Thursday, August 26
New plan to govern Fort Ord criticized by city and business leaders.
The long-awaited draft of a new plan for the governance of Fort Ord was unveiled last week, only to be roundly criticized by local business people as coming too late, and by the mayors of ...
Critics say hair testing's long view of drugs ingestion defies both science and ethics.
If you think having to pee in a cup to satisfy a drug-testing program at your company is degrading, check out the newer, refined corporate drug-testing method: testing hair. It's less humiliating, more dignified. This ...
Peninsula group begins search for a permanent space for women to gather.
It was Virginia Woolf who articulated the need of creative women for a fixed income and "a room of one's own." Several women on the Monterey Peninsula are trying to meet that second need with ...
Thursday, August 19
Beth Atkin spent 15 years training to be a dancer. A back injury scuttled that career, but Atkin brings a dancer's grace to the simple, but beautiful portraits of migrant children included in her book
Through the media of poetry, photographs and meticulously transcribed interviews, a portrait emerges of the children largely ignored in the Salinas Valley. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not ...
Assembly candidates are basing their approaches on the experience of recent elections.
When Assemblywoman Andrea Seastrand's district moved entirely into San Luis Obispo County last year, the Monterey Bay area lost its last Republican representative. Conventional wisdom has always said that the area is more liberal than ...
It takes attitude and ingenuity to be a woman mechanic.
When Anita Lopez was a little girl, her father used to invite her to watch him work on the family car. "He used to say, 'You want to learn this? Come over here and look," ...
Life in the limo biz isn't all champagne and roses.
When your car is longer than your boat, you've made it. A limousine is about as major as status symbols get. Not many people can afford the $50,000 to $80,000 it costs for that kind ...
Thursday, August 12
Local youth get their kicks flying high on homemade ramps.
"If you go out on the street here, you'll see crackheads and all kinds of crazy people," says 15-year-old skater Lester Reed, pointing out from his house on Noche Beuna Ave. in Seaside. "A lot ...
The Learning Community offers a whole new style of public education.
Choice...vouchers...alternative schools. Talk to just about any parent of school age children and these words crop up. Dissatisfaction with the public school system has prompted parents to seek other options, which generally means jumping to ...
School health officials patch more than just skinned knees.
In a world where young children face health dangers unheard of a generation ago, the role of school nurse has taken on a vital importance, say local school health officials. This issue of the Weekly ...
Thursday, August 5
Karas led Davi in the primaries, but may have failed to follow through in the supervisorial run-offs.
Supervisor Sam Karas came out of the June 8 primary elections looking good. With 8,748 votes to challenger Jeff Davi's 5,153 and a victory in 105 out of 120 precincts. Karas' run-off campaign looked like ...
For AIDS and cancer patients, marijuana can make a life-or-death difference.
When Kenny Jenks, a hemophiliac, and his wife, Barbra, developed full-blown AIDS, all that kept their appetites up and the nausea down was a couple hits of marijuana a day. Neither had ever been a ...
In forfeiture cases, balance has nothing to do with justice.
It was a year ago that Marina resident Leenett Lumpkin took her restless two-year-old to Marshall's in Sand City. Distracted by the child, Lumpkin left her purse in a Marshall's shopping cart. This issue of ...
Santa Cruz surfer Aaron Ahearn is in deep trouble with the military over what he says are environmental politics.
Overlooking a bluff in Santa Cruz is an icon more dear to locals than their famous roller coaster. Permanently searching for the perfect wave, his long board towering over him, stands a bronze surfer. This ...
