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Central Coast Dems like talking about improving schools, promoting green business, protecting the environment and supporting universal health care. So it’s no big shock that the four Democratic candidates eyeing Assemblyman John Laird’s soon-to-be-vacant 27th District seat all list each of t…
Eleven of Monterey County’s judges are up for re-ele…
Republican state Sen. Jeff Denham made a bold move l…
If Salinas residents care about children safely cros…
Elections are like those 70-plus-degree days we’ve seen lately: They seem to be coming earlier and more often to Monterey County.
If Pacific Grove voters approve Measure U on June 3,…
“There’s not enough water in Monterey County. Housin…
HOW ABOUT A JOB SHARE?… Squid wants to trade jobs with Marina Coast Water District General Manager Jim Heitzman. Not only does Heitzman earn about seven times as much as Squid at $205,000 a year, but now the district is interviewing for a newly created assistant general manager position. The…
Nobody was hotter in the late ‘60s and ‘70s in jazz than Miles Davis and saxophonist Charles Lloyd. As headliners touring with the biggest rock bands, both artists enjoyed tremendous commercial success. Looking for life’s deeper meaning, Lloyd, at the height of popularity, left music and mov…
Lyme disease is not just something that happens to p…
Playwright and filmmaker David Mamet holds a purple …
Carmel Valley attorney Richard Rosenthal hasn’t seen a major Marina environmental impact report that he liked. Continuing a litigious tradition of challenging every recent Marina housing development, Rosenthal, who represents Save Our Peninsula Committee, is now suing Creekbridge’s Marina Station.
At a February show in Big Sur’s Fernwood Bar, The En…
Carmel-by-the-Sea officials are now cautiously open …
Your recent article on Ed Leeper [“Piece of Work,” April 24-30] has raised two bothersome issues for me. The first is that I am embarrassed being associated with Leeper in his relentless quest for glory. This is your publication’s second article featuring Leeper in which I am referenced. Yes…
In the aquamarine waters off the coast of the Kingdo…
The right way is to take unwanted goods to a thrift …
The self-proclaimed Mexican Elvis, El Vez, is much more than just an impersonator doing rewrites of the King’s most popular songs in Spanish. The performer behind “You Ain’t Nothing But a Chihuahua,” his take on “Hound Dog,” also teaches Mexican-American history with the backing of a fiery r…
Thomas McCarthy has made two films that stand out no…
Breaking in a new act in the Mexican food industry i…
It’s a powerful feeling – knowing that you could, if…
Nikon D2H, Nikkor 10.5 fisheye, ISO 800, f/4, 1/125 sec.
What’s next?” is Valerie Ramsey’s avowed mantra. She…
Forget chess as a metaphor for life. Consider fire, instead. Hot and hypnotic at best; raging and destructive at worst. It’s consuming and dangerously beautiful and, unlike chess, fire is never boring.
