Issues / 1998 / Oct 29
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the city. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? 3. What do you make of the whole debate concerning the "malling of Alvarado street?" 4. ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the city. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? 3. How well is the city handling redevelopment in the downtown area? What steps, if any, ...
Cartoonist Gahan Wilson laughs in the face of doom.
To gaze upon the works of cartoonist Gahan Wilson is to enter a bizarre yet hilarious world--a world inhabited by cannibals and clerics, jack-booted fascists and unscrupulous tycoons, aliens, aristocrats, scientists, monsters, madmen, gods and ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the city. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? 3. How well is the city handling redevelopment in the downtown area? What steps, if any, ...
Vote for 1
1. Name, occupation, number of years in the city. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? 3. How well is the city handling redevelopment in the downtown area? What steps, if any, ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the city. 2. How much do you plan to raise & spend? 3. How happy are you with Seaside's redevelopment efforts? What steps can the city take to ...
Seaside Council race may provide referendum on management and decide fate of $30 million bond.
For the last four years, as the city of Seaside has been plagued with a host of complaints and dissatisfaction concerning the city''s management, the Seaside City Council seems to have been divided into two ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the city. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? 3. Should new development take place in Marina? Residential or commercial? Where should it be located? ...
Vote for 2
1. Name, occupation, number of years in the city. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? 3. What do you make of the whole debate concerning the "malling of Alvarado street?" 4. ...
Bill McCampbell's fourth attempt at Congress may be a symptom of a polarized Republican Party.
He first ran in ''92 on the Republican ticket against Leon Panetta for the 17th Congressional District seat, and lost. Then he ran again in the ''93 special election to replace Panetta, and lost to ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the district. How much do you plan to raise and spend? Who's endorsing you? 2. What, if anything, can Congress do to buffer the U.S. economy from economic ...
Letters
Thanks, Richard Enjoyed Richard Pitnick's article, "Road to Wellville," (Oct. 15). It was well-balanced and I must admit I was expecting a "left turn" with every paragraph. So much for type-casting "independent journalism." By the ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the district. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? Who''s endorsing you? 3. Should the state become more involved in the preservation of prime ag ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the district. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? Who's endorsing you? 3. Where and how should the county grow? Should the county adopt stricter ...
Who's Running the Show?
Strange Bedfellows As if it weren''t shocking enough that Seaside Mayor Don Jordan is getting $3,000 from Sam Houston, the Aspen-based developer whose tentative local plans include a multi-screen movie theater in Seaside, there''s also ...
Filmmaker Roger Corman looks back on a unique Hollywood career.
Imagine the last several decades of Hollywood filmmaking without the likes of Jaws and Star Wars, or such directors as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, and you''ll begin to appreciate the influence of visionary ...
The Grinch Who Stole Halloween--Let's not let narrow minds deprive us of a heritage older than America.
The people of America are in real danger of losing Halloween to the Christian fundamentalist right, who in the last decade have been working hard to take away this important tradition. Books on Halloween are ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the city. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? 3. Is Sand City too reliant on retail development? Should the city continue to pursue large ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the district. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? Who's endorsing you? 3. Should the state become more involved in the preservation of prime ag ...
Processions and exhibits in Watsonville and Salinas celebrate the Day of the Dead.
Want to get in the real spirit of the Halloween celebration? You might want to check out two area art exhibits and celebrations, one at the Pajaro Valley Gallery and the other at the National ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the city. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? 3. How well is the city handling redevelopment in the downtown area? What steps, if any, ...
Director Bryan Singer does a pretty good job bringing Stephen King's novella to life.
Based on the Stephen King novella of the same name, Apt Pupil is one of those rarest of films, a King adaptation that doesn''t fall flat. It''s not perfect, certainly, but as directed by Bryan ...
Save Our Shores hosts ocean ecologist Carl Safina.
Up until the last decade, environmentalists and conservationists for the most part halted their efforts at the shores. Most overfishing went unchecked. Then came the late ''80s, when evidence of massive fisheries destruction could no ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the city. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? 3. Should new development take place in Marina? Residential or commercial? Where should it be located? ...
Our choices for contested races in Monterey County (plus local and state measures).
State and County offices U.S. Congress, District 17 Sam Farr One of the criticisms levied against incumbent Congressman Sam Farr (D-Carmel) is that he is a career politician. Fair enough. Farr has been a Monterey ...
World Fantasy Convention rolls into Monterey.
While the spooks and ghouls of Halloween roam the streets of Monterey this weekend, hundreds of fantasy fans, authors, and artists from around the world will meet, discuss and admire the best of 1998''s fantasy ...
Acoustic Jazz--John Reischman and John Miller blend bluegrass with jazz.
The appearance tonight (Thursday) of mandolinist John Reischman and guitarist John Miller at The Media Room, billed as an evening of Latin jazz and jazz standards, may surprise folks who are familiar with their work ...
Question Answered
At least one of life''s major questions may now be answered. You know you''ve truly lived if you''ve stood at a produce market in Florence (and I don''t mean Alabama), in the middle of a ...
All Hallow's E'en--Where's all the fun gone?
Between health warnings on too much sugar and suspect treats, warnings of devil worship from the religious right, and adults taking over all the costuming, what''s happened to Halloween? Mark Paul Brown Age: 49 Occupation: ...
The Fong/Boxer race is important to California--and to liberals nationwide.
With just a few days left before the national elections, partisan political oinkers are working overtime polluting the airwaves with the kind of misleading "Am not!...Are too!" accusations guaranteed to turn voters off. Perhaps nowhere ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the city. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? 3. Is Sand City too reliant on retail development? Should the city continue to pursue large ...
Kincaid's Bistro On The Boulevard 10/29/98
A rose is a rose is a rose is the phrase that comes to mind as you chart the evolution of Robert Kincaid's cuisine. Holding strongly to roots grounded in the traditions of classical French ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the city. 2. How much do you plan to raise & spend? 3. How happy are you with Seaside's redevelopment efforts? What steps can the city take to ...
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1. Name, occupation, number of years in the city. 2. How much do you plan to raise and spend? 3. How well is P.G. handling the needs of its community? Is there anything you, as ...
Lou's Life--A new biography of composer Lou Harrison reveals little-known treasures.
Even if you''ve known someone for 35 years, you might be taken by surprise at their five decades of life before that time. Though I first met Lou Harrison in 1963 in San Diego, and ...
