Recent Stories
Whether Obama has earned another term is almost moot.
When the 44th president took office in January 2009, the Bush era had left the country in nothing less than a complete mess. The country was embedded in a futile war in Iraq (started upon ...
Valuing free and independent media, too.
Because the news is my business, I was stunned by Executive Editor Joe Livernois’ admission in Saturday’s Herald. It wasn’t the paper’s rationale to stop publishing the stock market listings that got my attention. What ...
Character Study
National Coalition Building Institute empowers students to instill tolerance.
It’s the time of year when people dream big. Peace on earth. Joy to the world. But if the ideal of sharing the planet peacefully is ever to bear fruit, we’d have to embrace the ...
Making Conservatives Jealous
Peninsula-raised NAACP president organizes a D.C. rally to rival Glenn Beck’s.
Ben Jealous – a 37-year-old Pacific Grove native, York High School grad and Rhodes Scholar – organized a boisterous rally Oct. 2 in the nation’s capitol to bring attention to the need for jobs and ...
It’s time to face the facts—and for Guillen to go.
What did Carmel city officials know about the Rich Guillen scandal, and when did they know it? The answers to those questions appear depressingly clear. The mayor and city councilmembers knew in May 2008 about ...
Carmel Valley Road’s free right turn lane should stay.
For anyone who lives in Carmel Valley, the last couple of months have been a driving godsend. I’m not referring to being able to gawk at $500,000 Aston Martins or racing past a slow Lamborghini ...
Bird Brain
An ill-advised hummingbird emergency affirms the role of SPCA Wildlife Rescue Center.
Baby Bird was having a bad day. Baby Bird was a striking Allen hummingbird, red and green with some brown feathers, a member of a species that can hover, fly forward, backwards, vertically up or ...
April Fools! 2010
Despite years of profitability as the county’s largest-circulation rag, the Weekly ends its print edition and goes exclusively online and mobile.
Disclaimer: This article was a part or April Fools 2010 cover story. For more information read the letter from the publisher April 1, 2010. Seaside, California. It is with a sense of great sadness, mixed ...
Happy New Year: Wise Words from an Elder
The Decade in Review: Daniel Schorr of NPR offers his unique viewpoint.
Few journalists can deliver like NPR's Daniel Schorr, who's been a working reporter for over 60 years, earning his stripes under CBS's famed Edward Murrow. Last week, on December 30, 2009, he offered this commentary ...
Our Best Foot Forward
In this special issue, the Weekly showcases 73 local nonprofit initiatives worth supporting – and pledges $100,000 from our Community Fund to match readers’ donations.
It tends to get buried under all the news about budget woes and partisan politics, but there is some good news we’d like to bring to your attention. A lot of it, in fact. Chances ...
