Thursday, April 27
Fixing the Dam Problem
San Clemente Dam seismic safety project opens for public review.
Finally, the public has an opportunity to comment on the nearly useless—albeit dangerous—San Clemente Dam on the Carmel River. Late last week, a draft environmental impact report on the seismic safety project for the dam ...
Identity Poetics
Sandra Cisneros speaks from her Latina heart.
>>LIT As a graduate student in the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the acclaimed writer and poet Sandra Cisneros felt alienated by a discussion of French philosopher and literary critic Gaston Bachelard’s 1958 book, The ...
Rent a Bush
For this Carmel Valley native, “W” stands for second career.
A guy with the same goofy shrug and simian ears as President George W. Bush is telling a story. “The lady just had to have her picture with W and Ozzie Osborne in front of ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
BUILT TO SPILL | You in Reverse | Warner Brothers It’s been a while since Built to Spill has released any new material. Following 2001’s Ancient Melodies of the Future, Built to Spill’s driving force, ...
Letters
Letters
THE BUSINESS OF BUSINESS IS TO MAKE MORE MONEY. PERIOD. Ironically, the coverage of the sale of Knight Ridder in the March 23-29 issue says more about the sorry state of “journalism” today than about ...
Laird bill would cut red tape in Food Stamp program.
A bill working its way through the legislature will make it easier for thousands of Monterey County residents to receive food stamps. Central Coast Assemblyman John Laird says AB 3029, the Food Stamp Simplification Act ...
Alien Nation
One ‘Day Without Immigrants’ is enough.
>>THELOCALSPIN avorite scene in the 2004 movie A Day Without a Mexican shows a leaf-blower flailing around wildly on the ground, as if it had been suddenly abandoned. In the background, a purple low-rider bumps ...
StreetTalk
Asked at the Monterey County Superior Courthouse.
Q: What is our government doing well? Follow-up: What issue receives too much coverage? CATHERINE MANNING | Retired Model | Seaside A: Taking over our lives. They’re censoring us and taking away our freedom of ...
Bling Bang
How $107 million of West Coast rap king Suge Knight’s money got divvied up in a Monterey courtroom.
On Nov. 14, 2005, a SWAT team filed into the Monterey courthouse and took up positions around the third-floor courtroom, automatic weapons at the ready. Outside, more law enforcement personnel patrolled the halls and balcony, ...
Hambrook’s inspires shoppers to go once, twice for deals.
“Be skeptical,” warns Holly Le Roy. “Everyone at the auction is an expert.” Le Roy is the general manager at Hambrook’s Auction Center, the largest auction facility on the Central Coast. He’s standing in the ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: Artistas Unidos | Back Porch Fabrics | Breakthrough | Carmel Art Association | Carmel Foundation | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Concepts Carmel ...
PublicCitizen
Ongoing Any Volun-teens? | MONTEREY—The City of Monterey invites teens, ages 13-16, to volunteer for summer positions at spots like the Sports Center and the Harbor Division. Deadline for applications is May 8. Call 646-3719 ...
Riverfront Retreat
Riverfront Retreat
Broker Eric Marsh seems to magnetize unusual and beautiful properties, some owned by those already confident of his sensibilities and skills. The Carmel Valley Riverhouse, owned by Joseph Batilega, is his most recent find and ...
American Beauty
The Notorious Bettie Page follows the career of an enigmatic centerfold from the ’50s.
Where would we be without the twinned female icons, Bettie Page and Louise Brooks? We’d be minus two of the most influential hairstyles in history, of course. Both Page, the ’50s-era pinup model who soared ...
Family Planning
Jim Morgens and siblings still want to develop September Ranch.
Jim Morgens starts up a dirt road that winds through a tree-dotted pasture off Carmel Valley Road. A half-dozen cows graze at the bottom of the incline, and horses stand in paddocks near an old ...
Simple Blessings
I’LL BE BACK… I am told that there are a few of you out there who read this slice of simplicity with any regularity (now there’s an important word—none other than the great Louis Armstrong ...
Just Plain Good
Marina Seafood Italian Restaurant (soon-to-be Bella Luna) offers great value.
