IT’S A LITTLE BEFORE 6PM ON A TUESDAY IN CASTROVILLE INSIDE THE NORTH COUNTY RECREATION CENTER, the community’s familiar gathering place for k…
Katie Rodriguez here, thinking about how much money it takes to run a county each year, where that money comes from, and where it should go—qu…
On June 20, the County Board of Supervisors approved a $2 billion budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year. Just three months later, looking ahead t…
When Monterey City Manager Hans Uslar addressed his city council, staff and the public in his Feb. 15 State of the City speech, he began on a …
Decades ago, two buildings – one from 1968 and one from the mid-1970s – were joined to form Salinas City Hall. Now, the property is getting re…