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The Buzz 02.20.25

  • Feb 20, 2025

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Happy Valentine’s Day to a local woman who’s been fighting for years for the right to get married.
Opinion

Happy Valentine’s Day to a local woman who’s been fighting for years for the right to get married.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Feb 14, 2025

Sara Rubin here, ready to admit that I don’t like Valentine’s Day (although yes, I will eat all the chocolate). Mostly, however, I’m feeling d…

Lori Long and Mark Contreras just want to get married. But their engagement has turned into a national activist effort to reform outdated federal rules that restrict people with disabilities.
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Lori Long and Mark Contreras just want to get married. But their engagement has turned into a national activist effort to reform outdated federal rules that restrict people with disabilities.

  • Daniel Dreifuss
  • Jul 27, 2023

WHEN LORI LONG AND MARK CONTRERAS MET ON A DATING SITE IN 2015, she thought coffee would be the right approach for a first date. But Contreras…

A white woman with blond hair sits on a wooden bench next to a white man with brown hair. They lean forward, as if in prayer.

A white woman with blond hair sits on a wooden bench next to a white man with brown hair. They lean forward, as if in prayer.

  • DANIEL DREIFUSS
  • Jul 26, 2023

Contreras and Long attend church most Sundays, seen here in the mission in San Juan Bautista. Primarily they go to Madonna del Sasso in Salina…

A Salinas couple takes a new tack in their fight for the right to marry.
Local Spin | Opinion

A Salinas couple takes a new tack in their fight for the right to marry.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Nov 24, 2022

When Lori Long and Mark Contreras met on match.com in 2015, she was skeptical about a lavish first date. Coffee seemed like the safe bet – low…

Faced with a government limit on who she can marry, a local woman went to Congress.
News

Faced with a government limit on who she can marry, a local woman went to Congress.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jan 13, 2022

Lori Long describes her dating life in her 40s like many people who turn to online dating: “I had low expectations.” But she was accustomed to…

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