Thursday, January 31

No Room On the Tee

Women and Golf

Consider that Greg Norman, the top money winner on the PGA tour last season, won two tournaments and finished in the top ten 11 times and took home $1.17 million. This issue of the Weekly ...

Beating A Dead Horse

Crazy Horse Expansion

Considering the city of Salinas wanted to build it without an environmental impact report, the proposed expansion of the Crazy Horse Landfill sure seems to have a lot of environmental impacts. This issue of the ...

Thursday, January 24

Drop By Drop

Water: Bridging The Gaps

During a meeting last December, the Salinas City Council del into a discussion about water conservation, debating what steps to take to ease the water shortage and protect the Salinas aquifer, which is rapidly being ...

Gulf Aftermath

When It's All Over

What begun several years ago as a border dispute between Iraq and Kuwait has now degenerated into a virtual world war. The issues between the to countries--money and land--seemed eminently resolvable, but once Iraq invaded ...

N Opposition

N Opposition

The Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District has businesses and commercial property owners in a panic over the implementation of Measure N, which will tax property owners to raise money to purchase shoreline property. This issue ...

Thursday, January 17

Teach the Children

Whose History Is It?

If you were in elementary school during the early 1960s or before, you probably remember studying America's Westward Expansion. You read about the courageous pioneers who braved cold winters and savage Indian attacks as they ...

Pay to Play

New Beach Fees

For most of us, the escalating cost of living is something we accept, however reluctantly. Wo when the California Parks and Recreation Department recently implemented a plan charge entrances fees at beaches that had previously ...

Thursday, January 10

Sheriff Hicks

Looking Ahead

What did Monterey County's new sheriff do Tuesday, his first day on the job? "I got in around 7:15, packed up my old office, moved into my new office, and had a physical." recounts Norm ...

Facing Our Own Guns

How the U.S. Armed Iraq

For almost a decade the reagan administration, in apparent violation of federal law, engaged n a massive effort to supply arms and military supplies to the regime of Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. This ...

Friday, January 4

The Big Fix

Our County's 1991 Agenda

Let's face it, the economy is our bread and butter. With a strong economy, everything works: schools teach, roads are smooth, crime declines, and generally, opportunities abound. In setting the 1991 agenda we need to ...

Marketing Monterey

Exporting Monterey Goods

With 700 workers at two Simplot plants in Salinas now out of work because the firm decided it could no longer compete against cheaper frozen vegetables coming in from Mexico, the saga continues of local ...