Who's watching us--and why? Coast Weekly's Constitutional issue focuses on privacy.
In keeping with a long-standing tradition, we are dedicating our Fourth of July edition to an issue relating to what we feel is a fundamental right of American citizens. This year Coast Weekly looks at ...
Issues / 1997 / Jul 03
We have government-recognized rights to privacy.
Civil rights and liberties are expressed in the Constitution as abstractions. They need to be translated into the reality of flesh-and-blood human experience. When the Supreme Court failed to do this, it created a growing ...
When it comes to open government, privacy is a double-edged sword.
California's sunshine laws include the Brown Act, which keeps local government meetings open to citizen attendance, and the Public Records Act, which keeps official documents likewise accessible to review. This issue of the Weekly was ...
Vacation rental opponents seek to air their ire before coastal commission.
When the Monterey County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance legalizing short-term house rentals last April, several years' worth of debate on the matter seemed poised to subside... This issue of the Weekly was published ...
Welfare reform prompts interest in becoming an American.
Last August, President Clinton signed into law welfare reform legislation that, among other things, will bar people who are not citizens from receiving financial assistance and medical coverage. With that stroke of the pen, he ...
Speaker Pro Tem Sheila Kuehl eschews "gay activist" label.
Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Sheila Kuehl doesn't have a definite topic picked out for her upcoming speech in Monterey, But when a reporter asks about a statewide domestic partners registry bill and her sponsorship of ...
With Friends Like These...
Calls are starting to resound throughout the Salinas Valley for the resignation of Lawrence Porter, a director of the Monterey County Water Resources Agency (MCWRA) who last week joined a suit against the very agency ...
Shore Thing
Monterey County land-use issues will figure prominently during the California Coastal Commission's July 7-10 meeting in Ventura. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not been digitally uploaded. To read ...
High Tech Mail
Seven postal routes in downtown Salinas have been eliminated, with new high-tech automation filling in the gap for the old-fashioned two-legged postal delivery method. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and ...
Sundance Monterey?
Construction could begin as early as October for a mixed-use residential/retail development that would mean art house movies-and less parking-in downtown Monterey. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not ...
