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EARLY THIS YEAR, IN THE BEFORE TIMES, I was walking (maskless) through a crowded farmers market at Monterey Peninsula College when a woman handed me a recruiting flyer for the 2020 Census. Retired, I decided I could serve the country, while earning $21 per hour. I turned in my application an…
In early 2017, a bridge collapsed to the north and m…
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In September, six months into shelter-in-place, there was a noticeable shift among the students representing all military branches participating in rigorous language training at the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey. Commanders referred to it as “the restlessness,” DLI C…
For winemaker Ian Brand, it’s important to weigh the…
In a normal year, 17,000 people or more navigate the…
FREE SPEECHMore than half of all counties in the United States have only one newspaper or none at all, according to research from the University of North Carolina. These areas are known as news deserts, and Monterey County is fortunate not to be one. Recent studies have shown that the loss o…
Someone has to pay for all of those lawn signs, glos…
Aurelia Guzmán, a short woman with long dark hair, s…
It started in January 2017, with a group of young No…
AMORAL MAJORITY… Squid took a longing look at the calendar. Nine days and counting, Squid thought, until the election, when life has a slight chance of returning to something approximating normal.
Over more than three decades, the Great American Bee…
Cora Panturad, a student of environmental policy and…
With less than a week to go until Election Day, I am wracking my brains to remember if I have ever heard a closing argument as incoherent as President Donald Trump’s, and I can’t.
for conservative causes. But in next week’s election…
