The People Be Dam[n]ed
Cal-Am won't take no for an answer. Can they really build a dam in the face of voter disapproval?
It was just last November when the Monterey Peninsula Water District (MPWMD) asked voters if the district should raise $116 million and begin construction of the 24,000 acre-foot New Los Padres Dam (NLPD). This issue ...
Issues / 1996 / Nov 27
On Their Own
Independent study teachers say program is fraught with problems.
A program designed to allow approximately 250 Peninsula students to study at home saddles teachers with an unreasonable workload and is so poorly organized that students may not even be getting an adequate education, let ...
SART is Smart
A new program helps rape victims and prosecutors through the system.
It's evening in the hospital emergency room. There's an elderly woman who has severe abdominal pain, a baby with a high fever, and a patient arriving via ambulance. This issue of the Weekly was published ...
