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Monterey-Salinas Transit gets a new smartphone app.
News

Monterey-Salinas Transit gets a new smartphone app.

  • David Schmalz
  • Mar 23, 2017

Lisa Rheinheimer stands in the Monterey Transit Plaza, her iPhone in hand, and watches the next bus on the “Jazz” line approach on her phone, …

Local Spin | Opinion

Your microwave isn’t spying on you. Here’s what is.

  • Mary Duan
  • Mar 23, 2017

I tried not to make eye contact as I opened the door, slid the package inside and walked away…

Here’s what your lawmakers did in Sacramento last year.
News

Here’s what your lawmakers did in Sacramento last year.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jan 5, 2017

“Dumpster fire” had an outside chance of becoming Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016. It was the year beloved celebrities including …

The very best handful of new restaurants for Monterey County in 2016.
Eat + Drink

The very best handful of new restaurants for Monterey County in 2016.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Dec 29, 2016

It was an omen, a hint, a harbinger. At our booth sat Giuseppe Panzuto, author of arguably 2015’s best new Monterey County restaurant, il Tega…

Changing fast-casual times and El Charrito coup in Oldtown Salinas.
Eat + Drink

Changing fast-casual times and El Charrito coup in Oldtown Salinas.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Dec 15, 2016

One self-imposed rule of this column: Don’t write about chains, because there are far too many family-owned restaurants that merit this space,…

The gig economy has taken over many full-time jobs, but the biggest changes are yet to come.
Cover

The gig economy has taken over many full-time jobs, but the biggest changes are yet to come.

  • Nick Rahaim
  • Nov 23, 2016

Driving his Mazda 3 through the streets of Salinas, Mark Gurley, a 54-year-old fond of Hawaiian shirts, watches his smartphone chirp as he is …

EDIBLE: Breakthrough benefit involves barbecue, a unique band and tales from the morgue.
Eat + Drink

EDIBLE: Breakthrough benefit involves barbecue, a unique band and tales from the morgue.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Nov 10, 2016

When you’ve seen – and heard – a man open another man’s skull with a saw, you tend to listen to what he has to say.

Is Monterey reaching peak Poke?
Eat + Drink

Is Monterey reaching peak Poke?

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Sep 22, 2016

That was fast.

Local Spin | Opinion

Explaining an editor's note and a unique bullying court case.

  • Apr 21, 2016

An editor’s note about the editor’s note you’ll find on the opening page of this week’s cover story, about the sudden rise (and, if parents and local school administrators have their way) hopeful fall of the smartphone app Ogle…

New apps take high school bullying and threats to a new level.
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New apps take high school bullying and threats to a new level.

  • Nick Rahaim
  • Apr 21, 2016

New apps takes high school bullying and threats to new lows, and there’s little that can be done to stop it.

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