Aric Sleeper here, thinking about my own driving habits after speaking with local bicyclists and transportation planners for my cover story about using active transportation, or walking, biking and rolling in anything that is not an automobile. 

Agata Popęda here, with a reading recommendation from the current issue of the Weekly (which you can read in print or online). This article is reported and written by my colleague Celia Jiménez, who has an important, often arduous job of monitoring education in Monterey County. Talking to te…

Celia Jiménez here, in sunny Salinas. Under a scorching sun today, July 31, runners from Monterey County Juvenile Hall covered in sweat kept pushing through to the finish during the second annual Half Marathon organized by the Monterey County Probation Department and Big Sur Marathon Foundation.