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Hard Labor
Hartnell College sides with unions, could face fight in construction negotiations.
“Which side are you on?” the old labor song asks. It was a choice Hartnell College trustees had to make in early May, when the board decided to require a project labor agreement, or PLA, ...
Fish Out of Water
Cal Am admits it’ll miss the state’s deadline on Carmel River cutbacks.
We’re not gonna make it. That’s the message of a January letter from the president of California American Water Co. to the chair of the State Water Resources Control Board. Even in the rosiest of ...
Oldest Profession
Authorities say a lack of resources allows prostitution to flourish in Salinas.
Outside one Oldtown Salinas boutique, it isn’t uncommon to hear screams: “You need to pay me! You need to pay me!” Prostitutes in the city – even within the relatively well-populated bounds of the business ...
All Fizzed Up
Bill Monning breathes new life into soda tax effort; industry fights back.
The debate over taxing sugar-added beverages is even more divisive than the age-old Coke-versus-Pepsi question. Some studies demonize soda for the rise in obesity; others defend it, blaming snack food and other treats. State Sen. ...
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Public Citizen 05.16.13
LEARNING FROM LATIN AMERICA | MONTEREY – Monterey Institute of International Studies Professor Jan Black compares issues of human rights, globalization and the media between the U.S. and our neighbors to the south. 11:30am-1:30pm. Hilton ...
Language Arts
DLI Foundation launches plan to foster multi-lingual learning, keeping DLI at arm’s length.
In 1995, California Gov. Pete Wilson made Monterey Bay’s claim as the “language capital of the world” official. Monterey Language Capital Advocates, a coalition of organizations, was formed in the early 1990s to support Monterey ...
Hot Spot
Sex offenders cluster at Salinas motel; Supreme Court considers housing restrictions.
A concentration of sex offenders in an East Salinas motel has raised some eyebrows, and plays into a statewide debate about whether it’s constitutional to restrict where some sex offenders live. Seventeen registered sex offender ...
Real Property
Salinas plans to buy tax-burdened Chinatown building for homeless services.
During a 2008 property auction, Monterey County offered a dirt-cheap price for a Salinas building. But there were no takers. A property in Chinatown, a haven for the homeless and drug dealers, can be a ...
Study of P.G.’s CalPERS initiative returns to the council this week.
Pacific Grove officials are hoping for a legal escape hatch from a citizens’ ballot initiative they fear could cost the city millions. The initiative seeks to void a 2002 City Council decision approving “3-percent-at-50” pension ...
Huffing and Puffing
Steam injection oil wells raise enviro eyebrows; group appeals project near Pinnacles.
Forget about fracking for a minute. That’s the controversial practice oil and gas operators use to create small fissures in rock formations, freeing up the reserves they contain and, for some, introducing legitimate concerns about ...
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Public Citizen 05.09.13
ONGOING GUIDING GROWTH | VARIOUS LOCATIONS – The Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments invites members of the public to weigh in on transportation priorities in the tri-county region and share their visions for 2035. ...
Tunnel Vision
Proposed pipeline between two South County reservoirs could supply the Peninsula.
Lake Nacimiento, nicknamed “the dragon” because of its shape, isn’t deep enough to hold all the water that flows into it. Water officials are now beginning to see that as an opportunity. Nacimiento fills up ...
Boiling Point
With homelessness in Monterey at an all-time high, businesses ask the city for action.
JC Romero never stays in a place for more than two or three days. The 38-year-old started traveling (his word of choice to describe his voluntary homelessness) 25 years ago in Detroit. He made a ...
Charged Up
Local jurisdictions take steps in forming new authority to buy and sell green power.
Patrick Mathews, general manager of Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority, envisions landfills going the way of soda cans. What was once treated as a useless trash heap could be a resource. SVSWA partnered with Mass.-based ...
Roundabout Revolution
Monterey County, Marina look to traffic-calming devices to tame wild intersections
It’s something of an American pastime to distrust European traditions. We look skeptically upon Old-World contrivances like the metric system and bidets; for most hearty Americans, inches and toilet paper will suffice. But least one ...
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