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RECAP: Twentynine Palms Tourism Business Improvement District, June 18, 2025
TBID votes to pause the conversion process under the 1994 Property and Business Improvement District Law, and the City Manager announces a new shuttle…
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Eleanor Whitney
Senate Floats Auction of 1000s of Acres of Morongo Basin Public Land
Land near Section 6 and other local landmarks placed on BLM land privatization chopping block
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Jonathan Hume
2
OPINION: No Kings Protest Spotlights Democracy
Marchers brave summer heat in downtown Joshua Tree to make good trouble
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Kat Talley-Jones
8
RECAP: Twentynine Palms City Council Meeting, June 10, 2025
A marathon of speculative budgeting ended on Tuesday when the Council successfully passed three budgets before July 1, but the community events funding…
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Anita Carraher
 and 
Cindy Bernard
2
Summer is here and the meetings are...light
Our compilation of the City of Twentynine Palms 2025 summer meeting schedule
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Cindy Bernard
1

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RECAP: Twentynine Palms Tourism Business Improvement District, June 18, 2025
TBID votes to pause the conversion process under the 1994 Property and Business Improvement District Law, and the City Manager announces a new shuttle…
 • 
Eleanor Whitney
RECAP: Twentynine Palms City Council Meeting, June 10, 2025
A marathon of speculative budgeting ended on Tuesday when the Council successfully passed three budgets before July 1, but the community events funding…
 • 
Anita Carraher
 and 
Cindy Bernard
2
Summer is here and the meetings are...light
Our compilation of the City of Twentynine Palms 2025 summer meeting schedule
 • 
Cindy Bernard
1

Desert Developments

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29 Palms Planning provides key boost to proposed Ofland Hotel resort development near Indian Cove
Mitigated Negative Declaration means Ofland could avoid costly Environmental Impact Report, public comment due June 2
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Jonathan Hume
2024 Development Recap
Residents push back against resort, residential and solar projects in Twentynine Palms, Joshua Tree, Flamingo Heights and Landers
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Cindy Bernard
, 
Natalie Zuk
, 
Jonathan Hume
, 
Kat Talley-Jones
, and 
Ravensworth
3
The Return of the Rabbit Virus?
Good News / Bad News about Dead Rabbits in the Morongo Basin
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Kat Talley-Jones
1

National issues / Local impacts

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Wildlife Wednesday

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