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11/06/2024

FREE SPEECHCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo agreed to a settlement on Nov. 1 with a student journalist who filed a Public Records Act lawsuit earlier this year. In 2022, Elizabeth Wilson, a journalist at Cal Poly’s student paper,…

11/06/2024

Hopes were high, but so were nerves, early in the evening on Tuesday, Nov. 5, Election Day. At the Center for Change in Seaside, the Monterey County Democratic Party’s headquarters, volunteers gathered for food and wine and to watch MSNBC…

11/06/2024

BOOSTING BUSINESS

11/06/2024

Sara Rubin here, bleary eyed after a long election night. There’s the literal meaning to that—the wonderful journalists I work with here at the Weekly fanned out to watch parties all over the county to cover some key races last…

11/06/2024

Minutes after 8pm on Tuesday, Nov. 5, Seaside City Councilmember Alex Miller thrust a fist into the air.

11/06/2024

Approaching Monterey around 7:30pm on election night, the crescent moon, waxing at 17 percent, hangs over the horizon like a rust-hued sickle.

11/06/2024

The lights went out for a big swath of Pacific Grove and Monterey during an outage on Election Night about an hour before the polls closed at 8pm, but thankfully power was still on downtown where two watch parties were…

11/06/2024

Fittingly, in a town known for having more restaurants per capita than any other small city in America, many Carmel City Council candidates held their election watch parties at local eateries with the exception of Mayor Dave Potter and challenger…

11/06/2024

Gloria De La Rosa knows how to throw a party. To the sound of live mariachi, Tex-Mex and cumbia music, she awaits the results of the Nov. 5 election. Even before the results come in, the atmosphere is festive with…

11/05/2024

To the sound of live mariachi, Tex-Mex and cumbia music, Gloria De La Rosa awaits the results of the Nov. 5 election. Even before the results come in, the atmosphere is festive with drinks flowing and supporters dancing on the…

11/05/2024

Hopes were high, but so were nerves, early in the evening on Tuesday, Nov. 5, Election Day. At the Center for Change in Seaside, the Monterey County Democratic Party’s headquarters, volunteers gathered for food and wine and to watch MSNBC…

11/05/2024

Fittingly, in a town known for having more restaurants per capita than any other small city in America, many Carmel City Council candidates held their election watch parties at local eateries with the exception of Mayor Dave Potter and challenger…

11/05/2024

The lights went out for a big swath of Pacific Grove and Monterey during an outage on Election Night about an hour before the polls closed at 8pm, but thankfully power was still on downtown where two watch parties were…

11/05/2024

Approaching Monterey at around 7:30pm on election night, the crescent moon, waxing at 17 percent, hangs over the horizon like a rust-hued sickle.

11/05/2024

Minutes after 8pm on Tuesday, Nov. 5, Seaside City Councilmember Alex Miller thrust a fist into the air.

11/05/2024

About an hour before the first round of election results rolled in Tuesday night, Nov. 5, Mike Moeller is chatting with family and friends at Mountain Mike’s Pizza in Marina. The group of about a dozen people are watching ABC…

11/05/2024

Results for the 2024 general election in Monterey County were first reported just after 8pm on coming in Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, with early voting and vote-by-mail totals tabulated first.

11/05/2024

Erik Chalhoub here. Did you cast your vote today at the ballots, or slip it into a dropbox or your mailbox sometime since Oct. 7? If you haven’t, there’s still time to vote in-person—polling places close tonight at 8pm.

11/04/2024

Sara Rubin here, feeling on edge. There’s so much anticipation leading up to tomorrow’s election. But there’s no amount of reading about it, analyzing it or waking up in the middle of the night thinking about it that makes Nov.…

11/04/2024

Editor's Note: This story was updated from the original post on Nov. 4 at 2pm on Nov. 5, following an interview with Conway.

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