Thursday, July 29
Government agencies grope their way through the muddle of base closures.
When a television reporter at a Fort Ord press conference last month asked for a response to a question "in plain English," Deputy Assistant Security to the Army Lt. Col. Paul Goodwin's stern face melted ...
Local leaders tell how they plan to keep salt water--and the state Water Resources Control Board--out of the Salinas Valley.
Ed Boutonnet knows about seawater creeping into the Salinas Valley's water supply. "It is very, very serious. It's not something that is going to go away until it is attended to properly," says Boutonnet, general ...
Ralph Nonella practices the lost art of free diving.
"You gotta hyperventilate and relax at the same time," says Ralph Nonella, smiling. And he does. Floating placidly on the surface of the blue Monterey Bay waters, Nonella breathes through a snorkel--once, twice, three times--then ...
KBOQ's sale raises questions about the marketability of classical radio.
Even in the midst of the world-famous Carmel Bach Festival, local fans of classical music are worried that the recent sale of radio station KBOQ 92.7 FM (fondly known as "KBACH") will mean the end ...
Thursday, July 22
Local advertisers slowly realize the buying power of Spanish-speaking consumers.
When The Monterey County Herald supplement La Voz succumbed last month, the Salinas-based weekly El Sol became the only Spanish language publication in all of Monterey County--a county where nearly one resident in four would ...
She's Pat's daughter and Jerry's sister, but state treasurer Kathlleen Brown is a political force in her own right--quite possibly the Democrat's answer to defeating Pete Wilson in '94.
On the day after her father was elected governor of California in 1958, Kathleen Brown, age 14, was headed downtown on Muni to keep an appointment with her dentist. On the bus she she saw ...
It's neck-and-neck supervisor candidates in the scramble for vacation-time votes.
Supervisorial candidates in three different districts are anxiously counting every potential vote in the hopes of eking out a victory in what is likely be a low-turnout election on August 3. This issue of the ...
Seaside officials remain optimistic about Embassy Suites development.
The only visible signs of the development that's been slated for eight years as a new Embassy Suites hotel are the foundation pilings that were driven in the ground late last year. This issue of ...
Thursday, July 15
Farmworkers learn the basics of growing their own farming business.
"This is our classroom," says Ann Baier, education and development director of the Rural Development Center (RDC), an agricultural training program and resource center. "It's a large piece of land with some tractors, water, tools, ...
Monterey County, state officials clam down on San Juan Bautista's wastewater discharge.
The city of San Juan Bautista in San Benito County could face up to $25,000 a day in fines if it doesn't upgrade its sewage treatment system by October 1 and remedy outflow problems that ...
Thursday, July 8
Growers, environmentalists wonder how NAFTA will reconcile health and safety standards.
If you believe free trade won't affect US environmental and consumer protection laws, think again. At least one consumer protection law has already been placed in jeopardy as a result of free trade with Canada. ...
Ricketts' purchase puts Monterey in the new position of directing and funding historical renovations.
"Custodians of a legend that makes Cannery Row work." That's how Eldon Dedini describes the 17-member group he belongs to that owns the plain wooden building on Cannery Row known as Doc Ricketts' Lab. This ...
Thursday, July 1
The Cooper Museum Store has a new home in a historic storefront.
Despite the bold lettering advertising household goods, hardware and other supplies, there hasn't been a store at the location for 80 years. Come Friday night, that's going to change. This issue of the Weekly was ...
For taxpayer groups, Proposition 13 was only the beginning--but is their movement bankrupting schools and local government?
The New York Times photograph that ran two days after the passage of Proposition 13 told the story. There was the stocky, cocky Howard Jarvis and the tall, soft-spoken Paul Gann, their hands clasped and ...
Train travel is scenic, sensible, and something we should support.
The Amtrak Thruway bus and train system offers a wonderful alternative to driving an automobile. Eileen Johnson, in her letter (CW, June 17) describes one of the most inconvenient routes, traveling from Monterey to Ventura ...
Local officials say $250,000 lobbying effort paid off for DLI.
The City of Monterey got what it wanted. The city of Sierra Vista, Arizona didn't. After dedicating $200,000 toward the effort to retain the Monterey-based Defense Language Institute (DLI), Monterey is not only celebrating the ...
