It''s federal tax time again, and whether you''re dishing out cash to Uncle Sam or anxiously awaiting a refund, the deadline is at hand. That got us thinking about taxes in general. Where does all the money go? Are our tax dollars being used efficiently? Here''s what some locals had to say.

Martha Norton isn''t sure where they got her name. But when the representative for a group of conservation activists phoned her Monterey home in 1968, she readily agreed to help them. The group was working to place a proposition on the California state ballot that would curb coastal developm…