This week’s letters address Santa Cruz warming center policies, welcome new MAH director Ginger Shulick Porcella and respond to RTC plans for rail and trail along the Santa Cruz Branch Line.
This week’s Free Will Astrology moves through cunning with honor, sacred trouble, kelp-saving otters, hidden inheritances, false friends and divergent realities, offering each sign a strange, useful lantern for the week ahead.
This week’s horoscope encourages each sign to seek clearer purpose, strengthen self-understanding and move toward renewal through practical tools, patience and emotional insight.
Brad Kava frames this week’s AI cover story through the legend of John Henry, asking what happens when artists, businesses and communities face machines that can both help and harm.
A Santa Cruz reader raises concerns over proposed City Charter changes, arguing that voters should closely examine shifts involving council authority, salaries, meetings and public oversight.
Elizabeth Borelli begins a two-part look at therapy approaches in Santa Cruz, from ACT and Parts Therapy to somatic work, art therapy and walk-and-talk sessions.
Free Will Astrology for the week of May 14, 2026, invites each sign to explore new truths, from Aries’ encounter with intensity to Pisces’ rebellion against perfectionism.
Elizabeth Borelli looks at Mental Health Awareness Month through the lens of happiness, resilience and mindset, offering simple ways to interrupt rumination and steady the nervous system.
