Recent Stories
Tight Operations
Monterey Peninsula and Salinas Valley hospitals suffer from atrophied revenue.
Lean economic times tend to hit the public where it hurts most, including health care facilities. Couple the recession with insurance companies squeezing their providers and employers looking to stabilize rocketing health care costs, and ...
Playing Both sides
Salinas Assemblywoman Anna Caballero woos the center in her bid for state Senate.
Anna Caballero looks for a familiar face in a San Jose banquet room full of union heavyweights and politicians. Though she’s tired from ping-ponging across two sprawling districts, the Salinas Valley assemblywoman doesn’t show it ...
Shifting Salinas
Salinas takes new approaches to perpetual budget and gang violence problems.
It sounds so familiar: Salinas is cutting wherever the heck it can to make it through another malignant budget cycle, the feds are eying the city’s gang problem, Chinatown redevelopment inches ahead, and Mayor Dennis ...
Farm Country Face-Off
Ed Mitchell’s crusade to unseat Lou Calcagno pits him against an incumbent who knows how to milk the system – and co-opt his opponents.
Moon Glow Dairy lies at the end of a gravel road bisected by sweeping power lines from the Moss Landing Power Plant and rimmed with calla lilies. It’s home to 1,000 milk-producing cows, several mice-hunting ...
Prunedale band Louie and The Lovers hit NPR airwaves.
Louie and The Lovers' music has been called a "Salinas Valley Boy version of Creedence Clearwater Revival infused with a pinch of tex-mex Big Star." The largely undiscovered Prunedale band, which started recording as a ...
Campaign Cha-Ching
Kanalakis and Garcia battle in campaign fund raising, Miller trails.
Sheriff Mike Kanalakis raised more than $63,000 in the past two months, surpassing retired cmdr. Fred Garcia who brought in nearly $57,000 and walloping former Pacific Grove police chief Scott Miller who only received $9,400 ...
Cost Controls
Treasurer candidate Ron Holly may pay the price for false claims that he’s a lawyer.
For the past two decades the Monterey County treasurer-tax collector race has amounted to voters drawing a line in front of Lou Solton’s name. But with Solton retiring, three candidates, Assistant Treasurer Mary Zeeb, Chief ...
Marina may toss out Armstrong Ranch development plans.
The City of Marina may throw away all entitlements, approvals and amendments associated with development Marina Station to avoid paying legal fees in a looming lawsuit. The City Council on June 2 is slated to ...
Alleged Charity Scheme
Attorney General Brown wants to shut down Monterey County AIDS project.
Attorney General Jerry Brown announced today that he has filed a lawsuit to shut down the Monterey County AIDS Project, alleging that the nonprofit illegally diverted more than $2.8 million intended for people with HIV/AIDS ...
Shots fired at Salinas Target.
A juvenile chased after a car in the Target parking lot in Salinas this afternoon and fired four to six rounds as the sedan pulled away, Salinas police said. The shooting took place about 1:30pm. ...
