.Richard Stockton

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Jury Room denizens
September 17, 2025

Dives Still Divin’

In Santa Cruz, dive bars are the quiet heartbeats of local communities that preserve something authentic and rare.
Opinion accompanying photo of Exterior view of an In-N-Out Burger drive-thru.
September 3, 2025

Beef Stewed

Our divisiveness grows every day... We come together like a hospital gown. For my age range, that shows way too much ass.
hiking cover story photo main
September 3, 2025

Ancient Land, New Trails

The Cotoni lived here. The Cotoni people were here for over ten thousand years—they really had it made. Then it ended with the arrival of the Spanish. And here we are.
A&E 8-14-25 Lacy J Dalton photo
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.
Man at a rally wearing a shirt that says “Fighting Nazis Since 1996”
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.
Cover photo sleep story
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.
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