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Other Voices

Beth Atkin spent 15 years training to be a dancer. A back injury scuttled that career, but Atkin brings a dancer's grace to the simple, but beautiful portraits of migrant children included in her book

Through the media of poetry, photographs and meticulously transcribed interviews, a portrait emerges of the children largely ignored in the Salinas Valley. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not ...

Issues / 1993 / Aug 19

Lessons Learned

Assembly candidates are basing their approaches on the experience of recent elections.

When Assemblywoman Andrea Seastrand's district moved entirely into San Luis Obispo County last year, the Monterey Bay area lost its last Republican representative. Conventional wisdom has always said that the area is more liberal than ...

Ms. Goodwrench

It takes attitude and ingenuity to be a woman mechanic.

When Anita Lopez was a little girl, her father used to invite her to watch him work on the family car. "He used to say, 'You want to learn this? Come over here and look," ...

In the Driver's Seat

Life in the limo biz isn't all champagne and roses.

When your car is longer than your boat, you've made it. A limousine is about as major as status symbols get. Not many people can afford the $50,000 to $80,000 it costs for that kind ...