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THE NARRATIVE IS TRAGICALLY FAMILIAR. On Memorial Day, Minneapolis police came to investigate George Floyd for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill. Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, moved to detain Floyd, kneeling on Floyd’s neck, with three colleagues standing by. As Floyd pleaded for…
Even the policy wonks on U.S. Rep Jimmy Panetta’s st…
This is excerpted from a story that was first publis…
PK Diffenbaugh is a little perplexed. As superintendent of Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, he’s wondering if people know what exactly they are asking when they call for the economy to reopen. “I have been surprised education hasn’t been more at the forefront of the news consideri…
The rugged country of Big Sur has long attracted peo…
Over the past three months, restaurants, wineries an…
Monterey Symphony’s conductor was supposed to be leading his final concert, and is instead in quarantine.
In 2017, action was swift after the Weekly revealed that former Seaside police chief Robert Jackson had posted racist conspiracy theories on his personal Facebook page: Within a month, he resigned. A 12-member panel of community members was appointed to help guide the hiring process. The new…
Thousands of people in Marina are being blocked from…
By the participants of Professor Marie Boucher’s SIP Poetry Workshop, April 17, 2020
A shelter-in-place order means no leisure travel all…
The week of May 25, before George Floyd’s name enter…
DRILL, BABY, DRILL… Along with jet propulsion and curiosity about the deep ocean, God gave Squid eyes that can see in the darkness hundreds of feet below the surface. So when Squid was little, momma always said to watch out for perils in the deep and go no further than Squid’s sight allows. …
Maria Gonzalez remembers San Francisco’s late-night …
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet Paul Verlaine wrote “Autumn Song” in 1866. It became a well-known French poem, and eventually played a role in a historical turning point. In June 1944, a top-secret British spy organization used the poem as a code to communicate crucial information to t…
