Cops and medics surround Francisco “Frankie” Torres in front of the Castroville fire station. His face bleeds after Monterey County Sheriff deputies arrested him at his nearby home. The Sheriff’s...
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In the morning of June 26, Carmel-by-the-Sea’s headquarters are calm. Administrative Coordinator Becky Reisdorf takes calls by City Hall’s service window. Employees occasionally cross the hall from the planning department,...
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Sign up for higher property taxes. It’s good for your wallet, your county and the planet.
That’s the message from supporters of a local “clean energy revolving fund,” a pot...
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The senior housing developer Marina kicked to the curb is coming after the city for cash. Cypress Knolls LLC is suing Marina for more than $320,000, the amount the company...
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SHOVEL READY… Monterey County’s first federal stimulus project has broken ground, or, more accurately, been installed in the ground. It’s a traffic signal at Oak and Front streets in...
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MUSICAL RESUSCITATION… Last week we detailed the financial downfall of Monterey Liveand the void its closure created in the local music scene. Blue Fin Café & Billiards on...
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Last year’s wine grape season didn’t give Monterey County growers any reason to uncork a celebratory bottle. Because of extreme weather, wine grapes lost 5 percent in value last year,...
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In recent years, the raciest public scandals in prim Carmel-by-the-Sea have involved a charity calendar of semi-nude senior women and a school superintendent who got caught driving drunk.
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Campfire smoke coiled through late afternoon sunbeams as Alisa Fineman sang “Corridor,” an original song inspired by a drive down Highway 1, at Sunday’s Save the Parks rally at Pfeiffer...
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Beneath the jazzy stage and revered concerts at Monterey Live was a rickety financial foundation. While touring bands passed through, an absent landlord accumulated debt and a club owner took...
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Tom Rosewall is an unlikely climate champion. He wears impeccable Italian leather shoes, slicks back his Bill Maher hair and has a propensity to talk about himself in the third...
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California’s countdown towards a “meltdown” continues.
The joint legislative conference committee has been meeting this week – but has yet to come up with a solution to the state’s $24...
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California’s aggressive climate change legislation calls for a reduction of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by 2020. Hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs) have the potential to cut emissions from passenger...
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Animal House… Last week we reported the Hartnell College Board of Trustees voted to ax its Animal Health Technology Program, despite allegations of Brown Act violations. The Monterey County...
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KING CITY BAILOUT… A $13 million loan to bail out King City Joint Union High School District is slowly making its way through Sacramento. On June 8, SB 130...
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Brushing off accusations of violating the Brown Act and muzzling student testimony, Hartnell College’s Board of Trustees axed its Animal Health Technology Program on June 8. Students, mainly women seeking...
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They’ve already slashed staff, raised taxes and partly privatized the museum. Now, Pacific Grove city officials are digging even deeper to balance the 2009-10 budget.
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Monterey County’s 2009-10 budget is balanced – for now. But this is likely to change as the state struggles to fill its own nearly $24 billion deficit, according to county...
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Assemblywoman Anna Caballero (D-Salinas) says she’s seriously considering a run for the California Senate. With Sen. Jeff Denham termed out and Supervisor Simón Salinas, a former assemblyman, recently bowing out,...
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Most don’t know that prickly sharks have spines on the scales of their upper bodies, that they live in deep, dark waters or that they are endangered.
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Sandra Rangel depends on a monthly state check to put a roof over the heads of her 13-year-old twin sons and 3-year-old daughter. The Castroville single parent lost her job...
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The financially desperate state of California may have the power to take more money from local governments. But the county of Monterey, and most of its cash-strapped cities, are crying...
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Salinas Valley growers feared a repeat of Delano. In 1970 Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers successfully won a contract with major grape grower Giumarra after violent clashes in...
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Staring down the $24.3 billion budget hole, the state’s facing cataclysmic cuts – slashing school funding, the wholesale elimination of welfare payments and medical coverage to kids, closing 80 percent...
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BIG-BOX BROUHAHA… Wal-Mart won – sort of. The Salinas City Council Tuesday, June 2 repealed its big box ordinance and directed staff to negotiate with the giant retailer over how...
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