Marina Momentum
Projects lining up for military outpost revival.
The city with the most developable land on the Monterey Peninsula, it’s daunting to keep track of all of Marina’s potential projects. Here’s a short list of proposals in the pipeline. Downtown Vitalization: This plan ...
Split Decision
Bruce Delgado is Marina’s unlikely fiscal conservative, while opponents want to raise taxes – and put off an Otter invasion.
After hearing each Marina department head say martial law will ensue if they take an 18 percent cut, Mayor Bruce Delgado fervently rattles off possible excesses in the city’s budget: nearly $400,000 for the human ...
Issues / 2010 / Apr 22
Layoffs averted in P.G. school district.
Faced with the prospect of nine layoffs in the Pacific Grove Unified School District, the Pacific Grove Teachers Association voted Monday to take two furlough days next school year. The pink slips, which were handed ...
Salinas budget committee to release report.
A blue-ribbon budget committee is expected to announce ways to restructure Salinas government and alternatives to address a more than $12 million deficit next fiscal year when it presents its final report to the City ...
Local cities buck the Sacramento money grab.
California's local governments want Sacramento to step off their funds. That's the message of a signature-gathering campaign led by League of California Cities in response to the state's siphoning of $5 billion from counties and ...
Abel Maldonado to be sworn in as Lieutenant Governor Tuesday, April 27.
Maldonado finally won the Lieutenant Govenorship on a 25-7 vote Monday, April 26. This is his second nomination to the post vacated by John Garamendi. When Maldonado failed to win confirmation in the Assembly in ...
State agriculture department sued for alleged violations in light brown apple moth program.
The state's light brown apple moth program is back in court. On April 19, Oakland public-interest fim The Law Offices of Stephan C. Volker, filed suit against California Department of Food and Agriculture, Secretary of ...
Coastal Run
Photos from the 25th Big Sur International Marathon in the Weekly's photo blog.
Runners from all over launched from Big Sur Station at 6:45am for the start of the 25th annual Big Sur International Marathon. View photos from staff photographer Nic Coury at the photo blog: http://mcweekly-photoblog.blogspot.com/
Produce safety session coming to Seaside.
As the Food and Drug Administration prepares to pitch a nation-wide food safety standard, the Produce Safety Project will host a discussion with growers, retailers and other stakeholders on Monday in Seaside. The meeting, which ...
Judge's ruling today could restrict future water flow for the Peninsula.
The state's cease-and-desist order against California American Water is now in effect: Judge Kevin Murphy of the San Jose Superior Court lifted the freeze on the order this morning. Cal Am will immediately apply for ...
Gang Sweep
Salinas gang bust nets 92 arrests, 40 pounds of cocaine.
Standing in front of a table full of cocaine bricks and vacuum-sealed pot, Attorney General Jerry Brown today revealed an eight-month law enforcement sting targeting Salinas gangs that has netted more than 90 arrests so ...
Special Edible
A Carmel restaurant revolution lives, and hot dogs get stuffed in faces.
A year ago, it seemed unlikely that Carmel would ever have a high-quality eatery open late, let alone a reliable late-night dance party spot. Now the hamlet has both, and both Basil and Mundaka—which sit ...
Oceans
Oceans documents the captivating lives of marine animals.
This year, Earth Day (a day to “inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment”) is marked by the release of Oceans, a lush documentary about the magnificent waters that cover more than 70 percent ...
Bitter Medicine
Dueling unions battle for the loyalty of Salinas Valley hospital workers.
I t’s D-Day for Ernesto Gonzalez and a team of workers campaigning in a hard-fought union-versus-union contest at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital. The Service Employees International Union, the nation’s largest, is battling the former leaders ...
Real Estate
By The Numbers
$600,000 Recent Sale (Land) 38010 Rocky Creek Road, Big Sur Size: 42.5 acres Amenities: Paved roads, water, underground utilities, woodlands, ocean views Seller: RE Loans LLC Buyer: Joan Hain, Jennifer Allen and Steven Foster Broker: ...
Big Blowback
Local gray whale conservationists protest international hunting compromise.
On Earth Day, April 22, the International Whaling Commission will receive a draft proposal to overhaul international whaling regulations – a move negotiators say could reduce hunting by up to 50 percent, end the illegal ...
The Losers
A Soupçon of Snark: The Losers wins by not pretending to be anything more than featherweight fun.
You’re not too long into this wickedly wonderful little smashup of fluff – maybe 20 minutes or so – before you think, “Wait: Did this open with a ‘previously on The Losers’ segue?” It didn’t, ...
Squid Fry for Apr 22, 2010
Squid Fry for Apr 22, 2010
BLACK OUT… Eddie Edwards, longtime DJ, party-thrower, club owner and agitator, is done at his landmark brick club on North Fremont. Say what you want about the shoot-from-the-hip, at-times-loveable, at-times-plain-ornery personality, but he is also ...
Pork Politics
Underground sausage and high-minded Cooking for Solutions.
It went down like some kind of drug deal. He told me the description of his truck, and asked me to meet him in the lot of a shopping center. I brought the cash. He ...
Fishy Proposal
Enviros call for more scrutiny of county’s steelhead-blocking project.
