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Judge appoints a receiver to guide the Dick Bruhn Building through remediation or sale.
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Judge appoints a receiver to guide the Dick Bruhn Building through remediation or sale.

  • Aug 7, 2020

For Oldtown Salinas property owner Gerry Kehoe, a clock that was already ticking on his ownership of the fire-ravaged Dick Bruhn Building has …

School districts band together to sue the city of Salinas over plan to build thousands of new homes.
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School districts band together to sue the city of Salinas over plan to build thousands of new homes.

  • Mary Duan
  • Jan 16, 2020

The Santa Rita Union School District and the Salinas Union High School District have sued the city of Salinas, a local builder and a trio of p…

City of Salinas moves to take long-blighted Dick Bruhn building into receivership.
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City of Salinas moves to take long-blighted Dick Bruhn building into receivership.

  • Mary Duan
  • Dec 7, 2019

The city of Salinas is moving to place the Dick Bruhn building, gutted by an electrical fire in 2016, into receivership, saying years of inact…

Local Spin | Opinion

Thoughts on protecting immigrants as the ACLU launches a new tack.

  • Mar 16, 2017

In three parts, thoughts on protections for immigrants – locally and elsewhere – as the cheeto-hued vulgarian…

SQUID FRY 02.23.17: Scare Tactics
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SQUID FRY 02.23.17: Scare Tactics

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  • Feb 23, 2017

SCARE TACTICS… Sometimes while Squid is holed up in the lair on a rainy day snuggling with Squid’s English bulldog, Rosco P. Coltrane, and sna…

Local Spin | Opinion

A new Salinas councilman tries making a statement on immigration.

  • Mary Duan
  • Feb 2, 2017

In San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee declared the city’s policy of providing sanctuary for undocumented immigrants will remain in effect…

Homeless man loses lawsuit to get on Salinas ballot.
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Homeless man loses lawsuit to get on Salinas ballot.

  • Marielle Argueza, Sara Rubin
  • Oct 19, 2016

A homeless man who sued to get on the Nov. 8 ballot for Salinas City Council lost his case. In a decision released Oct. 17, Monterey County Su…

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Salinas tries to move homeless, battles with county.

  • Mary Duan
  • Sep 29, 2016

Six months ago, a protest-cum-social-experiment sprang up on the lawn in front of Salinas City Hall. The rationale for it went something like this…

Chinatown health center to open in midst of homicides, camping ban.
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Chinatown health center to open in midst of homicides, camping ban.

  • Ana Ceballos
  • Sep 29, 2016

Along Soledad Street in Salinas’ Chinatown, tents block sidewalks in front of empty businesses, and the homeless men and women lying next to t…

Salinas officials enforce ordinance, cite 13 homeless people.
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Salinas officials enforce ordinance, cite 13 homeless people.

  • Ana Ceballos
  • Aug 18, 2016

A group of homeless people showed up in Monterey County Superior Court in Salinas on Aug. 3 to face criminal citations for camping or having t…

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