Given its library-catalog name (Marina Seafood Italian Restaurant) and lackluster location (next to a laundromat in a strip mall), it’s not hard to figure out why this modest gem feels undiscovered. But for some folks, ...
Dread Air
United 93 re-opens the Sept. 11 wound with intense visceral impact.
Maybe United 93’s writer/director Paul Greengrass got some of the verbal details wrong in his account of the fourth Sept. 11 plane that never reached its Capitol Building target, as evidenced by the cockpit recordings ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
“VILLAGE” SQUID’S ASS…The other day Squid was driving...OK, speeding north up Highway 1, tailgating some codger in a Hummer, when Squid caught glimpse of a massive construction next to the highway near Marina (Squid was ...
TheaterListings
TheaterListings
Links to theater/stage organizations within this section: | CET & Indoor Forest Theater | MPC Drama Dept. | MoCo Theatre Alliance | Pacfic Rep | Unicorn Theatre Please check back another week for future theater ...
Deal Or No Deal
Marina City Council stands firmly behind Wal-Mart.
Using logic incomprehensible to some, Marina City Councilman Gary Wilmot predicts that Wal-Mart will spark a revival in Marina’s downtown. “Eventually, Wal-Mart will leave Marina,” says Wilmot, who admits that he was irked upon learning ...
A Great Breton
Natalie MacMaster brings a dazzling fiddle style from Nova Scotia.
Cape Breton Island possesses one of the more vital but lesser-known traditions in the far-flung world of Celtic music. With the emergence of the beautiful, virtuosic fiddler Natalie MacMaster, the small Scottish-inflected communities off the ...
Thursday, April 20
The Real Work
FoodChain
FOOD PLANET… “Motherhood, all love begins and ends there.” I once gave my mother a little plaque with that quote on it. The most important mother of all, Mother Earth, is the subject of GABRIELA ...
Prairie Fire
Garrison Keillor brings some heat to his humor.
Weekly: What are you doing on this speaking tour? Keillor: I get up in front of people and I talk. I walk out and sing a song—I might sing “The Frozen Logger,” or “Woop a ...
The Eskanol Band
The Eskanol Band
Anthony “The Kid” Chavez figures that he has played music around the CSUMB campus more than anyone except maybe the once ubiquitous Erhman Hall of The Nancy Boys. As a member of the extremely popular ...
Letters
Letters
A CHURCH FOR EVERYONE Thank you to Mark C. Anderson, and for sharing the ideas of Jay Bartow, a pastor of Monterey’s First Presbyterian Church for over 30 years [“God and War,” April 13-19]. Fifteen ...
Sea, Rock, Sky
Sea, Rock, Sky
The Carmel Highlands was once considered too out-of-the-way. Property was not especially coveted, land costs not especially high. Houses only began to sprout here like sunflowers on steroids after the dot-com boom was well into ...
Friendly Fire
Venezuelan official brings revolution to the streets of Monterey.
After talking for more than two hours in Monterey, Fernando Vegas needed to jump in a car and ride to San Francisco, where an early morning radio show awaited his appearance. But Vegas, a Venezuelan ...
Oldtown Rocks
La Perla hosts rockabilly show this weekend.
In recent months, Salinas’ La Perla Restaurant has been serving up live punk and rockabilly bands along with gigantic burritos and all-you-can-eat breakfast specials. Starting in late January, local promoter Meana Sanchez and her Mean ...
Is the Bush administration planning another war?
>>OPNION I have argued for quite some time that the talk of a US military attack on Iran was essentially bluster, and that it could not occur because it would be totally irrational from the ...
Voice of a Generation
Kurt Elling brings heart and soul to MJF’s Next Generation Festival.
Kurt Elling never participated in jazz competitions when he was an aspiring musician, but he fully appreciates the emotional stakes involved when young players lay it on the line in front of respected pros. The ...
The Progressive Rockers
The Progressive Rockers
At first glance, Slices of Home’s Mason Rothschild and Joseph McCarthy seem like an odd pair. Rothschild, a Music and Performing Arts major with a curly halo of brown hair, gets almost manic when speaking ...
Learn Mandarin
Full Moon is good preparation for a new era.
Maybe China taking over the world isn’t so bad, as long as our new Mandarin landlords are as nice as Nobe Shirchan and we get to eat sizzling rice soup every day. Shirchan is part ...
