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IF THERE’S ANY SILVER LINING TO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S ELECTION, IT WILL HOPEFULLY BE INCREASED VOTER TURNOUT IN 2020 – and a powerful rebuke to his policies and decorum that by design are chipping away at American institutions, integrity and protections for the people and places that most…
Australian-born bluesman C.W. Stoneking has enough g…
Last July, a Seaside teenager was enjoying his last …
The 2020 Oscars were an entertaining procession of C…
Carl and Carol Triplett, 86 and 81, are sitting in their Salinas dining room surrounded by cardboard moving boxes. The house they are leaving after 20 years was Carl’s parents house, located a few blocks from Hartnell College. In 1951, his family moved from the Central Valley to Salinas just…
Fast. Casual. Affordable. Healthy. Laidback Hawaiian…
It all started with a “strong odor.” On Jan. 16, an …
Dan Buettner is the walking-talking embodiment of hi…
WHO’S IN TOWN?Death is not something many like to think about, let alone talk about. Jim Van Buskirk has done a lot of both. He is a coordinator for the Final Exit Network, a nonprofit that believes in “self-deliverance,” a person’s choice to die with dignity. The author and librarian co-lea…
“What do Outlaw Country and Valentine’s Day have to …
The wine we pour feels as natural as air – and it is – but even nature has a way of turning on itself when human activity gets involved. In the case of Monterey County’s air quality, the naturally occurring process of fermenting wine is a big contributor to emissions of volatile organic comp…
The candidates running for the Monterey County Board…
United Way Monterey County dedicates a community-cre…
When the Monterey Symphony Orchestra resumes their 2019-2020 season on Feb. 15, the program chosen by conductor and music director Max Bragado-Darman offers two 19th-century massive symphonic masterworks. But that is where the similarities between the two end.
Sonic The Hedgehog is inspired by one of the most po…
A classic growth versus no-growth battle is being wa…
Here’s a thing you’ve probably seen dozens of times:…
Love can be elusive, Love Potion even moreso. It fli…
Timmy Ha loves pho. So it’s fortunate that the Marin…
As a generation of black activists passes on, emerging leaders are revitalizing the local community.
When word came down in the early 1990s about the clo…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now that she’s in her late 40s, Aries comedian and actress Tig Notaro is wiser about love. Her increased capacity for romantic happiness has developed in part because she’s been willing to change her attitudes. She says, “Instead of being someone who expects people…
