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It’s been hard to miss Monterey County Supervisor Luis Alejo the past year. He shows up seemingly everywhere at community events, wearing a si…
“Dumpster fire” had an outside chance of becoming Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016. It was the year beloved celebrities including …
There might be no greater political compliment than saying a candidate is someone you want to have a beer with. It recently played into one of…
When Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Watsonville, and his wife, Watsonville City Councilwoman Karina Cervantez Alejo, arrive at the Weekly’s office …
After all the politicking is over and the Legislature finally ships off their stack of bills to Gov. Jerry Brown, it's his call on what to sig…
It might come down to pure emotion in real life, but in Sacramento, the right to end one's own life has been a political matter.
For years, gridlock has been the leading narrative to describe Congress. But California state lawmakers did better: they sent 1,074 bills to G…
Sheriff Scott Miller finds fundraising distasteful, something he may come to regret. “You have to be willing to take money from people you mig…
The Monterey Peninsula is going to need every financial leg up it can get for the $400 million regional desalination plant, assuming it'll eve…
Current drought conditions might make you think twice about singing a long song in the shower. They also have state lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown pushing hard for better water-supply monitoring.