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Image caption: The schoolhouse was the biggest building in Allensworth, the town founded by Col. Allen Allensworth, which is now a state park.
Civil Rights, Historical Wrongs

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

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Destination Nerdville

Good Times reports on why Watsonville’s first gathering for fans of comics, LARP and video games matters.

Image caption: Loch Lomond, currently at 60 percent capacity, supplies Santa Cruz County with most of its water.
Liquid Assets

A Good Times cover story explores big-picture solutions envisioned by Santa Cruz County water agencies.

Image caption: The Roman goddess Diana, namesake of Dianic Wicca, a feminist spirituality movement founded by Z. Budapest.
Getting Some Z

LA Times reporter Deborah Netburn was on a witch hunt, and she found a prime one: Zsuzsanna Budapest.

Image caption: Northern pintails and many other species of waterfowl depend on marshland in the Klamath Basin during migration.
Dying for Fresh Water

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

Image caption: Matt Werner’s “Burning Man: The Musical” lampoons how moneyed visitors eschewed the festival’s original grassroots ethos.
The Playa’s the Thing

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

Image caption: The move to district city council elections remains controversial in Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz Local Reports on Move to District Council Elections

The switch from at-large to district-based city council elections has yet to get the entire council on board, according to a 'Santa Cruz Local' report.

Image caption: PG&E now says it plans to place 10,000 miles of power lines underground.
After Dixie Fire, PG&E Announces Plan to Put 10,000 Miles of Wire Underground

After admitting a power line may have started the Dixie Megafire in Butte County, PG&E now says it will place 10,000 miles of power lines underground.

Image caption: California law requires counties to make data on workplace COVID outbreaks public, but only 20 counties do.
Counties Scoff at Workplace COVID Data Law

A new report reveals that only 20 counties have complied with a law requiring release of workplace COVID outbreak data.

Image caption: Laird defended the education budget process on the floor of the senate.
Schools Finally Get Needed Funding

EdSource spoke with Sen. John Laird Monday regarding the “historic” education funding contained in the budget the legislature had just sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Image caption: The guitars were from a single $2 million heist in Southern California.
SCPD Finds Stolen Axes

Santa Cruz Police Lt. Arnold Vasquez  told the Sentinel’s Jessica York that investigators with the SCPD on Tuesday raided a Delaware Avenue warehouse and found nine vintage guitars valued at $5,000 to $50,000 each.

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