The Singer/Songwriter
The Singer/Songwriter
Though Ryan Bisio came to CSUMB as a basketball player, the self-described “prolonged senior” will leave the school next fall as an accomplished singer/songwriter. Bisio, looking the part in a frayed corduroy jacket and a ...
The Rappers
The Rappers
Inside of CSUMB’s blandly named Building 2002, behind the door to room 202, which is adorned with a picture of Spongebob Squarepants and his friend Patrick, Jerome “S.K.” Johnson, Tre “Yung T” Burford and Javier ...
Lost Souls
Director Wim Wenders explores the inhabitants and the landscapes of the West with
Cameras are rolling on the set of Phantom of the West, a mawkish Western shooting in the Moab desert, but leading man Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) is nowhere to be found. A washed-up alcoholic loser, ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
ONE SQUID’S INK… Squid is a little bit anxious and a little bit excited—but not all that surprised—to see that the hipsters at the Salinas Californian are getting set to launch a cool weekly newspaper. ...
Power Pop
Quetzal brings message of unity to CSUMB.
A lot of bands that are talented enough to sell records end up selling out. They sign away their name and image to some major record company in exchange for widespread promotion and a distribution ...
Life’s a Trip
Go inside the carnie psyche.
At the corner of Fremont Street and Broadway last Thursday afternoon, employees of the American Traveling Shows set up candy colored rides and booths for their four-night stint in Seaside. They’ll be gone by Monday, ...
A New Friend
Jennifer Aniston plays a poor housemaid with rich friends in director Nicole Holofcener’s
Four close friends form the cornerstone of the brilliantly observed Friends With Money, three who have it, one who doesn’t. Even by LA’s pricey Westside standards, the characters played by Frances McDormand, Joan Cusack, and ...
Not So Fast
Marina Planning Commission could derail Wal-Mart.
On April 27, the Marina Planning Commission will accept public testimony on whether a developer misled the panel last fall about its plans for the old K-Mart site in downtown Marina. The developer, Tallen and ...
Smell of Progress
Respecting the Earth doesn’t require disrespecting noses.
831>>TALES FROM THE AREA CODE There are lots of ways to celebrate the Earth on April 22. But the truth is, most of them will make you stink. For example, you could take that old, ...
The Pop Rockers
The Pop Rockers
Meeting with the band Brea at a table set up in CSUMB’s North Quad, it seems like the band has already made it in the music business. As I ask questions about their three-year career, ...
Sound Education
CSUMB produces a diverse musical collection.
It’s 11pm on a school night, and coeds from nearby CSU Monterey Bay are packed into the Lava Lounge, a small rock club located inside downtown Monterey’s sprawling Club Octane, to see the alternative rock ...
Bright Future
The Next Generation Cometh.
The Next Generation Festival kicks off on Friday at 7pm with a free concert by some of the top jazz musicians here to adjudicate the student competitions. Held in the Portola Plaza’s DeAnza Ballroom, the ...
The Political Pop Artist
The Political Pop Artist
Freshman Andrea Blunt’s “Revolution” is one of the most striking contributions on Out of Order. With an almost angelic voice, Blunt sings about societal concerns like Medicare, the FCC and the unrealistic expectations created by ...
Back for More
Developer announces “new” plans for 14-story Salinas hotel, rents space to Assembly hopeful, Mayor Anna Caballero.
Gerry Kehoe isn’t back. The Florida-based developer who was stripped of his exclusive right to develop property in the 100 block of Main Street last August hasn’t crept back into Salinas, quietly closed escrow on ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: Artistas Unidos | Back Porch Fabrics | Breakthrough | Carmel Art Association | Carmel Foundation | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Concepts Carmel ...
Chartering Survival
With local districts moving away from charter schools will the County pick up the slack?
With the future of Monterey Bay Charter School hanging in the balance, its director David Hill turned to Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (MPUSD) for help. Late last year, Hill asked MPUSD, the county’s largest ...
PublicCitizen
Thursday 4|20 Humanitarian Warrior | MONTEREY—Simon Schorno has seen the horrors of war up close. He’s a regular visitor of Guantanamo internees, and tonight, he details humanitarian efforts aimed at victims of war. 7pm. Monterey ...
