Last year, Barack Obama invited the presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to the White House for a long, personal, open-ended conversati…
Over the five-and-a-half years I spent editing the Weekly, I developed an exquisitely painful knot in my neck...
State prison officials say they have launched an investigation into reports that a Salinas Valley State Prison inmate is orchestrating hits fr…
While he has spent much of the past two years in solitary confinement, Melvin Ray is still eager to talk about what he sees as a growing natio…
I don’t frequent fast-food restaurants, but for a while, I’d been meaning to check out the new In-n-Out in Seaside after it opened with so much hype…
Matthew Miller was hiking in Garrapata State Park on the morning of July 22, the day the Soberanes Fire started. The fire stretched about 50 f…
Starting in the seventh grade, Deborah Biller knew she was going to be a doctor.
The original 2013 Now You See Me was a bad movie. It was deceptive in its badness, because it offered a bunch of slick surface pleasures, buil…
In a week when a huge number of this paper’s readers are going to the polls, it’s a timely opportunity to remind lawmakers – and those who vote for them – that the business of the state of California is the public’s business…
Gerry Kehoe, the owner of the Oldtown Salinas building that burned spectacularly Feb. 13 in a fire that officials are calling suspicious, could use some smarter advisors around him…