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August 12, 2025
Wine, Woman & Song
Lacy J. Dalton’s Santa Cruz bona fides go deep; she wrote one of her biggest hits when she lived in Ben Lomond during one of the happiest times of her life. She performs Saturday at El Vaquero Winery.
July 23, 2025
Exit Strategy
I am ready and grateful to accept the $1,000 stipend and a plane ticket to London, England. My family has been a conclave of illegal aliens with criminal ties for 356 years
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July 22, 2025
Why We Protest
I was born in the deep south, Bakersfield. On April 19 I drive to the reddest of red California, to cover a Kern County "Hands Off!" rally in my hometown. Most of them have never protested before.
June 11, 2025
Collective Action
As part of a day of national protest against Donald Trump, Indivisible Santa Cruz County has organized a short rally at 10am this Saturday.
May 6, 2025
Sleeping Your Way to the Top
Every night we go on Mother Nature’s life support system. Healing miracles happen when we sleep, and madness, memory-loss and malady when we don’t.
March 25, 2025
Spirit of Santa Cruz
The Crepe Place has been an epicenter for the independent music scene since returning owner Adam Bergeron started the music in 2007. The place feels as comfortable to me as a friend’s back porch.
February 7, 2025
What’s Shakin’ on the Loma Prieta Trail in Nisene Marks
When geologist Dwight Harbaugh said he’d join in on a hiking tour up the Loma Prieta Trail, word spread as if by underground rumbling.
February 5, 2025
Hidden Treasure
As a comic who’s just read Kira Jane Buxton’s new book, Tartufo, I have to say the woman is funny as ... I know, such language, it’s terrible.