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Cesar Chavez’s victories didn’t come easy.
On its surface, the Next Generation Jazz Festival is…
Nobody saw it coming, until it came: On Feb. 28, arm…
Just a few years ago it wasn’t too easy to transfer …
A long-awaited update on Monterey Downs – a proposed residential and horse park development in the former Fort Ord – was delivered to the Seaside City Council on March 20, and one major question remains: Where’s the water?
The last time I saw Ed Leeper was at his home in Mon…
The truth is, Fred Phelps made a lot of us feel pret…
Some families pass down heirlooms. Others pass down first names. The Westons pass down photography – or rather, an eye for photography.
It’s not the kind of thing you see coming: a group o…
It’s a common problem: You go to the doctor, then get an insurance bill that makes no sense. It’s not much different for your doctor, who bills your insurer, and gets paid through a convoluted formula.
It’s a remarkable group comprising some of Monterey County’s best-connected power players: The “Permit Streamlining Task Force,” formed to advise the county on how to make life less miserable for developers, contractors and land-use consultants, has been meeting since 2006. On Monday, I was presented a dozen or so emails generated over the course of four days this month as members of the task force grappled with the reality that the work they do in private might be forced to go public.
Follow-up: If you had your own radio station, what w…
Before the marine mammal comes flying out of the dar…
JUDGY WUDGY… Squid finds fun games to play during election season to relieve the tension involved in talking to all those candidates. Squid recently overheard human colleagues talking about what seems to be a fun new game: Does the judicial candidate know what car they drive?
This was like a TED Conference assembled exclusively…
Make new friends, but keep the old is my mantra as I…
There’s a certain magic in old-time radio that’s los…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I have coined a new word just for your horoscope this week. It’s “zex,” short for “zen sex.” Zex is a kind of sex in which your mind is at rest, empty of all thoughts. You breathe slowly and calmly, move slowly and calmly, grunt and moan slowly and calmly. You are …
