Vacaville man is blind, homeless and schizophrenic. Why can't California help him?
Submitted by kelly on Mon, 08/15/2022 - 11:03am“I think that’s him,” Linda Privatte says as we creep down Monte Vista Avenue, looking in all the usual spots for her younger brother, James Mark Rippee, who has been living on the streets right around the Solano County Building here for 15 years now. It is Mark, kneeling beside the 7-Eleven, feeling around on the sidewalk for the debit card he keeps losing.