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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.
July 22, 2025

Talks Continue on Battery Energy Storage Systems

About 150 people gathered July 17 at the third in a series of meetings about proposed local Battery Energy Storage Systems.
July 16, 2025

Health Providers Sound Alarm About OBBBA Cuts

A group of state lawmakers and local medical providers gathered to sound the alarm on President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
July 16, 2025

Emile DeWeaver’s Abolition Vision

Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, cofounder of Prison Renaissance, will read from his book July 18 at the UCSC Institute of the Arts and Sciences.
July 9, 2025

Landmark Park

After sitting vacant for decades high above Soquel Creek, Capitola’s Rispin Mansion is being repurposed at last.
July 9, 2025

Roundabout Coming to Capitola

City planners have decided that a roundabout is the next best step to easing traffic at a busy all-way stop in Capitola.
July 8, 2025

Taking on the Trash

Starting July 11, Santa Cruz County will increase penalties for illegal dumping violations in unincorporated areas.
July 2, 2025

Streamlining County Permitting

County supervisors agreed with the findings of a Grand Jury report detailing the active process as “costly, time-consuming, and exasperating.”
July 2, 2025

Phoenix Rising

California State Parks has released a plan to rebuild campgrounds and ease access to Big Basin Redwoods State Park, our oldest state park.
June 25, 2025

Mike Rotkin, 1945-2025

The loss of Mike Rotkin has been felt throughout the community since he passed away from an arduous battle with leukemia. He was 79.
June 25, 2025

Palacios Steps Down

Sworn in as CAO in 2017—after 20 years as Watsonville’s city manager—Carlos Palacios became the county’s first Latino leader.
June 25, 2025

Storage Wars

A series of public technical workshops will examine the role and risks of battery energy storage systems in modernizing the energy grid.
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