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Literary fads come and go, so it’s no surprise that John Steinbeck’s reputation has suffered critical brickbats since the glory days of The Grapes of Wrath, only to see his works re-emerge as surprisingly relevant now that the nation, and California, has found itself in its worst decline sin…
High tech crime fighting is on the agenda at Salinas…
Salinas Valleyelected officials are poised to move forwardthis week with new technologies designed to make landfills obsolete. But some environmentalists say, not so fast. Bay Area-based Green Action deployed a half dozen canvassers in Gonzales neighborhoods on Jan. 17 in an eleventh-hour at…
Examining radishes in Del Monte Produce, a small gro…
Being lifelong friends can be difficult. Relationshi…
In a departure from its usual practice of approving …
It’s not clear who may use marijuana legally and under what conditions. This became clear to a friend of mine who thought he was legally cultivating some marijuana in a shed. He thought he was doing everything right, and so did a policeman who investigated the first time. But during a second…
Tucked in the corner of a Fremont Street shopping ce…
Sun Hop Fat is the name of a pair of Asian grocery s…
SLIPPERY DUCK… A lack of bones makes it easy for Squid to combine alcohol and staircases. Not the case for Monterey County resident Nora Lagapa, who fell down the stairs in 2008 at The Mucky Duck and claims she has since racked up more than $400,000 in medical bills and suffers memory loss, …
Back in the 1990s, Theo Colborn, then-senior scienti…
Although it is achingly sad, Rabbit Hole is not maud…
People could understandably consider 29-year-old piano virtuoso Josu De Solaun a young prodigy – just maybe not at this Monterey Symphony performance, where he’ll share the bill with a 19-year-old composer.
Countless bottles of Jameson whiskey and boxes of pi…
Julia Child’s description of her first encounter wit…
First there were seven sea salts, then came waffles,…
Follow-up: What would your alien peace offering be?
