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The 30-second ad begins with melancholy music, and scenes of a Wall Street trading floor. “Remember when greed was good?” a voice intones. “When you had to look the part? When you had to pay for a seat at the table?” The image is a man in a dark suit counting money.
It’s a toss-up between a waiting game and a guessing…
The rumor started flying locally the morning of Mond…
Kent Torrey, proprietor of The Cheese Shop in Carmel…
Francisco Luevano keeps his gaze focused downward at the chess boards of his five competitors, who are seated in an L formation. He’s playing simultaneous games, or simul, requiring quick thinking. Luevano, 13, needs to win at least three of five games to get his name onto the club’s Plaque …
For John Wineglass, his first piece as the first-eve…
Before the pandemic flipped the world upside down, T…
California’s proposition system takes a lot of heat, including over confusing wording written by regular people, then approved by voters and enacted into law. Consider section 26152 of Prop. 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, which included this prohibition: “No licensee shall advertise or …
Residents from Monterey County are voicing their fru…
Col. Varman Chhoeung doesn’t remember much of his li…
At the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad las…
The head of the Seaside Police union has been placed on paid leave pending the outcome of an investigation, and has been banned from stepping foot inside the police department or any city building not open to the general public until that investigation is complete.
LET THE SUN SHINE… Squid was giddy to get a notice from the First Amendment Coalition that Squid needed to prepare for Sunshine Week, an initiative launched by the American Society of News Editors to promote open government. The week has its own hashtag – #sunshineweek – and the FAC wants pe…
Villa Azteca has built a reputation for thoughtfully…
Last month, a full-page ad for Lucky Strike cigarett…
In the ’80s an exercise campaign to introduce jumping rope as a way to combat heart disease took over elementary school physical education programs everywhere. It was called Jump Rope for Heart and it was an educational program started by the American Heart Association. But jumping rope isn’…
discomforts and symptoms that your body seems most s…
Black and Latino populations should be prioritized for the Covid-19 vaccine. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Black Americans and Latinos have case rates, hospitalizations and mortality rates three and four times higher than white Americans. Yet white Americans are receivin…
