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Right now, there’s a list of 1,000 jail inmates in California waiting for a state hospital bed…
For Salinas real estate agent Greg Hamer, the choice…
When the first Pacific Grove results were posted on …
MDOT is a collaboration between the Monterey Police Department and various social services agencies and nonprofits…
“H.I.G. is probably the most prolific investor in companies profiting from prisons and detentions”…
Incumbent Ian Oglesby appears to have won the three-…
This pandemic year is brutal for the restaurant busi…
While all eyes are on the two-way U.S. presidential race, in Salinas five candidates are vying to become the next mayor, seeking an open seat that was held for eight years by Joe Gunter, who died in June. In that race, experienced politicians faced off against community activists, and Kimble…
Excerpted from an article that was originally publis…
FREE SPEECHIn vast swaths of the country, local journalism has all but disappeared over the past 15 years. In these so-called news deserts, fake news websites are stepping in to sell partisan coverage. A bipartisan effort is trying to reverse the decline of local news by putting money into t…
Everything old is new again is an apt saying for vin…
It was only last year that the threat of a lawsuit p…
The public takeover of the water system serving the …
The timing was ironic and the fall was spectacular.
BRACE FOR IMPACT… When Squid looked at the calendar on Tuesday morning, Squid was slightly surprised to see it was already Nov. 3 – it feels to Squid more like the 273rd of March. But an entire season has come and gone, and Squid oozed down to Squid’s polling place to vote, and also reflect …
In any competition, there is a winner and a loser. S…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet Charles Baudel…
As I write this, it is three days until the 2020 election. And most Americans have heard nothing about a story that would dominate the news cycle in any sane society.