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DESPITE THE PROMISE OF BOUNDLESS ACCESS TO INFORMATION, SILICON VALLEY MIRRORS LEGACY MEDIA IN ITS CONSOLIDATED OWNERSHIP AND PRIVILEGING OF ELITE NARRATIVES. This new class of billionaire oligarchs owns or controls the most popular media platforms, including Facebook (Meta), Apple, Amazon, …
Soprano Leberta Lorál was born in San Francisco and …
People in Cachagua know to call Dana Mellinger when …
“Dead meat” sounds more like a punch line from an Ar…
Back when beer drinkers observed seasonal fundamenta…
Sometimes as a gift-giver, you want to be different.…
Growing up on the East Side of Salinas, Ollie Lowe learned at a very young age that Christmas isn’t the same for everybody. Raised by a single mother, Lowe and his siblings found themselves standing in line at the Salvation Army each Christmas.
When the Seaside City Council convened for a special…
A vestige of the early days of Covid-19, the respira…
Cannabis is now easy to buy in many parts of Monterey County. But it’s not always easy to smoke it, with restrictions for many renters in their homes, and for tourists in hotel rooms, rental cars and public parks.
Former two-time Carmel mayor Charlotte Townsend died…
Back in February of this year, the board of Monterey…
While Al Franken is a veteran comedy writer, he didn’t have to come up with much material for his current tour. “A lot of stuff in the show is from the Senate – some of it exact, word for word,” he says. An eight-year stint in Congress with the likes of Ron Johnson and Josh Hawley, providing…
Attention barbecue lovers: Before you book your next…
House-rich, but cash-poor. That’s the challenge the …
California’s homeless census this year confirmed wha…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries filmmaker Andrei Ta…
The cities of the Salinas Valley are unique in that each are flanked by agricultural fields. They are like islands in a sea of green, with a visual reminder in every direction of the industry that powers this region and that feeds the world.