Recent Stories
Gilbert’s Kids
The story of Popular Salinas High counselor Gilbert Olivares was already a stunning one. Now, new investigative discoveries deepen the drama – and the disbelief.
This wasn’t normal. The boy usually guarded his iPod touch closely, never leaving it laying around, never letting his mother or sister look at it. But it was there, sitting out. Her brother had been ...
Bad advice drives Byrl Smith’s campaign to cynical places.
On Monday morning, Rick Taylor, the Los Angeles-based operative managing Byrl Smith’s campaign in the 4th District County Supervisor’s race, called to say he understood Smith – whom the Weekly categorically did not endorse – ...
After last week, it shouldn’t be a Capital One card.
This is what a bloodbath looks like. One day after Capital One officially took ownership of the credit card business of Asia-based HSBC, one of the largest non-government employers in Monterey County, Capital One announced ...
The Buddy System
Developer claims Salinas mayor tried to swing massive redevelopment project to friends in high places
First the real estate deal fell apart, and then so did the legal mediation that followed in its wake. As Salinas Mayor Dennis Donohue enters his final months in office, he faces a legal battle ...
Nonprofit printer on Soledad Street takes to social media.
Michael Scharen has an advanced degree in physics from Kent State University, credit for helping Nobel Prize-winning physicist J. Robert Schrieffer write a few papers and a work history that includes dot-com-era stints as an ...
The Fort Ord Reuse Authority sues its contractor, releases invoices to the public.
February 2012, page 6 of 8: $537,722.92. That’s the cost of non-specific “professional services” in the $1.1 million monthly bill sent to the Fort Ord Reuse Authority by Arcadis U.S., the lead contractor in the ...
Monterey County Weekly's Summer Camps 2012
Summer Activities Guide
The camp badgering, for some of you, starts early. “Which camp can I go to” and “How many weeks can I go” are the general questions, often followed by protestations of “I know that one’s ...
Former water commish’s attorneys go document hunting.
Raise your hand if you have been employed by the county, or serve on a public board somewhere in the county. Now wiggle your fingers up if the word “desal” entered your lexicon in the ...
GOP wants to know your thoughts, and tell you what to think.
So the GOP’s National Senatorial Committee would like to know your thoughts. But first, the committee clearly wants to give you those thoughts. And after they’re done giving you your thoughts, you can then turn ...
Home & Garden 2012: Post Industrial, Present Tense
A group of design professionals collaborates on preserving Monterey Bay’s modernist past.
Docomomo-mo. Say that one three times fast. Do-co-mo-mo-mo. Here’s what the acronym stands for: the Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement – Monterey. And here’s what the acronym really means: Monterey County may be ...
