Thursday, April 24
SLO County's rights to Nacimiento could dry up Salinas Valley wells.
San Luis Obispo County is planning to start taking drinking water from Lake Nacimiento, a move that in drought years could cause some wells in Monterey County to dry up. This issue of the Weekly ...
A panel of land-use experts tries to sort out some fundamental truths about property and community rights in Montery County.
Who really owns this land of ours, and what, if any, rights does ownership imply? That was the fundamental question guiding the queries posted to a panel of local experts who were asked last week ...
Boston-based for-profit takes over Tri-Counties Blood Bank
Seeking a financial transfusion to compete in the increasingly aggressive health care industry, Salinas Valley's sole supplier of blood products has recently agreed o be purchased by a corporation whose goals include lower prices and ...
Thursday, April 17
Teddy Bear Patrol
Policeman on patrol in Seaside, Monterey, Carmel and Marina will soon have company. Soon many Peninsula patrol cars will be fully equipped with a teddy bear, courtesy of the Monterey Bayside Bears, a new organization ...
Accusation, denial and counter-accusation are the order of the day at Seaside City Hall.
Steve Prelsnik, president of the Seaside Firefighters Association, offers an anecdote that he says is illustrative of Seaside City Manager Tim Brown's management style. According to Prelsnik, once during a meeting at the fire station, ...
UFW rally just the beginning for growers, workers.
Watsonville is a town of 35,000 inhabitants, with one foot in Mexico and one in California. The name of it's downtown chicken joint even makes an inside joke about it's origins. El Pollero is an ...
Cleaning products industry takes aim at earth-friendly dirt busters.
A simple mixture of vinegar, lemon juice and water may be a safe, non-toxic formula to clean your windows, but under a controversial new policy proposed by the California Environmnetal Protection Agency (Cal EPA), this ...
Thursday, April 10
Peace Pipes
Concerns by North County farmers over the qualifications of the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency (MRWPCA) to operate the Castroville Seawater Intrusion Project may have been put to rest with a plan to create ...
Hispanic farmers and government officials find ways of saving the soil.
A major effort underway in Northern Monterey County to limit soil runoff from the strawberry fields into Elkhorn Slough has turned to help from a source sometimes neglected by environmental policy--the Hispanic farmers growing strawberries ...
Who's minding the legal fees in your town?
There are, to paraphrase an old TV show, eight million stories in the naked city. In any given year, hundreds of those stories may have to do with claims against the municipality where you make ...
Thursday, April 3
Room at the Inn
What do an old Monterey house and American Youth Hostels have in common? Nothing, until now. With the help of a grant from the California State Coastal Conservatory, the Central California Council of American Youth ...
Local fisherman learn the fine art of politicking to keep their industry alive.
Mike Stiller never wanted to be a politician. He is a fisherman, by trade and in his soul. But when Stiller started hauling salmon full-time back in the late '70s, he quickly learned that if ...
Mercury News reporter Gary Webb brings his controversial message to local audiences.
Last August, the San Jose Mercury News ran a three-day series by staff reporter Gary Webb that was almost too sensational to believe. Webb's controversial series "Dark Allegiance" alleges that during the Reagan years, crack ...
What the most recent RSC court decision means.
Win, lose or draw? That is the question still being asked in the wake of last month's ruling by Monterey County Superior Court Judge Robert O'Farrell granting a request by the Ventana Chapter of the ...
Monterey is unique and historic--and fast disappearing
This country's national character is currently being shaped by corporations whose signs and ubiquitous collective presence are turning our towns into cookie-cutter shopping malls and stripping the of their unique personalities. What we are witnessing ...
With burgeoning retail sales and a population of just 200, Sand City has clearly hit the big time.
A recent meeting of the Sand City Council began with an invocation from a local minister who said, "Because this city believes in God, great things are happening here." And yes, one could argue that ...
