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The sun is setting on parklets in Pacific Grove by Oct. 31.
News

The sun is setting on parklets in Pacific Grove by Oct. 31.

  • Pam Marino
  • Apr 4, 2025

The pandemic parklets that saved a number of Pacific Grove restaurants from closure as well as kept sales taxes flowing into city coffers, wil…

Calls to treat Covid “like the flu” are a siren song of surrender to needless death and preventable disease.
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Calls to treat Covid “like the flu” are a siren song of surrender to needless death and preventable disease.

  • Gregg Gonsalves
  • Feb 24, 2022

The last day of January saw over 2,500 deaths in this country. Hospitals are still reeling in many places, and both health care and public health workers on the front line are just burned out…

Covid is here to stay. Our policy approach must be similarly long-term and wide-reaching.
Forum | Opinion

Covid is here to stay. Our policy approach must be similarly long-term and wide-reaching.

  • Abdullah Shihipar
  • Oct 4, 2021

After 18 months of being stuck in our homes – if we were lucky enough to do so – and being surrounded by death and suffering, we are all ready…

Flush with federal cash, county officials look to finalize the 2021-22 budget.
News

Flush with federal cash, county officials look to finalize the 2021-22 budget.

  • Christopher Neely
  • Jun 11, 2021

Government budget season is often a marathon characterized by disagreements and debates over how public money should be spent. During the cour…

When county buildings shut down, a family-run food business was in trouble. They shifted to sushi.
Eat + Drink

When county buildings shut down, a family-run food business was in trouble. They shifted to sushi.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Apr 26, 2021

Government buildings have a reputation for neither style nor food. Monterey County’s 1937 building on West Alisal Street, now home to the Dist…

County Health Officer Edward Moreno has become a household name during the pandemic.
Face to Face

County Health Officer Edward Moreno has become a household name during the pandemic.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Mar 20, 2021

Dr. Edward Moreno was appointed as Monterey County’s health officer in 2013, inheriting a long list of responsibilities. Those include oversee…

Leon Panetta taps an old friend and man of the moment, Dr. Anthony Fauci, to talk Covid-19.
Forum | Opinion

Leon Panetta taps an old friend and man of the moment, Dr. Anthony Fauci, to talk Covid-19.

  • Pam Marino
  • Mar 7, 2021

Former congressman, CIA director and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta has a lot of friends in high places to draw from in putting toget…

Analysis of Covid-19 deaths in Europe fails to account for what Sweden’s less restrictive policies get right.
Forum | Opinion

Analysis of Covid-19 deaths in Europe fails to account for what Sweden’s less restrictive policies get right.

  • Jonathan Lipow
  • Jan 7, 2021

Sweden has attracted a lot of hostility due to its refusal to implement draconian lockdowns in response to Covid-19. Since March, articles hav…

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