonoma County
• "Growing Our Future" Flower Show & Plant Sale — Fri–Sat 9 am–4 pm, Graton Community Club, Graton (free)
• Blind Scream Haunted House — Fri–Sun 7 pm, Santa Rosa ($25–$50)
• Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live shadow cast — Fri–Sat 10 pm, Phoenix Theater, Petaluma ($10)
• Hitchcock Film Festival — Fri–Sat, times vary, Bodega Bay Grange Hall, Bodega Bay
• The Witching Hour Halloween Pole Showcase — Fri–Sat 6:30 pm, Bastet Dance Fitness, Rohnert Park ($15)
• Art Trails: Sonoma County Open Studios — Sat–Sun 10 am–5 pm, 160 artists' studios around Sonoma County (free)
• Art Trails at the Art & Music Gallery — Sat–Sun 10 am–5 pm, Petaluma (free)

Friday

• The Art of Botanical Syrups and Shrubs with Land + Local — 4–6 pm, Gather Sebastopol ($150)
• Sebastopol City Council Candidate Forum — 6–8 pm, Grange Hall Sebastopol (free)
• Ross Street Sessions: School of Rock House Band — 6 pm, Ross Street, Santa Rosa (free)
• Family Friday: Hocus Pocus at Rio Nido Roadhouse — 6:30–8:30 pm, Rio Nido Roadhouse, all ages (free)
• Raiatea Helm: A Legacy of Hawaiian Song & String — 7:30 pm, Green Music Center, Rohnert Park ($31–$91)
• Forbidden Kiss LIVE – Chaos — 7:30 pm, The California Theatre, Santa Rosa ($20–$30)
• Velvet's Mini Burlesque Variety Show — 7:30 pm, 104 N. Main Street, Sebastopol ($25–$45)
• Froggy's 30th Birthday: Corey Kent with Max Vogel — 8 pm, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
• Shoplifters United — 8 pm, The Big Easy, Petaluma ($10)
• The Traveling Wilburys Revue — 8 pm, Mystic Theatre, Petaluma ($27.32)
• Tokes & Jokes with Gina Stahl-Haven — 8 pm, Mercy Wellness Lounge, Cotati ($25–$200, 21+)

Saturday

• NAMIWalks Sonoma County — 10 am–1:30 pm, Howarth Park, Santa Rosa (free)
• Fort Ross Harvest Festival — 10 am–4:30 pm, Fort Ross State Historic Park, Jenner
• Open Cockpit at the Pacific Coast Air Museum — 10 am–4 pm, Santa Rosa
• Trick-or-Treatment at the Laguna Treatment Plant — 10 am–2 pm, Santa Rosa, Halloween open house at the wastewater plant (free)
• Trashlantis! — 11 am–5 pm, Sebastopol Community Cultural Center's Youth Annex (free)
• The SoCo Halloween Market — 12–5 pm, Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa (free)
• It's the Great Pumpkin 60th Anniversary at the Schulz Museum — 1–5 pm, Charles M. Schulz Museum, Santa Rosa
• Pie in the Park — 2–5 pm, downtown Forestville (free)
• Pumpkins on Pikes at Tara Firma Farms — 2–9 pm, Petaluma
• Thy Neighbor: Local Documentary Film — 2–4 pm, SRJC Student Activities Center, Santa Rosa, with a filmmaker Q&A
• The Northern Still — 2:30 pm, Murphy's Irish Pub & Restaurant, Sonoma
• Take 3 Jazz Trio — 3 pm, Spicy Vines, Healdsburg
• Vinyl Tap — 5 pm, Brewsters Beer Garden, Petaluma
• Poesía del Recuerdo – Poetry of Remembrance — 6–8 pm, Petaluma Historical Library & Museum (free, RSVP may be required)
• Downtown Sound: The Psychedelic Fuzz — 6 pm, Ross Street, Santa Rosa (free)
• Temple Step Project — 7 pm, Laguna Lab, Sebastopol ($25)
• Careless Whisper — 8 pm, Flamingo Resort, Santa Rosa ($21.11–$29.48)
• Hell Heim – Near Dark — 8 pm, The California Theatre, Santa Rosa ($17–$20)
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus — 8:30 pm, Mystic Theatre, Petaluma ($37.18)
• Glitter and Gore, Redwood Ice Theatre — 9 pm, Snoopy's Home Ice, Santa Rosa ($28.44)
• Mistah FAB & Philthy Rich — 9 pm, Barrel Proof Lounge, Santa Rosa ($18.81–$109.42)

Sunday

• Jazz in the Plaza — 1 pm, Putnam Plaza, Petaluma
• Pazifico — 1 pm, Rio Nido Roadhouse
• Spooky (Not Scary!) Sunday Screening: E.T. — 2–5 pm, Ross Street, Santa Rosa (free)
• Symphony Pops: A Tribute to John Williams — 3 pm, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
• Jazz Mafia: Stevie Wonder Reimagined — 3 pm, HopMonk Tavern, Sebastopol ($30.57)
• Ingrid Michaelson — 7–9 pm, Green Music Center, Rohnert Park ($61–$121)
• 2026 Norbay Theater Awards — 7 pm, The California Theatre, Santa Rosa (free)

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looking for stores or places to get bones !!

i know about dark hearts vintage and oddities but is there any other place ? im looking for stuff like jaws and skulls

plsss let me know !!

