Each year, movie studios pour hundreds of millions of dollars into making movies. Are you getting all they paid for at local movie theaters?
A century ago this year, in Paris, the first building was erected for the sole purpose of showing moving pictures. It had only been two years since Louis and Auguste Lumiere presented the first exhibition ...
Issues / 1997 / Sep 04
Pulling The Switch
In response to the pending state deregulation of the electric power industry, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has announced plans to auction off three of its fossil fuel power plants, including the Moss Landing Power ...
Labor, management learn to negotiate Peninsula lodging issues
The Pebble Beach company and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 483 are making nice as they negotiate a new labor agreement, and why not? Employees at the Lodge at Pebble Beach are ...
Burning Issues
Reports that last week's 700-acre fire at Ford Ord may have been the result of unexploded ordinance igniting and jumping a controlled fire line highlights the discrepancies between state and federal cleanup standards and regulations ...
Election Corrections
Next Tuesday the Monterey County Board of Supervisors is expected to give final approval to a new set of campaign finance disclosure rules that supporters say will improve the campaign process in Monterey County elections. ...
Morning-after contraception is uncomplicated and amazingly available
Sixty percent of all pregnancies in the United States are mistakes. It is estimated that half of those unintended pregnancies are the result of contraceptive failure. The rest are the consequence of no protection at ...
A residenial lot's metamorphosis into a natural wonder
Located unexpectedly on a privately owned residential plot in the floodway of the Carmel River Valley is a hideaway for butterflies. The site is easily missed. But the owner of the lot, Dr. Abraham Kryger, ...
Three decades ago, the oil tanker Montebello sank six miles west of Cambria. There it remains.
As a testament to the West Coast's notoriously short memory, the oil tanker Montebello has a few challengers. Torpedoed by a Japanese submarine off the San Luis Obispo coast in 1941, the Montebello and its ...
