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By late 2007, Steve Newcomb had been the director of two companies and founded three more. He’d lubricated the insides of the oil, telecom, marketing and mobile service industries, creating $3 billion in corporate wealth.
A Salinas cop was shot at last night after a high-sp…
They come from garages, basements, studios and tour …
Monterey County’s 2009-10 budget is balanced – for now. But this is likely to change as the state struggles to fill its own nearly $24 billion deficit, according to county finance officials.
Ihave often written that there is no more glass ceil…
Carmel Valley is a place unto its own. Often 10 to 2…
The bold resolve of U.S. President Barack Obama to settle the Arab-Israeli conflict poses a clear challenge to Israel’s right-wing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Obama’s challenge to Arab leaders is equally great: He is offering them a unique – probably never to be repeated – chance to s…
The public just got access to a lot more river, than…
Entertainment and gambling have a symbiotic relation…
This shouldn’t surprise us, but somehow a movie abou…
Buying a ticket for a movie about con men is like placing a bet in a game of three-card monte. On some level, you expect to be hoodwinked, and can’t count on winning your money back. Instead, you pay for a sleight-of-hand demonstration, so the hustler (or the filmmaker) can dupe you as long …
Brushing off accusations of violating the Brown Act …
Assemblywoman Anna Caballero (D-Salinas) says she’s seriously considering a run for the California Senate. With Sen. Jeff Denham termed out and Supervisor Simón Salinas, a former assemblyman, recently bowing out, Caballero figures the timing is right.
He was an aristocrat, a poet, a ladies’ man and a bandit. He was born in Monterey in 1835, before Alta California was ceded by Mexico to the U.S. after the U.S.-Mexican War (or the “American Intervention in Mexico,” as it’s known south of the border) – so although he was born here, his natio…
How’s this for a resume? Helped sprout the health fo…
According to Shakespeare, a rose by any other name w…
Through the double doors to the pagoda-style complex…
