Thursday, September 30
Despite scores of studies indicating the opposite, Hollywood still says it isn't responsible for violence.
Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon implore the nation to treat Haitians with AIDS more humanely. Robert Redford works for the environment. Harry Belafonte marches against the death penalty. This issue of the Weekly was published ...
ACORN group empowers Salinas residents.
When Susan Hutchinson was sent from Minnesota last January by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) to organize poor people in Salinas, she expected an easy assignment. After all, she had worked ...
Quality, affordable care with continuity is hard to find in Monterey County.
Monterey County parents looking for someone to watch their kids while they work face a triple-whammy of a challenge, say county child care experts. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and ...
Local fishing industry faces the challenges of a dwindling catch.
The Monterey Peninsula's once-thriving fishing industry is facing what members of the industry describe as a "very depressed situation" brought on by a catch that is dwindling as a result of a variety of factors ...
Sunday, September 26
Organic consumers cotton to fibers without chemicals or dyes.
The environmental concerns that prompt consumers to shop organic in grocery aisles have opened up a whole new market in the clothing industry. Now, a growing number of consumers are shopping for cotton products grown ...
Thursday, September 23
Monster Kody grew up in South Central LA and was recruited by the Crips at the age of 11.
In the fall of 1980 the war between the Eight Trays and the Rollin' Sixties was in full swing. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not been digitally uploaded. ...
Is the Marina Greens Business Park an economic boon or an unwelcome neighbor?
The City of Marina is eyeing the green, but residents are still seeing red over the Marina Greens Business Park. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not been digitally ...
Here is something you can't understand.
Alberto is a 21-year-old leader of one of the most violent gangs in Salinas. He was 9 years old and living in Compton when he started gang banging. He was 11 when he did his ...
Thursday, September 16
From keyboards to computers, the electronic age has influenced jazz music. Are the days of traditional jazz numbered?
Long regarded as one of the West Coasts premier music events, this weekend's 36th annual Monterey Jazz Festival provides a special opportunity to celebrate both the enduring vitality and expressiveness of traditional jazz forms, and ...
Salinas Planning Commission may never see plans by Pure Etch.
When Pure Etch, a two-year-old Los Angeles company, submitted plans to open its first West Coast operation in the City of Salinas at a vacant plant east of Sanborn Road, no one thought it was ...
New federal regulations could make vitamins and minerals harder to get.
It used to be that a simple "one-a-day" vitamin supplement was all it took to maximize good health and freedom from illness. Those who took supplements swore they cured everything from nervousness to the common ...
John Garamendi's bid for California's governorship pits him against Pete Wilson--and fellow Democrat Kathleen Brown.
Although California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has not officially declared his candidacy for the 1994 gubernatorial race, he is gearing up for a run he hopes will knock Pete Wilson out of the governor's seat. ...
Thursday, September 9
New program will reward teens for staying pregnancy-free.
Planned Parenthood of Monterey County has been selected as one of three clinics in the state to receive federal money for a controversial pilot program that actually rewards teens for remaining pregnancy-free. This issue of ...
Volunteers find they have to do their own monitoring.
It's been a year since the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary was established, and environmentalists are finding that if they want the job of protecting the Sanctuary to be done right, they have to do ...
A look at manufacturing in Monterey County.
Monterey County isn't exactly known as a manufacturing mecca. Tourism, agriculture--and until recently--the military have been the major contributors to the local economy. This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has ...
Conserving more and wasting less is part of growing a green business.
Caring about the earth isn't something people just do at home. A growing number of Monterey County businesses are cutting down on water and power, recycling and generally working to reduce waste as they educate ...
A growing number of German and Swiss are trading cars for bicycles.
The German city of Heidelberg is world famous as the setting of The Student Prince--a sappy operetta with a plot that revolves mostly around beer drinking and duel fighting. But if Ben-Olaf Rieck gets his ...
Thursday, September 2
Seaside sees revenues in the purchase of Fort Ord's golf courses.
Golfing could prove a profitable sport for Seaside if the city can work out the details of a plan to buy or lease Fort Ord's Bayonet and Black Horse golf courses. This issue of the ...
Gene-splicing yields brave new foods--and lots of new questions for the FDA.
Gene-spliced tomatoes. It just didn’t have the same wholesome ring as sun-ripened raisins or garden-fresh lettuce. So the marketing minds at Calgene Fresh, Inc., brainstormed for a more consumer-friendly catch phrase to introduce the world’s ...
Tough legislation on spousal rape could become a reality despite fundamentalist opposition.
Carolann Peterson says her marriage became a living hell when her husband began to act out his rage by repeatedly raping her. "I was once dragged froma room full of company, locked in the bedroom, ...
