New report uncovers employer abuses in Santa Cruz County’s low-wage economy
“I haven’t heard a Santa Cruz band that has the sound we’re putting out,” says Isaac Romero, front man for the postpunk, dance rock band Arrows. “But it doesn’t matter. We’ve played a few shows with all metal bands and had a great reception.”
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Understanding Scorpio and the Nine Tests
During Scorpio each year—and particularly with those born with Scorpio Sun, Ascendant, Moon, Mars, Venus, the nodes, etc.—humanity is given great tests and challenges. We sense a constant state of warring and of battle occurring. This battle is purposeful. Scorpio calls each of us to a state of spiritual discipleship. One must be strong, able, courageous, unwavering, and ready. Disciples carry the light of regeneration and reorientation for and to humanity. The light is like a “burning ground.” Disciples are the leaders of humanity. They are called the “New Group of World Servers, women and men of goodwill.”
Scorpio works with Ray 4, harmony through conflict, which is how humanity learns—through suffering. Scorpio streams through Mars, Pluto and Mercury. Mars brings the Nine Personality Tests, urging us to bring harmony out of chaos (Ray 4); raise lesser values (desire) to higher (aspiration); lift darkness/ignorance up to the soul’s light. In Scorpio we battle with crystallized (old) thinking and behaviors.
We identify with the symbols of Scorpio: the scorpion (sting), serpent (betrayal), spider (web), eagle (air), and phoenix (firelight). Earth to air and into the light. Humanity’s present battle is to reorient materialism from greed to a world of sharing. In Scorpio, the spiritual power of humanity can triumph. Let us work together to see that we do.
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New report uncovers employer abuses in Santa Cruz County’s low-wage economy Carlos Rodriguez, a construction laborer in Santa Cruz County, needed money and took a quick job pouring and finishing concrete—but his compensation never came. “The boss just left at the end of the day—we agreed we would get paid at the end of the day,...
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Plus Letters To the Editor I have some extremely vivid memories of the 1997 El Niño in Santa Cruz. I saw people’s backyards—trees, lawn furniture, swing sets, everything—floating through Steamer Lane because they’d been washed into the San Lorenzo River. I saw a wave rise up onto the roadway and crash over a Metro bus. I...
Understanding Scorpio and the Nine Tests
During Scorpio each year—and particularly with those born with Scorpio Sun, Ascendant, Moon, Mars, Venus, the nodes, etc.—humanity is given great tests and challenges. We sense a constant state of warring and of battle occurring. This battle is purposeful. Scorpio calls each of us to a state of spiritual discipleship. One must be strong, able, courageous, unwavering, and...
TARGETING REFORM, SCHOOL BUCKS
Targeting Reform It often takes a Santa Cruz city councilmember two years to find their footing, but Richelle Noroyan, who was sworn in in December of 2014, is already proposing her first ordinance change, a piece of gun reform. Shortly after she was elected, she says, someone approached Noroyan with the suggestion. “I liked the idea,...
Film, Times & Events: Week of November 6
Films this WeekCheck out the movies playing locallyReviews Movie Times Santa Cruz area movie theaters > New This Week MISS YOU ALREADY Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette play Jess and Milly, two lifelong friends who’ve been at each other’s side through thick and thin. The thick gets thicker when Milly is...
Former residents: what are your thoughts on Santa Cruz today?
There are too many people that don’t care about the old-school flavor that we had before the earthquake. Phoebe Schmalfuss Marquez, Lost Coast, Self-Employed The rent, traffic and homeless problems are terrible. David Marquez, Lost Coast, Special Projects Director, It’s always going to be a classic surf town,...
Be Our Guest: The Misfits
Win tickets to The Misfits at The Catalyst on SantaCruz.com In 1977, a little-known punk band named the Misfits recorded their debut album, Static Age. Unable to find a record label to release it, the band didn’t give the album a proper release until 1997—after they had long-since established themselves as legends of the horror punk...
Arrows
“I haven’t heard a Santa Cruz band that has the sound we’re putting out,” says Isaac Romero, front man for the postpunk, dance rock band Arrows. “But it doesn’t matter. We’ve played a few shows with all metal bands and had a great reception.” Normally this might sound like the regular boasting of musicians, but with...
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Advertising invades politics in uneven ‘Our Brand Is Crisis’ In politics, as in so many other aspects of modern culture, it’s all about salesmanship. Questions of governance, leadership and morality are all trampled underfoot in the rush to sell a bill of goods to the voting public. Everything hinges on perceived (not actual) value, or villainy,...
Computer Made
Made of Oak’s emotive sound pushes the evolution of electronic music Electronic music was originally defined by its adherence to computers and synths, but now the genre is so much more complex and nuanced that when it comes to understanding the music, the hardware is useless. What’s more important now is the response it evokes. Made...