Street Talk
Asked in downtown Albertson’s in Carmel
Q: Why do sex-related issues take up so much time and energy in politics? Follow-up: Free association — “same-sex marriage.” EVELYN EAGLE | Retired | Carmel A: I wish I knew; it’s getting overwhelming. I’d ...
Politics for the Planet
Remembering the first Earth Day—again.
>>THELOCALSPIN I have been writing about the environment for exactly 20 years. I can still remember the first time I wrote a piece to coincide with Earth Day, in April, 1986, probably because it had ...
Thursday, April 13
Out of the Ordinary
Out of the Ordinary
Knowing that Stone Oak Cottage was remodeled on spec, and understanding that many local properties are, and appreciating that most have brought Carmel-by-the-Sea into a residential theme quite Southern European in concept, one probably wouldn’t ...
PublicCitizen
Ongoing Calling Salinas Youth | SALINAS—The City needs teens to serve on the Youth Commission to promote concerns of Salinas youth and advise the City Council. Applications due by 5pm, April 26. Get one at ...
Rapid Relatives
The Phinny family is quickly building a race dynasty.
The family is phast. Ryan Phinny, a 15-year-old junior at Carmel High, was going 100mph in a go-kart before he was 14. His brother Brandon is already doing 80 at age 11. Both have won ...
People’s World
Global Majority maps a hopeful future.
>>THELOCALSPIN Boatamo Mosupyoe, a black South African and a member of the Monterey-based peace group Global Majority, lost her husband and a child during the struggle to end apartheid. Now a professor at Cal State ...
Street Talk
Asked at Corral De Tierra Market in Salinas.
Q: WHAT IS MISSING FROM THE AMERICAN LIFESTYLE? Follow-up: What do Americans do better than anybody else? DIANNA WILLIAMS | Store Manager | Salinas A: Recreation time. People are always hustling and bustling around trying ...
No Big Boxes Here
Seaside’s two new retail developments tout plazas and pedestrians.
The architectural plans projected up on the screen were admittedly preliminary. But Seaside City Councilman Darryl Choates already recognized the type of retail development he doesn’t want to see at the Seaside Main Gate Shopping ...
Double Vision
There’s something very familiar—and very unfunny—about Disney’s The Wild.
Hollywood’s creative apocalypse may be upon us now for I have never seen a film so blatantly like another as The Wild is like last year’s Madagascar. Legal professors could stand these two flicks side-by-side ...
Steely Don
A long-awaited third solo album finds Donald Fagen exploring the romantic edge.
As he walks the corridors of his New York record company—grey sweatshirt, black jeans and white trainers—a strange fact suddenly strikes Donald Fagen: “Nobody here knows who I am.” Twenty somethings with immaculately ruffled hair, ...
Fort Ord developers make move on Central Marina desalination plant
Across the globe, drinking water is growing critically scarce. In some countries, people have died defending their rights to it. But in Marina, according to data being used by Marina Coast Water District (which supplies ...
Up the Road
D.B. Walker keeps the Delta blues alive in his Pescadero country home.
Good luck trying to buy a hard copy of D.B. Walker’s debut CD Stage Road Blues right now. Released back in 2000, the 10-song album has sold out several times since its first pressing of ...
Teenage Tragedy
Paperwing pushes boundaries with Lolita.
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. ...
Same as the Old Bosses
No surprises in Carmel elections.
A young meteorologist threatened to rain on incumbent council members’ parade, a Dogman went missing and Sue McCloud made do without bagpipes. But when election officials had finished tallying Tuesday’s ballots by hand, the Carmel ...
No More Rain, ‘kay?
STICK STUFF… Just when I was lauding the reasonable rainy season, glaringly lacking in mudslides and road closures, wouldn’t you know it kept on raining, mud began sliding and roads were compromised throughout the state…it’s ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
GHOSTFACE KILLAH | Fishscale | Def Jam Fishscale, which refers to highest-grade uncut cocaine, reintroduces us to the equally undiluted Ghostface Killah, the Wu-Tang Clan’s fiery righteous thug. The hottest commodity on Fishscale isn’t pure ...
