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Traveling through certain landscapes, I like to play a game: Imagine what it once looked like, before modern human impact. If you try hard eno…
Centerpiece
From the sky, Carr Lake, a 480-acre space of agricultural fields in the heart of Salinas, looks like a nucleus, a green space surrounded by a …
FREE SPEECHRana Ayyub is the kind of journalist who is unafraid to speak truth to power. In one recent column in The Washington Post, where sh…
FREE SPEECHOn Jan. 24, six days after a police shooting killed 16-year-old Marlon Joel Rodas-Sanchez, the Salinas Police Department released t…
The election-season ritual at the Weekly goes something like this: We invite dozens of candidates to our office in Seaside to tell our editori…
A century ago, before the wetlands of the Salinas Valley were drained to make way for farmland, Carr Lake was the largest of a seven-lake syst…
WHO’S IN TOWN?More than 400 species of birds call Monterey County home, some as year-round residents, while others migrate through. Expect to …