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In November 2018, when voters on the Monterey Peninsula approved Measure J with 56 percent of the vote, they gave the Monterey Peninsula Water…
With January’s onslaught of storms now past, Monterey County officials are counting the toll of rain and flood damage on the local water infra…
As evacuation notices lift and Monterey County residents breathe a collective sigh of relief, growers across the county face months of cleanup…
In December, the Weekly broke news on a truly cringeworthy moment in the ongoing effort to produce an environmental impact report on the Monterey Downs project. That moment: In response to a Public Records Act request, the city of Seaside accidentally released a confidential attorney memo that discussed the fact there isn’t enough water for the full build out of Downs, the homes-and-horse-track project proposed for development on part of the former Fort Ord. As a result of that accidental release, and the subsequent reporting by this newspaper and other media, the city decided to hold off on releasing the draft EIR that same week.
For years, gridlock has been the leading narrative to describe Congress. But California state lawmakers did better: they sent 1,074 bills to G…