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September 17, 2025
Dives Still Divin’
In Santa Cruz, dive bars are the quiet heartbeats of local communities that preserve something authentic and rare.
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.
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.
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.