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An organization that supports Salinas businesses comes to its end.
Opinion

An organization that supports Salinas businesses comes to its end.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Dec 17, 2025

Celia Jiménez here, thinking about how different, on a small or big scale, the new year may look for each of us. It will be especially differe…

Cannabis remains a hot topic in Monterey County, legal or otherwise.
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Cannabis remains a hot topic in Monterey County, legal or otherwise.

  • Agata Popęda
  • Nov 1, 2025

Agata Popęda here, thinking about cannabis, which dominated the news section of the current issue of the Weekly. There are two stories this we…

A challenging future faces California and the region. Local leaders try to make sense of it.
Opinion

A challenging future faces California and the region. Local leaders try to make sense of it.

  • Erik Chalhoub
  • Oct 17, 2025

Erik Chalhoub here, thinking back to nearly a year ago, when I attended the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership’s State of the Region. At that t…

A new report finds Monterey County’s economy is strong, but warning signs persist.
Opinion

A new report finds Monterey County’s economy is strong, but warning signs persist.

  • Erik Chalhoub
  • Oct 13, 2025

Erik Chalhoub here, noting that humans rarely make decisions for rational reasons. We could fix up our older vehicles for much less than the p…

Best Local Crop (2025)
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Best Local Crop (2025)

  • Oct 9, 2025

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Salinas United Business Association to dissolve by the end of the year.
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Salinas United Business Association to dissolve by the end of the year.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Oct 9, 2025

For over 20 years, the Salinas United Business Association has been part of the landscape in East Salinas, helping business owners with permit…

Immigrants are living in fear. But this is nothing new in this country’s history.
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Immigrants are living in fear. But this is nothing new in this country’s history.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Aug 10, 2025

Celia Jiménez here, thinking about the cover story I wrote for this week’s edition of the Weekly about immigration and how current policies ha…

Immigration raids have not yet come to Monterey County, but the fear that they could is changing people’s lives.
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Immigration raids have not yet come to Monterey County, but the fear that they could is changing people’s lives.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Aug 7, 2025

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  • Rob Rogers
  • Sep 6, 2023
Housing and labor shortages are holding back the Monterey Bay region’s economy.
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Housing and labor shortages are holding back the Monterey Bay region’s economy.

  • Rey Mashayekhi
  • May 25, 2023

Shortages of housing and, in turn, labor continue to be the biggest headwinds facing the Monterey Bay region’s economic growth, economist Chri…

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