Issue Archive
We’re living through an ongoing global pandemic that has, thus far, caused the death of over 500 Monterey County residents (and millions more worldwide). The Pacific Northwest and Canada are experiencing record high temperatures, conditions that have sparked destructive fires. In January, ar…
Today, the Monterey Regional Waste Management Distri…
The personal life and varied interests of famed Cali…
Longtime Carmel restaurateur and owner of Flaherty’s…
When terrestrial forests burn, or are decimated by disease or industry, the impact is visual and visceral, the reaction loud and urgent. Screaming firetrucks race by, politicians gather and declare, interest groups organize. Funding is funneled and argued over.
In April 2020, shortly after shelter-in-place took e…
The mother of an unarmed man shot by Seaside Police …
BACK FLIP…Every Olympics Squid swears Squid won’t watch, but then Squid’s trusty bulldog, Rosco P. Coltrane, whines about not wanting to miss the opening ceremony and Squid caves and gets sucked in. Squid and Rosco watched hours of events over the weekend, including women’s synchronized diving.
There are some esoteric rules in France when it come…
The smell of urine is strong as Sandra Dixon and Jua…
Julissa Reyes sits on the edge of a planter box outside of the Salinas Police Department headquarters, and she’s preparing to pray. She’s trying to light incense, but the afternoon wind sweeps through and whips out the flame. A few feet from her, another woman stands in front of a drum, teac…
After 16 months of either virtual or hybrid learning…
At first glance, Monterey County’s annual crop repor…
The nonprofit Asian Cultural Experience, aka ACE, wa…
Imagine a week-long party offering free food, an ope…
The International Olympic Committee is one of those organizations that always says it’s changing so that it never has to actually change all that much. The IOC tinkers around the edges of reform and then trumpets this tinkering as if it has shaken up the Olympic world. This dynamic was in fu…
