Thursday, February 27

Best Of '92

CW Best Of '92

Everything's better the third time around, and the CW "Best of Monterey County" readers' poll is no exception. This year's ballot includes more categories than ever before and more readers made more selections than in ...

Snatch The Pebble

PB's new owners

In an atmosphere of Japan-bashing and "buy American" jingoism, it was easy to categorize the former Pebble Beach owner Minoru Isutani. He bought Pebble Beach for the ostentatious amount of $840 million. He was determined ...

Thursday, February 20

Cutting To the Bone

The recession is hitting the government agencies that serve the most needy.

Sacramento faces a $6 billion budget deficit. The federal government a $340 billion deficit. Monterey County is projecting a $4 million deficit. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not ...

Project Censored

Never before has Project Censored's list contained such a clear-cut example of media self-censorship.

After 16 years of policing media self-censorship, Carl Jensen says this year he's finally found a smoking gun. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not been digitally uploaded. To ...

Cherry Picking

Army's Ord Plan

Seaside's hopes of a post-Fort Ord revival got blindsided Friday when the Army released its preliminary plans for a scaled-down presence after the Seventh Infantry Division moves to Fort Lewis, Washington. This issue of the ...

Thursday, February 13

Safer Sex

The condom: don't leave home without it.

Imagine a world where everyone dated, got to know each other, but never really got to know each other, carnally speaking, until nuptials were exchanged. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only ...

Positive Action

Taking the HIV test

The further I read into Sandy Shilts' And the Band Played On, the more worried I became. The evidence was all there. It could take as long as 10 to 15 years before symptoms of ...

Ord for The Needy

Low-income housing

When will the poor of Monterey County get a break? Some say their time has come. Some members of the Fort Ord Task Force Housing Advisory Committee are recommending that low-income families receive 75 percent ...

Thursday, February 6

Gay Rights

Kevin Phillips and the gay/lesbian task force want to unify the gay community.

Imagine that you spent every day of your life hiding a secret about yourself. You worry that your co-workers and neighbors will find out your secret, and that they'll treat you differently from that moment ...

More Than an Oil and Gas Sanctuary

How clean will the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary be?

When the news came at the end of last month that President Bush, at the urging of Governor Pete Wilson, would make the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary America's largest marine sanctuary, a sigh of ...