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Fort Ord Defense
Public opposition pushes supes to change course on MST/Whispering Oaks.
Valentine’s Day brought poetry to the County Board of Supervisors. The show of public passion also included entreaties to logic, emotional pleas and angry rants. After hearing from three dozen people adamantly opposed to the ...
A New Acronym for Water Politics
Mayors form Monterey Peninsula Regional Water Authority to tackle supply crisis.
A silence fell over the inaugural meeting of the county’s newest water agency as Monterey Mayor Chuck Della Sala signed the joint powers agreement on Feb. 9. “It’s official,” attorney Russ McGlothlin said as the ...
Marina Coasting
The Water District left behind in the desal collapse can’t even vote on hiring a new GM.
If the defunct Regional Desalination Project hasn’t already pulled Marina Coast Water District into a messy whirlpool, its board members appear to be doing their best to drag each other down into the salty wreckage. ...
Capturing Ingenuity
Sights Unseen project gives cameras and voices to homeless women.
Homeless women, Nancy Ramirez says, “live in a reality that has been marginalized, pushed into one or maybe a few streets in Salinas. “We need to have a conversation about what it means to be ...
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Public Citizen 2.12.12
ONGOING LAND PLANS | COUNTYWIDE—BLM is accepting nominations to three openings on the Central California District Resource Advisory Council, which advises BLM on public lands issues with the goal of providing a balanced outlook on ...
Labor for Health
Clinica de Salud employees may join the SEIU amid allegations of union-busting tactics.
When Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas CEO Dr. Max Cuevas visited a rural health center in Oaxaca, he says, midwives who met him could tell simply by touching his hands that he delivers ...
Carmel River Issues Converge
New watershed coordinator brings more than a dozen groups together.
The river that inspired Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson needs help. “It is a watershed that is on life support and that needs some very large investment,” a half-dozen agencies wrote in a successful ...
Blue Gold
Feds look to the ocean for clean energy as scientists debate wave power potential.
Offshore oil drilling doesn’t stand much of a chance in the protected waters of Monterey Bay. But as the U.S. Department of Energy eyes the sea for renewable energy, local shores are strong contenders. Apart ...
Candidate School 2012 primes political hopefuls in time for the mid-term elections.
On Feb. 2, Leadership Monterey Peninsula kicked off Candidate School 2012 at Marina’s Shoreline Conference Center. Nearly 17 participants arrived, notebooks in hand, to hear county Elections Services Specialist Susan Orman and political analysts Dawn ...
Bank Breakers
County takes on more than $400 million in debt as Redevelopment Agency folds.
As Monterey County’s former director of redevelopment and housing, Jim Cook would have lost his job when California’s 425 redevelopment agencies dissolved Feb. 1. But he was spared unemployment when officials chose him to lead ...
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Public Citizen 2.09.12
ONGOING NEIGHBORHOOD GRANTS | COUNTYWIDE – The Community Foundation for Monterey County offers $1,000 to $4,000 grants for resident-led neighborhood improvements. Info sessions 6-7:30pm; Wed Feb. 15, Greenfield Public Library, 315 El Camino Real and ...
Methyl Rules
Litigation could alter future of California pesticide; county stakeholders seek consensus.
At points the controversy over methyl iodide has moved into the macabre as activists talk fetal rabbit deaths and stage mock fumigations on the state Capitol steps. Now it has taken a turn for the ...
Mr. Right for Marina?
Conservative Steve Emerson takes on Delgado for mayor.
The election for Marina mayor is nine months away. But the race is full term for Steve Emerson, a financial consultant and president of The Marina Foundation, who kicked off his campaign Jan. 28. By ...
Gene Pool
Citizens’ campaign to label GMOs in food comes to Pacific Grove’s EcoFarm Conference.
A display of processed foods – canned Prego sauce, Kashi cereal, Miss Vickie’s potato chips – is a matte contrast to the colorful vegetables and flowers at the Monterey Peninsula College farmers market. Yet it ...
Greener Pastures
The Ecological Farming Association’s annual EcoFarm conference in Pacific Grove is looking to the future, but stakes a claim to history as the oldest, biggest eco-ag gathering in the West. A wide range of events ...
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