About 1350 square feet, plus a 2-car garage. No fancy details or complex shapes - basically an 'L' with two pitched roofs that meet one another, and it needs some trim replaced and some stucco repaired or patched. What should I expect to get ready to pay?

We're also going to need a roof in a few years and if I can, I'll do that now. Any guesses?

Hey! I've just started disc golfing (I'm terrible at it!) and it seems like a fun group activity. Let's make some friends!

Anyone want to meet at 11am at Crane Creek Regional Park at 10am for a round? I have an extra frisbee, but you need one they're available at Sports Basement for $10-$15. There is a parking fee ($6?), which is covered by the Sonoma County parks pass permit if you have it.

Me: 34m, backpacker and improv-comedy lover, working in the legal field, bass-player, occasionally active in progressive politics.

DM or reply!

Bike out to Sebastopol for a festival on Saturday. Trashion show signups are open until right up to the show.

Favorite place to grab fun cocktails in Santa Rosa? Ideally it would be somewhere that has food, but all suggestions will be considered. Bonus points for a good happy hour.

Friday we are hosting an event for TK-2nd graders and expected some superhero cosplayers to be there. Unfortunately the group we had worked with in the past are not able to make it.
Any cosplayers interested in a morning with a bunch of little kids that would love to give high fives while running laps? Friday 9ish-noonish in Windsor

A set of golf clubs was found in Southwest Santa Rosa today. Most likely stolen as they were found stashed in our street-side trees for a later retrieval.

PM me with specific details and/or proof of ownership to be reunited with your clubs!

The report, by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, found the more than 21,000 undocumented immigrants in Sonoma County generate an estimated $2.3 billion in economic activity, pay nearly $1 billion in state and federal taxes and comprise nearly 30% of agricultural jobs, 19% of administrative jobs and 13% of service jobs.

Apparently hundreds of people showed up! So proud of the kids for not just capitulating to the will of these old cronies.

Looking for 4 female/3 male softball players for a tournament in Sebastopol this weekend. First game is Friday at 6pm, Saturday and Sunday TBD. Message me if your interested.

Why would I want to vote Yes on Measure L when Santa Rosa sales tax is already one of the highest in the state?

Santa Rosa City Council wants us to vote on increasing our sales tax. This would keep an existing sales tax and add an additional 0.50%. It's hard enough living in this city and now they want us to pay more because of the council’s inability to budget properly and their spending excessive amounts of money on Flock Cameras.

What reason is there to vote to increase sales tax?

This is traffic right now.
Listening to city council meeting, a drive thru wouldn’t work right here

Hey everyone!

If anyone is looking for a unique date night or something fun to do next weekend, we’re putting on an intimate live stand-up comedy showcase inside the underground wine cave at Deerfield Ranch Winery in Kenwood on Saturday, October 24th.

The show takes place 50 feet underground surrounded by aging oak barrels in their 23,000 sq. ft. cave.

5:30 PM: Doors open, Deerfield wine bar pouring, and food available outside on the patio.

7:00 PM: Showtime inside the cave (featuring touring Bay Area club regular Alvin Duke Reid along with a solid supporting lineup).

Seating inside the cave is strictly limited to keep the room dynamic intimate. Tickets are normally $25, but I set up a 15% discount for the sub using code CAVE15 (capped at 10 uses).

Dropping the link and ticket details in the comments below for anyone interested! Happy to answer any questions about the venue or setup.

I have a 6th grader who has been at the same elementary school his entire school experience thus far. He’s had some minor instances with bullying due to his ADHD & mild ASD but it was always handled by teachers for the most part. He’s a little socially different but otherwise fits in in class and is capable of making friends. But bullying has happened and is on my mind in this post.

My concern is that next year is middle school, and the options are basically entering a raffle to enroll him at Spring Lake Middle School for 7th and 8th, or sending him at 12 years old to a high school campus to attend “middle school.” From some parents, I’ve heard bullying is actually pretty bad at Spring Lake Middle. From others, I’ve heard anxiety that young kids are among 18 year olds, and bullying could be worse on high school campuses. And yet others have said their kids have done well at the high school and at least they wouldn’t have to adapt to a new school after two years.

I’d like to hear anything from parents of middle schoolers who have experience at either the middle school or the high schools, or high schoolers on here who see middle schoolers at their school and how they’re treated being so young. What have you heard about bullying at the middle school or high schools? Talk to me, this is all new to me, I attended middle & high school in L.A. so I don’t have personal experience at any of the schools in Santa Rosa.

So does anybody know the process and how this is gonna look like for a first time offense. Please if you had one reply to this post and let me know the process. I have court Nov 12

Hi Sonoma County,

I'm Cecilia Sofranko, the Vice Chair of the Commission on Human Rights. We've seen the amount of interest around Flock in the county, and we wanted to create a forum for community conversation. We formed an ad hoc with the goal to make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors and possibly local City Councils after we listen to the public's concerns at our event.

We have a panel of local law enforcement officials as well as city council and Supervisor Lynda Hopkins, and the director of research from Oakland Privacy. The program will begin with pre-submitted questions with the hopes of getting some of the big/common questions out of the way, and then it'll open up for public comment.

We have just changed locations for additional capacity, and will be offering a live stream on Zoom as well. Spanish interpretation provided.

RSVPing is strongly encouraged. You can do so here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alpr-flock-community-forum-sonoma-county-commission-on-human-rights-tickets-2002759649023

You can submit questions ahead of time here: https://forms.gle/VxFqk3MtwCFPrVp17

We hope to see you there!

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