Thursday, January 26
A new brand of civil rights is headed your way, California.
First it was Proposition 187--the ballot measure targeting illegal aliens that won the overwhelming approval of California voters on Election Day. Now it's civil rights legislation that's coming under attack. This issue of the Weekly ...
The November Republican sweep could spell the end of California's environmental protections.
Sam Schulat stood bleakly watching the state and national election returns on the evenin gof Nov. 8. He felt as if an enormous wave was rolling across the country from the East Coast, drowning the ...
School, law enforcement officials say they're not worried.
Sitting in the Pacific Grove Library, reading books, Josh and Dave (not their real names) look like regular high school sophomores--with baggy sweatshirts, sneakers, talking low under their baseball hats. But their stack of books--all ...
Thursday, January 19
That Dam Flood
Would the new Los Padres Dam have helped avert flooding? Reactions are somewhat mixed--even within Monterey Peninsula Water Management District (MPWMD). This issue of the Weekly was published in print only and has not been ...
Salinas moves to save money, increase turnout at the polls.
When Mark Dierolf's Salinas business license fee in doubled in 1994, "I was pretty upset," he says. "Instead of raising our fees, why don't they cut? Let's talk about making the city government more efficient." ...
Sierra Vista says the battle for DLI ain't over yet.
Stand back Monterey. Sierra Vista, Arizona is not going to lose the battle for the Defense Language Institution (DLI) without a fight. Two years ago, Monterey city leaders mounted a $200,000 campaign that convinced military ...
Art Attack
"The arts are being sacrificed for the sake of politics." warns Dave Cloutier, executive director of the Cultural Council for Monterey County, who is one of many local artists and public officials concerned about the ...
A Vermont trail-blazers takes the lead at CSUMB.
Chatting on the telephone from rain-soaked California with the rest of the world absorbed in footage of swollen creeks and disappearing canyons, Peter Smith has bigger fish to fry. This issue of the Weekly was ...
Mike Armstrong brings leadership, expertise to water resources agency.
Mike Armstrong, the new general manager of Monterey County Water Resources Agency (MCWRA), knows he will be entering turbid waters on Jan. 23 when he takes over the storm-tossed agency. This issue of the Weekly ...
Executive Officer Leslie White surveys the landscape of reuse.
Leslie White looks out a window of his Fort Ord Reuse Authority (FORA) office on the old Fort Ord campus, for the first time and likes what he sees. Rolling, plant-covered dunes, underlined by the ...
Thursday, January 12
Fort Ord Demo
The Army decides this month whether Fort Ord will be a demonstration site for environmental cleanup, where studies evaluating technologies and the impact of community involvement will take place. This issue of the Weekly was ...
Amy Masumi Leatherman, Leslie McNeely, Alex Negret, Sabrina Demayo, James Bond, Dewayne Barnes.
When I was bound for Long Beach High School in New York there were race riots that would explode into violence with baseball bats, young girls wearing razor blades in their hair for when it ...
Consolidating service could mean improved emergency serivces.
Better late than never. That's the consensus among frustrated and angry north and south county residents over the proposed consolidation of ambulance service that county health officials hope will eliminate the fragmentation in the current ...
Thursday, January 5
Sylvia Quarles, Bruce Ariss, Chuck Noroian, Claire Ford-Broecker, Paulette Lynch, Stephen Moorer.
What makes a hero? We believe it's someone who is willing to take a risk, make a stand, and sacrifice personal time or dollars in order to see a dream through to reality. Some heroes ...
The Sanctuary's only long-term pollution monitoring program is in jeopardy.
Mussel Watch, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary's only existing long-term monitoring project, is scheduled to be discontinued in June according to Mark Stevenson, director of marine pollution studies for the California Department of Fish ...
Local program helps growers donate gleanings.
"Donate don't dump" is the rallying call of FOOD (Food Organizations Organizing and Distributing) Crops, a non-profit group dedicated to gleaning and distributing excess produce to organizations feeding the hungry. In 1994, this call yielded ...
