OPINION By Royal Calkins If there is a pause button in the judicial process, a restart switch to inject fairness into a system often dominated by which side has the most money, it is time to engage it in connection …
OPINION By Paul Karrer In the last two months I’ve had a very close friend and a close neighbor take their own lives. Each took a very different path to their end. The friend (let’s call him Jurgen) I’ve known …
Art by Mara J. Reynolds This season, Voices' resident audio documentarians at Gray Area Podcast are introducing readers and listeners to some of our era's most important but perhaps lesser-known elders. They're people who've survived systemic injustice and historical trauma, …
Art by Mara J. Reynolds This season, Voices' resident audio documentarians at Gray Area Podcast are introducing readers and listeners to some of our era's most important but perhaps lesser-known elders. They're people who've survived systemic injustice and historical trauma, …
SPECIAL REPORT By Royal Calkins KING CITY – In dark clothes, Aracely Zavala was walking in the middle of a dark frontage road for reasons that made little sense. From the fresh scuffs later found on the soles of her …
FEATURES By Claudia Meléndez Salinas First it was Sacramento and San Jose. Soon, other cities followed, including Salinas in 2023. But the biggest prize came Jan. 1, when a statewide ban on lowriders finally was repealed in California. Lowriders are …
YOUNG VOICES By Isaac González Díaz Central Coast resident Barbara Gunn lost long-term employment and her home in one fell swoop. That was more than six months ago, and since then, she’s had no options but to live in Monterey …
COMMENTARY By Claudia Meléndez Salinas A lot of interesting stuff happened during the Jan. 23 Salinas City Council meeting. Councilmembers honored Christopher Knapp as the Salinas Fire Department 2023 Firefighter of the Year, the Fire Department itself for its 150th …
OPINION By Fabiola Moreno Ruelas The year after I started the Ruelas Family Foundation, I was interviewed by journalist Joe Mathews of Zocalo Public Square. It was 2021, and the story described the reason why I started the scholarship fund, …
OPINION By Paul Karrer Photos by Isaac González Díaz On a Friday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I asked my fifth-graders if they knew why we had the day off. One suggested, “To celebrate MLK’s birthday.” To be honest, …
Por Claudia Meléndez Salinas Diana Gameros estaba dispuesta a renunciar a su sueño de ganarse la vida como cantante en Estados Unidos cuando llegó la oportunidad de mudarse a San Francisco. Para entonces, ya llevaba 10 años en Michigan, pero …
FEATURES By Claudia Meléndez Salinas Diana Gameros was ready to give up on her dream of making a life as a singer in the United States when an opportunity arrived to move to San Francisco. By then, she had been …
