Issues / 2006 / Nov 02
Stay Fresh
SLOW DOWN, BABY…People are too busy. We live in one of the most laid-back areas in this country, yet everybody is running around, cell phone stuck in an ear, rushing from appointment to appointment…in the ...
State Propositions
Endorsements 2006
PROPOSITION 1A ~ Transportation funding Protection NO — California receives $3.4 billion a year from the state excise tax on gasoline; under the state constitution that money can be used only for roads and other ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
WAYLON JENNINGS | Nashville Rebel |RCA Nashville/Legacy Waylon Jennings’ rebellious years came in the ‘70s, when he and Willie Nelson popularized Outlaw music and its cocaine-fueled lifestyle. Jennings bucked the RCA production team that oversaw ...
What We’ve Lost
Leon Panetta recalls a slightly better political era.
>>THELOCALSPIN Since talking to Leon Panetta last week, I have been feeling nostalgic for a time I didn’t much care for. Surrounded by the noise and nonsense of this election season’s crescendo, I imagine the ...
Monterey County Elected Offices, P.1
Endorsements 2006: Del Rey Oaks, Marina, Monterey, Pacific Grove
• DEL REY OAKS MAYOR | Joseph P. Russell Running unopposed might be a politician’s favorite two-word tango—up there with “solemn duty” and “free parking.” Barring a flurry of write-ins, the former Navy serviceman and ...
Winning Ugly
Local political battles turn nasty.
With the November election less than a week away, local Democrats and Republicans are calling each other racists, liars and thieves. The racism charge stems from a mailer touting state Sen. Jeff Denham’s education platform, ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: Artistas Unidos | Back Porch Fabrics | Breakthrough | Carmel Art Association | Carmel Foundation | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Concepts Carmel ...
Valley Wonder
Valley Wonder
On three contiguous lots, in a park-like setting with the ancient shoulders of giant rocks shrugged above ground, a huge, flat, thick lawn spreading under sky-high trees deeply encircled by flowers and rimmed with river-rocks, ...
Dump-side Development
County looks to build industrial park near Fort Ord landfill.
Monterey County has identified a prime parcel to develop for contractor and light manufacturing tenants. It’s located near the ocean and accessible to future housing developments on Fort Ord. One minor blemish: the land is ...
Guitar Gods Converge
In difference venues, Kottke and Lang revive ’70s acoustic moment.
In 1974, Leo Kottke and Peter Lang appeared together, along with John Fahey, on an untitled album now known as the “Trinity Record.” Released on Fahey’s Takoma Records, the three-way LP showcased the technical and ...
Letters
Letters
DEMONS ARE REAL Huge thanks for the article about the talks-to-the-dead guy [“Chasing Ghosts,” Oct. 26-Nov. 2]. I am still hurting from laughing so hard! Amazing how we humans are so gullible to even consider ...
Endorsements 2006
AROMAS-SAN JUAN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | Jeff Hancock ~ Robert Quaid This district of 1,200 kids in three schools was hit hard by state cuts. Its two elementary schools ranked abysmally low on statewide tests. ...
The Radical Centrist
After a career at the center of national power, Leon Panetta is comfortable back in his hometown. But he has not retreated.
WEEKLY: You recently became a member the Iraq Study Group, formed by Congress and headed by James Baker. Do you believe it is possible to find a strategy other than “stay-the-course” or “cut-and-run”? How do ...
Monterey County Elected Offices, P.2
Endorsements 2006: Salinas, Sand City, Seaside
• SALINAS MAYOR | Dennis Donohue While we have deep respect and admiration for Maria Giuriato for her lifetime dedication to local government on boards, committees, and the City Council, we think Donohue comes to ...
Endorsements 2006
ALISAL UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT:MEASURE A YES—This bond will raise $93 million needed to repair some of the worst conditions in any district countywide. Problems persist throughout the school district: Wiring is shot, rooms are so ...
Street Talk
Asked at Albertson’s in Marina.
Q: How can we get more people to vote? Follow-up: If you could have one cartoon character in office, who would it be and why? BEN MASON | Courtesy Clerk | Seaside A: Sex sells—have ...
Suspended Disbelief
Salzburg Marionettes bring Mozart’s The Magic Flute to life.
Ninety three years is a long time to dance. But these aren’t your average dancers—far from it. The 14 marionettes that arrive here this week all the way from their hometown in Salzburg, Austria, are ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOING HOLIDAY FOOD DRIVE | COUNTYWIDE—Food Bank of Monterey County seeks community members to help with food drives. The bank provides barrels, bags and ideas; schools, businesses and agencies place barrels where people donate food. ...
Pie in the Sky
A Pizza Paradise is a place in Marina.
If heaven doesn’t serve pizza, I’m not interested. Then again, should the Pearly Gates Food Court lack that slice of the good life, perhaps I could help broker a deal with a pizza-maker from down ...
No Trust In Trustees
Hartnell teachers want to recall board members.
Stepping out of closed session, Hartnell College Board President Steve McShane tells the dozen or so teachers in the room that it will be another half hour before the trustees finish reviewing the unionized instructors’ ...
A car company tries to turn a profit with an assist from the coastline.
Certain product endorsements just make sense—Michael Jordan promoting a sneaker, a gecko representing Geicko Car Insurance. Here’s another natural: Pebble Beach backing a car. Of course, Pebble Beach is not a person or a cheeky ...
Lawyer says General Plan Initiative needs to be on the ballot.
Proponents of the General Plan Initiative have filed a motion in federal court that they hope will speed up a process that allows voters to weigh in on the slow-growth ballot measure. Attorney Fredric Woocher, ...
State Offices
Endorsements 2006
GOVERNOR | Arnold Schwarzenegger Vote for Arnold because he recently signed some of the most progressive environmental laws in history. Vote for Arnold to teach the Democratic Party a lesson about running “safe” candidates (read: ...
Fully Committed
Sacha Baron Cohen creates fearless satire for the ages with Borat.
There are fans of sincere musicians and daring visual artists who profess that their idols are all about their art. But I dare anyone to watch Sacha Baron Cohen dash naked through a full hotel ...
Smart and Final
Why this author will never be a member of Mensa.
You only get one shot at genius. I learn this from Lynne Powers, a sweet retiree from Marina, and Bruce Dick, an owlish Department of Corrections teacher from Monterey, who are serving as test proctors. ...
War of the Words
A look at how comedian Sacha Baron Cohen angered the government of a Central Asian country.
Even before the release of his film Borat: Cultural Learnings for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen had gotten the Kazakhstan government so riled up with his portrayal of a fictional ...
Still Howling
Four new books celebrate the 50th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg’s epic poem.
The poem that built, if not the ’60s, at least the era’s counterculture, turns 50 this month. “Howl,” Allen Ginsberg’s great, bellowing yawp in the face of modernity, was first published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
COPS HIRE RENT-A-COPS… Far be it from Squid to tell anyone how to run an institution, but the SALINAS COURTHOUSE hasn’t exactly been a model for how to do it right. First there was the ...
Thomas Friedman’s wealth is a frame on the world.
>>OPINION A few weeks ago my column was a parody of how Thomas Friedman writes about the global economy. Since then, I’ve learned that I was in error on a matter that shines some light ...
