Monterey County Local News

On WHAT A WEEK, join host Erik Nelson as he as an “off-the-record” conversation with Atlantic Magazine staff writer Franklin Foer, as they discuss all things Election 2024, plus so much more. Foer is the author of "The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future”, and was previously the editor of The New Republic and a writer at Slate and New York magazine, so, his insights on the current ecology of the media and All Things Election Apocalypse represent a VERY informed opinion. Hear for yourself!

A course through CSUMB under the banner of the OSHER Center is bringing in local stories of immigrants and their descendants. The guests and teachers of the course are former president of Chabot College, Celia Barbarena, PhD and former Dean at CSUMB, Chris Hasegawa, PhD. With heated rhetoric bashing immigrants, local people are speaking out. The course is called:  “Immigrants: Our Life Stories” through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at CSU Monterey Bay.

Katie Thompson is the new Executive Director of Save Our Shores, the organization which runs the annual Coast Cleanup among other great ocean conservation programs.

Join Erik Nelson for two hours of prime “AmeriArcana” — as we celebrate some of the weirdest, wildest, and most wonderful Country music ever picked and ever grinned — on this inaugural edition of “Surfin’ Hootenanny.” The 40's, 50's, and 60's were an era defined by boundary-shattering musical artists who wrote and performed classic music that celebrated the hard drinkin’ and hard lovin’ world of Saturday night — and then — wallowed in guilt that next Sunday morning. Hear for yourself and atone for those sins!!
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KING CITY — Trailing in their first match of the volleyball season two games to one, the King City Lady Mustangs played better down the stretch and defeated South Monterey County rival Greenfield High in a 3-2 non-league battle.

KING CITY — Trailing in their first match of the volleyball season two games to one, the King City Lady Mustangs played better down the stretch and defeated South Monterey County rival Greenfield High in a 3-2 non-league battle.

The City of Soledad is the first South Monterey County community to adopt the 2023-2031 Housing Element, a document that will ensure Soledad adequately plans to meet the housing needs of all community members.

KING CITY — King City Police Department reported that no one was arrested for DUI at a DUI checkpoint on Aug. 22.

Another million-dollar vehicle shown at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on Aug. 18 was destroyed by fire after it was being transported by trailer, this time on Wednesday, Sept. 4 on Highway 68.

She was already 10 days later. My sister Rosie and her best friend Charla had been there at our house for the birth that didn’t happen (they did leave behind a very nice teddy bear called Rob who is still around today), and then they had to go back to the UK. My parents had arrived to stay in Carmel and herald the newborn’s arrival a few days after sister left. But here we were, late-late-late. Still nothing.

She was already 10 days later. My sister Rosie and her best friend Charla had been there at our house for the birth that didn’t happen (they did leave behind a very nice teddy bear called Rob who is still around today), and then they had to go back to the UK. My parents had arrived to stay in Carmel and herald the newborn’s arrival a few days after sister left. But here we were, late-late-late. Still nothing.

Police Reports are obtained from the local police departments.

Police Reports are obtained from the local police departments.

Why did the mountain lion cross Main Street in Oldtown Salinas?

This episode of Talk of the Bay, with host Meilin Obinata, honors Labor Day by diving into modern labor issues with health and technology workers. We heard from an anonymous local CVS worker, who shared some of the workplace struggles workers are experiencing, and the role customers can serve to advocate for workers when we visit retail environments. The show included a snippet of music by Jimmy Kelly from the Labor Day festivities hosted by the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council in Romo Park in Watsonville, California.
We spent the bulk of the show with Mia Casesa and Ike McCreery of the Tech Workers Coalition. Casesa and McCreery shared their individual journeys to developing an awareness of themselves as workers – Mia, coming from a fine arts and graphic design background, and Ike from a math, computer science and engineering one. Despite having experiences which appear different on the surface, both found alienation as workers whether from precarious employment post-college leading to jobs paying less than before college or becoming disillusioned with the purposes to which tech employers were directing one's labor.
Artificial intelligence came up as a topic at different points in our discussion – in the context of Project Maven, a project which attracted labor actions from workers at Google, in response to the goal of producing AI software for the US military along with the different ways the unions in Hollywood handled the issue of AI. We also heard about the role of technology companies in politics and within military applications of tech.
The definition of who "is" a tech worker is something the guests defined as encompassing not only engineers and designers such as the guests but culinary workers, drivers and other workers within tech companies who hold a variety of responsibilities.
The guests invited the workers in the audience to visit the Tech Workers Coalition site and join the Slack.
The Tech Workers Coalition is hosting an event "Circuit Breakers" Saturday October 12 and Sunday October 13 in San Francisco: https://techworkerscoalition.org/circuit-breakers/
To learn more about topics from the show, feel free to see these links:
https://labornotes.org/techcon2023
https://kickstarterunited.org/
link to article about Google's Project Maven to provide artificial intelligence software to the US  military which caused some workers to quit in protest https://archive.ph/BOCLJ
Sharing the Moment of Truth with Ami Chen Mills episode of an interview of Malcolm Harris, the author of the book "Palo Alto" which covers the hidden history of Silicon Valley from the last 170 years.

The number of people experiencing homelessness in Monterey County during the 2024 point-in-time count conducted in January increased by 16 percent over 2022 totals, the Coalition of Homeless Services Providers announced Thursday, Sept. 5.