Issues / 2006 / Nov 16
Last Tuesday was not a huge victory for female voters.
>>OPINION Four days before the election, The New York Times ran a front page story declaring that female voters held the key to the Senate race in Virginia between George Allen and James Webb. That ...
Neutral Territory
Salinas gang prevention program is effective, yet unfunded.
Bob Reyes of the Monterey County Probation Department pulls out a one-sided form describing a Salinas elementary student. Boxes are checked for truancy, failing grades and family problems. The referral is typical of what comes ...
The man tapped to take Donald Rumsfeld’s place has skeletons in his closet going back to Iran-Contra.
>>NEWSFEATURE WASHINGTON—While Donald Rumsfeld was Ronald Reagan’s errand boy to Saddam Hussein in the mid-1980s, Robert Gates, the man named yesterday to succeed him as Secretary of Defense, was at the very heart of the ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
THE PIXIES | loudQUIETloud | MVD Back in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, the Pixies were one of the best bands in America. On masterpieces like 1988’s Surfer Rosa and 1989’s Dolittle, the quartet ...
No Easy Way Out
We may be headed on a long, hard path to peace.
>>THELOCALSPIN It is too soon to feel good about the future of Iraq. Events this week remind us that the war rages on, even as a new strategy emerges in Washington that provides real cause ...
Letters
Letters
LEFT-WING ‘CHRISTIAN’ WILL GO TO HELL Sue Braum labeled Mr. Truth as an “extremist” in her letter and wrote “not all Christians are the same.” I would add not all people who call themselves “Christian” ...
What the Democrats should do.
>>OPINION The 2008 Presidential campaign just began. Whatever the Democrats do with their newfound congressional power over the next two years, it will be with the big 2008 prize in mind. Some Democrats want to ...
‘No paper ballots,’ says poll watcher.
A volunteer poll watcher says election officials specifically directed poll workers not to tell voters they had the option of using paper ballots in last Tuesday’s election. This is not illegal. But, says poll watcher ...
Meal Deal
Based on the bestselling book of the same name, Fast Food Nation takes a fictionalized yet disturbing look at this country’s fast food addiction.
For his documentary Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock spent a month eating nothing but items off the McDonald’s menu. The McDiet’s repercussions on Spurlock’s physique provided Super Size Me’s most convincing argument. Fast Food Nation ...
Street Talk
Asked at Monterey Peninsula College.
Q: What is a particularly striking dream that you’ve had recently?Follow up: What is your worst nightmare?CURT ERIKSON | Psychology Professor | Carmel ValleyA: I start out every day asking myself what my biggest dream ...
Soul Search
A local group of givers looks for a leader to keep their generosity going.
It takes 120 turkeys, 15 hams and some 500 pounds of mashed potatoes to feed the thousands of Monterey County residents who gather at the county fairgrounds on Christmas. It also takes hundreds of volunteers ...
Gate Expectations
Marina approves gated community for seniors—with affordable units outside the gate.
A gate with stone pillars will separate the haves from the have-nots at Marina’s recently approved Cypress Knolls development for seniors. The project’s 142 affordable units will be lumped together on an eight-acre plot outside ...
Classic PG Cottage
Classic PG Cottage
Plenty: Plen´ ty (noun) 1.) Full or abundant, enough. This defines May Kay Jones’ cottage, which she proudly says took her six of the nine years she has lived there to remodel. “I knew I ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
NO-HOOKER CORNER…Monterey City officials may want to consider joining Salinas in establishing a prostitution-free zone, and not just for the creative signage potential. (Hmmm, Squid thinks, what would that sign look like?) On Oct. 26, ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
A Taste of Monterey Landscape paintings by Salinas artist Rick Deragon. 127 Main St., Salinas. 751-1980. Alison’s discoveries art gallery Photography by Stan Friedman and Derrick Brown; watercolors by Gabrielle Moroe-Gordon. 19 E. Carmel Valley ...
Night Shift
Working the graveyard with the folks who don’t sleep.
Inside the Denny’s in downtown Monterey, a red-rimmed clock with the chain’s logo hangs above the front door and reads 12am. Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” plays over the sound system as the employees serve ...
Sea Mother
Carmelites will consecrate new Stella Maris shrine at monastery.
On a hill at the end of a long driveway off Highway 1 just south of Carmel, a large structure looks out to the ocean beyond Monastery Beach. A cranelated belltower can be seen from ...
License Renewed
Casino Royale breathes fresh life into the James Bond franchise.
The stylized opening credits sequence is there, though the departure from Maurice Binder’s writhing silhouettes is more pronounced. There’s still a ruthless villain with odd character quirks, but instead of creating elaborate death machines he ...
New-Era Hippies Gather in Big Sur
Vetiver headlines freak-folk fest at Fernwood.
When Vetiver released their self-titled debut in 2004, the CD was heralded as a major work in a new indie music scene that was unfortunately labeled as “freak folk.” The other artists lumped into this ...
Progressive Caucus Rising
Left-wing Democrats will dominate the new House of Representatives.
>>NEWSFEATURE Don’t buy all the crap coming from GOP talking-point memos or the blather from mainstream pundits. The midterm elections do not signal a move to the center. Yes, a few conservative Democrats were elected, ...
Small Wonder
Seaside’s Noodle Bar offers big bargains in a tiny space.
Here the scouting report is almost as succinct as the name of the restaurant. The name: Noodle Bar. The report: small space, small prices, huge value. To wit: Here there are just 10 stools—so the ...
The Spirit’s in the Air
DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES…We’ve had a great run of late-season weather, but it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Ahh Christmas…Right around now is when the holiday deadline pressure starts compressing the diaphragm. Just about ...
Semi-pro boxers make for great storylines at Saturday’s fight night.
Semi-pro boxers make for great storylines at Saturday’s fight night. The Macy’s make-up girl, the New York bartender, the reformed street thug and the collections agent have something in common. They will all attempt to ...
PublicCitizen
ONGOING BILINGUAL PARENTING CLASSES | COUNTYWIDE—Parent Education Partnership offers free parenting classes in English and Spanish. Register now for January 2007 classes. To register, call Michele Huizar, 796-3905. 11|16THURS WORN-OUT WHEELS WEEK | SALINAS—Today though ...
