In the surreal world of immigration policies, three man patrol three and a half counties, and their quarry is often back within days.
It is the silence that speaks the loudest here. It echoes through room after green-hued room of this particular US Border Patrol station that squats on Alisal Street, beyond the lettuce fields of Salinas. This ...
Issues / 1995 / Sep 28
Discovery of a dummy grenade raises questions about UXO on campus.
The discovery last week of a phony hand grenade on the new college campus at Fort Ord was an explosive reminder of a once-vociferous debate on whether the Army acted rashly in conveying the 1,365-acre ...
Salinas High board faces challengers.
If elected in November, candidates for three seats on the Salinas Union High School Board of Education can look forward to immediately facing such problems as overcrowding, inadequate capacity for technological instruction, classroom violence and ...
Literacy may reduce prison time--and recurring crime.
Prisons today are bursting at the seams and Soledad Correctional Training Facility, with 6,149 inmates (over twice its capacity) in the south part of the county, is no exception. This issue of the Weekly was ...
