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SHOCKING: Solano county - You Need To See This

The eyewitness to the ‘Zizians’ murder was murdered weeks before the trial started. Now the only other witness is dying and has lost his memory

Patrick McMillan, 81, testified vividly about the day his ‘best friend’ Curtis Lind was stabbed with a samurai sword — but often struggled to remember details

The Independent UK

The controversial California city backed by tech elite has a new plan: boats

California Forever is back with a proposal that has some on board: using the land it owns to create a shipbuilding hub

The Guardian - US

Quality video shows CHP helicopter rescuing hiker in Solano County this weekend

Precision skills are required to extract the injured hiker

Advnture

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California Forever, Forever

The company needs a lot of government permission slips to build its planned new city in the Bay Area. It's now changing the order in which it asks for them.

Reason

Silicon Valley-backed voter plan for a new California city won't be on the November ballot after all

A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area on land now zoned for agriculture won’t be on the Nov. 5 ballot after all

The Independent UK

The secret futuristic city being built by tech billionaires in California

California Forever has bold plans, hundreds of millions in capital invested, and some of the biggest names in tech backing its vision of a brand new city outside of San Francisco – but can it convince skeptical voters to see the light? Josh Marcus reports

The Independent UK

Billionaires spent $800m snapping up California farms. Their mystery plan for a ‘utopian city’ is drawing suspicion

Secretive venture capitalists spent six years buying up farmland in Solano County with the dream of constructing an eco-friendly hamlet of the future, but not everyone is convinced, writes Joe Sommerlad

The Independent UK

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Ranchers decry ‘arrogant’ Silicon Valley billionaires buying up land for ‘fantasy’ city near San Francisco: ‘We are now totally surrounded’

“If they want a new city, San Jose is ripe. Fix what’s there," suggested a Solano County rancher.

Fortune

Tech titans’ vision for a new city in Northern California raises concerns

Silicon Valley tech tycoons on Thursday announced their intentions of building a new city in Northern California. The billionaire investors have to date spent over $900 million to acquire more than 50,000 acres of land in Solano County. Local and US officials, however, have raised concerns about what one Congressman…

France 24

Billionaires want to build a new city in rural California. They must convince voters first

Silicon Valley investors behind a secretive $800 million land-buying spree got off to a rocky start with the voters they need to build a green new city in Northern California

The Independent UK

Billionaire group under scrutiny for plan to build ‘utopian city’ in California

Congressman says there would be a ‘whole bunch of hurdles’ the group would have to clear in order to build their city

The Independent UK

Tech heavyweights, dissatisfied with San Francisco, are planning their own enclaves—following a tradition among wealthy Americans

Silicon Valley elites like Mark Moritz, Reid Hoffman, and Laurene Powell Jobs are over the city—and have put $800 million toward a new one

Fortune

Air Force Probes Land Acquisitions By Flannery Associates Amid Security Concerns

Foreign interests suspected as largest landowner in California's Solano County raises questions.

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