Pam Marino here, thinking about candidate debates and how they’ve evolved, or maybe it’s devolved. When Abraham Lincoln faced Stephen Douglas for a series of seven Illinois senate race debates in 1858, lasting three hours each, they argued the policies…
The Chalk Art Festival has been a thing in Pacific Grove’s Forest Grove Elementary School for almost a decade. This year, it was hosted by one of the school moms, an artist and art teacher Kim Kasner Stone, who designed…
Pam Marino here, expressing gratitude for Monterey County’s community health workers. These are the folks who are connecting some of our more vulnerable community members to resources that can make all the difference in being able to live a healthy…
Dave Faries here, acknowledging that most of my stories begin with the preface “decades ago…”
Agata Popęda here, thinking about Amazon and its future in the context of the company’s distribution center coming to Salinas. My thoughts are inspired by a recent article by Erik Chalhoub, which you can find in the current issue of…
Celia Jiménez here, thinking about El Grito, the Cry of Dolores, the moment when the Mexican War of Independence started on Sept. 16, 1810 in Dolores, Hidalgo, Mexico.
On Friday, Sept. 13, the Salinas Union High School District announced who will replace Superintendent Dan Burns.
In a 7-1 vote with two commissioners recusing on Thursday, Sept. 12, the California Coastal Commission approved Monterey-Salinas Transit’s controversial SURF! Busway project, an off-highway busway that is planned to span from Marina to Sand City west of Highway 1.
The efforts by a group of determined activists attempting to save the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center came to an abrupt end on Tuesday, Sept. 10, when the 100-year-old facility was demolished by the Pebble Beach Company.
Two weeks after the Monterey County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 in favor of a new short-term rental ordinance, the board split down the same lines on Tuesday, Sept. 10, in a final approval of amendments to the county’s code…
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A farmworker housing project in Pajaro got the green light from a majority of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
