Monterey County Signal Booster Articles

The 'Washington Post' descends on the "capital of Blue State America" to expose the ongoing homeless crisis in Sacramento.

Monterey County supervisors have voted to approve a plan that would step up enforcement of rules on short-term vacation rental properties.

A collection of 80,000 photos documenting more than a century of life on the Central Coast will stay local after the death of collector Pat Hathaway, 'Monterey County Weekly' reports.

Monterey County Weekly Editor Sara Rubin slams board’s rejection of Measure J, passed by voters in 2018.

Author Catherine Prendergast peers into the past of Carmel-by-the-Sea’s artists’ enclave and the alleged suicide of poet Nora May French.

Monterey County Weekly’s Pam Marino spotlights both the new and renovated housing being constructed for farm laborers, year-round residents and migrants alike. But demand is still far higher than the supply.

Reporter Paul Wilner looks back on a century’s worth of great concerts, from Bach to jazz to rock.

California’s cannabis business is blossoming, but industry experts tell the Sacramento Bee that the state is leaving money on the table.

Sam Quinones, whose last book dealt with the opioid epidemic, talks to the LA Times about his new work on the twin perils of fentanyl and meth.

LA Times staff writer Louis Sahagun reports from the front lines of the battle to preserve California’s most endangered species.

Reporter Claudia Meléndez Salinas interviews the Salinas-raised printmaker and environmental artist for Voices of Monterey.

MC Weekly reporter Christopher Neely untangles the region’s water issues, detailing a quarter-century of failed projects and broken alliances.

In a series of articles, the Los Angeles Times explores the most literal result of global warming: extreme heat.

Monterey County Weekly reports on a state program that offers hope for housing the state’s most vulnerable individuals.

Sacramento-based news outlet talks to Jonathan Burgess and L. Dee Slade, both testifying before the Reparations Task Force.

MC Weekly follows two CSUMB professors with a visionary plan for a region-wide recreational trail. If only everyone could see it so clearly.

Monterey County Weekly spotlights “Shadows from the Past: Sansei Artists and the American Concentration Camps,” on view at the Monterey Art Museum.

This year, an estimated 60,000 birds have been poisoned by botulism in one of the oldest waterfowl conservation reserves in the state.

Palo Alto Weekly interviews Matt Werner, whose play ‘Burning Man: The Musical’ is available on Broadway On Demand and Streaming Musicals.

Monterey County Weekly’s Christopher Neely writes about the havoc wrought by feral pigs, whose success is due to “factors ranging from natural to political.”