Letters
Letters
HUMAN RIGHTS NEED US SUPPORT Sadly, recent US decisions concerning the new UN Human Rights Council indicate a retreat from our leadership role in human rights. For many years, both conservatives and liberals have criticized ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
TRICK SURVEY… Squid thinks surveys are fun. But even Squid, who’s short life and mushy brain make for a pretty distorted outlook on the world, can see that the survey Wal-Mart’s officials mailed to Marina ...
God and War
Local religious leaders offer ways to understand the conflict in Iraq.
Rev. Jay Bartow of First Presbyterian Church of Monterey recalls the first time he had trouble reconciling war with his world vision. “I was 8 years old,” he says. “I asked my dad, ‘Why are ...
The torrential rains bring different spring wonders.
It was supposed to be a wildflower hike—we should have known better. The bit of sunshine Saturday was just a break in the soggy gloom, and peak wildflower season is still weeks away. Still, we ...
Second Helping
Pasta Mia Ancora! returns in all its glory—and with some new ideas.
With all due respect to F. Scott Fitzgerald, that business about there being no second acts in American lives is a bunch of hogwash. Just look at Maureen Signorella, who sold Pasta Mia six years ...
R&B Warriors
Night Shift hones the old-school faves at b-ball games.
The biggest names in popular music usually play the gigantic Oakland Coliseum Arena. U2, the Rolling Stones and the Beastie Boys have all graced the stage of the enormous complex. But, no band has played ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: Artistas Unidos | Back Porch Fabrics | Breakthrough | Carmel Art Association | Carmel Foundation | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Concepts Carmel ...
Sleeper Hit
Time creeps by for two teenagers in the Jim Jarmusch-influenced Duck Season.
Duck Season, you could say, is about experience. And inexperience: Its protagonists are adolescent boys who’ve seen too much and yet not enough. For the first 20 minutes or so, it enacts their soul-rotting torpor ...
Thursday, April 6
Street Talk
Asked at Trader Joe’s in Pacific Grove.
Q: What would happen if worldwide immigration was totally legalized?Follow-up: If you could import any food from any country, what would it be? BILL BANTNER | Cabinet Maker | Pacific Grove A: There would probably ...
With
Even in Hollywood, there’s such a thing as artistic hubris. And no, Vin Diesel’s believing he could pull his weight in Sidney Lumet’s latest courtroom drama isn’t this week’s best example. It would be Sidney ...
Over the Hill
Old guys stay fit by riding hard.
>>OUTSIDE Ron Riley clicks the gearshift next to the handbrake on his mountain bike. His neck is arched. His head is still. Taut veins bulge from his forearms as he confidently grips the handlebars. Click! ...
Actor’s Jam
PacRep presents a one-man show with a lot of characters.
If you’re looking for a nice, relaxing play to soothe your work-jangled nerves, PacRep’s Fully Committed is not for you. If you’re looking for a manic and hilarious show that features virtuoso acting, writing and ...
SquidFry
SquidFry
WHAT’S SPANISH FOR ‘LEGALESE?’… A long time ago, in a galaxy far away (the Monterey Courthouse), Supervisor DAVE POTTER predicted to Squid that the COUNTY GENERAL PLAN update process would end at the ballot box. ...
Hot to Foxtrot
Ballroom dancing catches fire with PG students after school.
Two warm bodies come close to each other. Closer still. The male’s hand rests on his partner’s hip. One of her arms falls on his shoulder. Then the music starts, prompting both bodies to sway ...
Pop Noir
Pop Noir
In Lucky Number Slevin, a fast twitch opening sequence torn from the pages of Tarantino’s playbook introduces Bruce Willis as a cunning and calm assassin with the gift of gab. Before you can say, “Kansas ...
Abnormal flight school draws students from all over.
Marwood Coe drove 14 hours down to the Peninsula from British Columbia for one reason. It wasn’t the Aquarium. It wasn’t Carmel Valley’s wineries. It was the radio-controlled airplane flying lessons. Coe stands in a ...
Rusty Sterling makes friends at OT.
It didn’t look good when the Redwood City-based band Rusty Sterling and Friends walked into Ocean Thunder about two months ago. The group had never played there before, and when vocalists Kerry Kimble and Erica ...