W hile Monterey County officials this week touted the oft-delayed opening of the Salinas River rubber dam, another water controversy is percolating downstream. On April 26 the county Water Resources Agency board is scheduled to ...
Letters to the Editor for Apr 22, 2010
Water’s Worth Thanks to Kera Abraham and the Weekly for your coverage of the recent debate over how to solve our water supply problems (“Hot Water Battle,” April 15-21). I believe the Peninsula and the ...
One of the County’s Great Lueders Steps Down
Community Foundation CEO retires after almost three decades of remarkable service.
When Todd Lueders took a job with the Community Foundation for Monterey County back in 1981, he worked out of a one-room office in the basement of the Monterey Museum of Art. At the time, ...
Twang Thang
Billy Currington charms the Fox in Salinas with clever country.
Georgia’s Billy Currington can do lazy afternoons, sweet tea and fried chicken dinners. But his country comes with a twist to the classic, often woeful, mainstream music. Put differently, he leaves the cowboy hat and ...
Get Involved
Public Citizen
THURSDAY 4|22 WATERFRONT PLANNING | MONTEREY—The city hosts its second community meeting on the Waterfront Master Plan, covering San Carlos Beach to Window on the Bay. 6:30pm. Del Monte Beach House, 285 Figueroa St., Monterey. ...
If you moved to another planet, what would you miss most?
Asked at Ryan Ranch in Monterey.
Follow-up: What three things would you take with you? DIANE HYDORN | Innkeeper | Carmel A: The beauty of Earth and Earthlings. Kin Keeper: I’d bring my family: seven children, their partners, and lots of ...
Brezsny's Astrology
Free Will Astrology
Aries (March 21-April 19): “Although obstacles and difficulties frighten ordinary people,” wrote French painter Théodore Géricault, “they are the necessary food of genius. They cause it to mature, and raise it up… All that obstructs ...
The best of this week's web exclusives.
Stalled Cars…Clean and green electric cars could roll off assembly lines at the old Firestone plant in Salinas this summer—more than six months behind schedule. Manufacturer Green Vehicles awaits a major grant from the California ...
Big Five
A handful of bands for $5 means a lot of rock at Jose’s in Monterey.
On eBay, $5 can buy a switchblade comb, flowering moose nuggets, a fart extinguisher or boss-be-gone pills. This Friday, $5 buys access to a versatile, five-band lineup at Jose’s. The Taphandles – from the overcast ...
Art Listing for Apr 22, 2010
Art Listing for Apr 22, 2010
HAPPENING THIS WEEK CARMEL VALLEY ART STUDIO TOUR Carmel Valley presents a characteristically upscale yet eccentric studio tour. An abstract garden sculptor, a jazz-inspired contemporary painter, a landscape photographer, a needlepoint designer, an abstract ceramicist ...
Killer Crossover
Kronos Quartet’s mean talent and daring taste tackles everything from Hendrix to Icelandic rock.
“I’ve always wanted the string quartet to be vital, and energetic, and alive, and cool,” David Harrington, violist and founding member of the Kronos Quartet, once said, “and not afraid to kick ass and be ...
¡Ask A Mexican! for Apr 22, 2010
One man's take on his culture's stereotypes
Dear Mexican: I have a friend who frequently wears a T-shirt that boldly states in big, bad-ass, Old English letters, “Hecho en México.” Five facts follow: *He was born 23 years ago in the United ...
Real Deal
Yama Sushi rolls up creativity with a discount.
“Pocket Monster” and “Mr. Bulgogi” are not punchlines to dirty jokes. They are two of the more than 50 artful maki creations offered at Yama Sushi. It’s that lengthy lineup and a standing 50 percent ...
HER Helmet Thursdays cuts carbon emissions and costs.
Iasked a local businessman what Earth Day brought to mind. His response: “Taking a day off from oil.” Not a bad idea. And it’s not only doable; it can be fun. A Monterey Bay Aquarium ...
Out of the Fog
The landmark Street of the Sardine captures a little-seen Cannery Row to great effect.
Most people know Cannery Row as it stands today: gaudy, light-hearted and lined with tourist attractions and sweet confections by day; glimmering with lights and IMAX movies, and pulsing with music from Sly McFly’s and ...
Buddha on the Beach
Key Dalai Lama monk leads Blessing of the Waters in Carmel.
an extraordinary event will take place at Carmel River Beach this Saturday, April 24. Khenpo Karten Rinpoche, one of the Dalai Lama’s principal teaching monks, has been asked to lead Monterey County’s participation in Masaru ...
Monterey produces some of the nation’s top non-proliferation experts.
When President Barack Obama brought the leaders of 47 countries together last week to talk about keeping weapons of mass destruction out of terrorist hands, he had an assist from Monterey Institute of International Studies ...
The Energy Source
After talking to NPS students and faculty, energy guru Amory Lovins spoke to the Weekly.
On April 20, the chairman of Rocky Mountain Institute, Amory Lovins, delivered a lecture at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. The renowned scientist has been spreading the gospel of safer energy use (which he ...
Farr pushes bill banning animal cruelty videos.
Congress is pushing back against the U.S. Supreme Court's April 20 decision sanctioning videos of dogfights and other images of animal cruelty. The 8-1 ruling, viewed as a First Amendment issue, struck down an earler ...
