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Bankruptcy court in Salinas is a decidedly unceremonious place, with none of the customary metal detectors or security fanfare normally found in a federal courthouse. The courtroom, located in the Quadrangle Building on South Main Street, offers no indication from the outside that it’s feder…
Imagine if Apple upgraded the iPhone so that problem…
There’s more to California’s $60 billion underground…
Salinas children whose mothers were exposed to certain pesticides when they were pregnant are experiencing developmental delays, according to a study published April 21 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. It’s one of a trio of recently released studies tracking childhood develo…
Nancy Selfridge remembers when the Monterey Peninsul…
In 1770, the Carmel Mission – or officially, Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo – was named after Charles Borromeo, archbishop of Milan, Italy. Several centuries later, the Mission has returned the favor and inspired an Italian.
As Monterey County investigates Steve Collins’ poten…
With lasting dance hits like “I Wonder If I Take You…
Where have all the cowboys gone, anyway? I’ve gotten…
More than half a century after publication, and after years of talk about an Atlas Shrugged movie project, Ayn Rand’s best-selling novel finally hit the big screen – met with indifference by most critics, with excitement in libertarian and conservative circles.
What is a poem? The question pops into my head as I’…
These are not rosy times for California community co…
Summer camp can mean a lot of things: a first kiss, …
The slice of Highway 1 that crumbled to the sea (and…
It was 1942 when Salinas native Mae Sakasegawa, her …
I should have been born Mexican. I love the burn-so-goodness of a jalapeño, make my own tamales from scratch and perpetually seek the best chile relleno the country has to offer.
An eye-catching question arrived on the top of a rec…
Accelerating to 80mph – then coming to a complete st…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): To convey my vision of how best to proceed in the coming week, I’ll offer the following metaphorical scenario: Imagine that you are not a professional chef, but you do have a modicum of cooking skills. Your task is to create a hearty, tasty soup from scratch withou…