DiscSpace
DiscSpace
SOUTH | Adventures in the Underground Journey to the Stars | Young American Frequently soft and sleepy-voiced, South is hardly an overwhelming band. The trio’s last album, 2003’s With the Tides, was full of ambient ...
PG’s money woes may mean higher taxes.
Pacific Grove City Manager Jim Colangelo is preparing America’s Last Hometown for what he calls the inevitable: higher taxes. It’s an idea that was hinted at by his predecessor, Ross Hubbard, but according to Colangelo, ...
Of Ponies and Paradise
Of Ponies and Paradise
APROPOS OF NOTHING… I’ve never been horseback riding. Oh, once when I was a little kid I sat atop a pony and got walked around at a fair or something. That’s barely one step beyond ...
General Mess
Wal-Mart proposal doesn’t follow Marina’s general plan.
According to the City of Marina’s general plan, all regional retail sales stores must be built at the University Villages development site. By all accounts, Wal-Mart is a regional retail store, and the Marina Landing ...
The hometown will rock at Good Old Days music stages.
There’s a lot going on at Pacific Grove’s Good Old Days this year. Families can wander around and be entertained by everything from vintage fashion shows to a dog show that bills itself as “magical ...
Robbers strike Pacific Grove credit union three times in three years.
At about 1:15pm on St. Patrick’s Day, a man walked into Pacific Grove’s Monterey Credit Union, handed a note to a pregnant teller indicating that he had a gun money, and robbed the place. It ...
ArtListings
ArtListings
Links to galleries within this section: Artistas Unidos | Back Porch Fabrics | Breakthrough | Carmel Art Association | Carmel Foundation | Center for Photographic Art | Chapman Gallery | Coast Gallery | Concepts Carmel ...
PublicCitizen
Thursday 4|6 Take Back the Night | SEASIDE—CSUMB’s Multicultural Feminists Group, Empower, Theta Alpha Sigma Sorority and Residential Life host the annual Take Back the Night speak-out and march to protest sexual violence. 6-10pm. CSUMB ...
Never mind Moussaoui, the smoldering gun was right there all the time.
Anyone paying attention to the Zacarias Moussaoui trial gets it now. All the 9/11 blanks are filled in, and the picture is complete. Sorry, conspiracy freaks and blind partisan hacks. Dull, common, gross incompetence is ...
We Are Everywhere
A nation of immigrants responds to a new reality.
>>THELOCALSPIN It put some people’s teeth on edge, seeing all those kids skipping school last week, marching around, waving all those Mexican flags. It pushed some buttons. I mean—look at them. Thousands of them. Tens ...
The Producer
Moctesuma Esparza—Hollywood producer and owner of a budding chain of theaters—is still a crusading activist.
Two Sundays ago, Moctesuma Esparza arrived at LAX at 1am after a whirlwind weekend promoting the new HBO film Walkout, which he produced and Edward James Olmos directed. It may have been coincidental that during ...
Musical Relations
John Pizzarelli pays tribute to his jazz legacy at Sunset.
For John Pizzarelli, jazz is a family business, and not just because he’s the son of esteemed guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli. A suavely swinging vocalist and guitarist with a gift for delivering brisk and breezy standards, ...
A Little Big House
A Little Big House
The sign on the façade says “The Hobbit House” but owners Jerry and Sandy Wetle call it the villa. Hmmm. An exploration guided by the pretty and diminutive fire-sparkle Sandy proves those polarized titles accurate. ...
Not Just for Breakfast
Beer’s for cooking and food pairing too.
What Ramsay Borthwick is about to say will no doubt inspire debate. “Everybody thinks that wine and cheese go great together,” the Scottish import says with an apologetic grin. “They don’t. Wine tends to coat ...
Letters
Letters
THE HAIR APPARENT I want to express appreciation for your excellent coverage of the talk by NEA Chairman Dana Gioia at the Steinbeck Center last week [“Political Poet,” March 3-April 5]. Chairman Gioia’s message—that the ...
On the Trail
Candidates vie for Salinas mayoral seat, wait for final green light in June.
The two candidates for Salinas mayor aren’t all that much different from one another in theory. Dennis Donohue and Maria Giuriato each say they’d like to control the gang problem, get libraries back on track, ...
