Recent Stories
Girl In the Air
Carmel’s Brita Sigourney has been wearing skis since toddlerhood. Now she’s ready for her biggest event yet – the Winter 2013 X games.
Ask any skater grinding the curbs in your neighborhood parking lot, or any brand manager for an international sports apparel line, and they’ll tell you the same story: The X Games rule. Spawned by cable ...
Killing the Workforce Investment Act budget suicidal.
The newly elected majority of the House of Representatives passed their budget bill, HR1, two weeks ago. It has been temporarily shelved while the leadership works until March 18 to avoid the government shutdown that ...
We're Back, 100% In Print and Online
WE'RE STILL HERE, IN PRINT AND ONLINE Dear Reader,It is not every year that April 1 falls on a Thursday, so when it does we at the paper try not to waste the opportunity to ...
'Weekly' web redesign offers joyful bundling of content.
Having never given birth myself, I’m going completely on hearsay from Mrs. Cushman when I sometimes compare difficult tasks to bearing children. From where I was standing, it certainly looked like hard work, but all ...
Legislators are bailing on California’s fiscal crisis.
Rain was falling outside the Embassy Suites last Friday morning, but there was a warm glow inside the main conference area, where AMBAG, The Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (AMBAG), was hosting its 15th ...
Building an economic stimulus package from the ground up.
This is not a joke: One of the ideas being debated in Congress this week as a remedy for the current economic crisis is for the federal treasury to lend $25B to the auto industry. ...
20th Anniversary -- The Fine Print
A peek at the key details of publishing a profitable paper.
Many years ago, a mentor who publishes a great weekly newspaper in Colorado asked me what I was looking for in this business. I never got a chance to answer. My back story at the ...
20th Anniversary -- MC Weekly’s Community Index
What the numbers tell us about the past 20 years.
Active US Army personnel in Monterey County in 1988 and 2008: 14,900 | 3,500 Massage parlors in Monterey County in 1988 and 2008: 20 | 6 Pawnshops on Fremont Boulevard in Seaside in 1988 and ...
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Maybe it’s this new aftershave I’ve been wearing. Lately I’ve been attracting all these know-it-alls who feel compelled to tell me how to run a newspaper. Last week I’m sitting in a restaurant and the ...
We’re Expanding
The Weekly aims to increase its influence with free classifieds on monterey.backpage.com.
Philip Meyer, in his new book The Vanishing Newspaper, Saving Journalism in the Information Age, writes that the real value of newspapers is their connection to readers and influence in their communities—not their stock price. ...
