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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
The Monterey County Supervisors narrowly dodged being forever known as “Playa Haters” when they agreed to let the (former) gang banging, booty-slapping, ganja puffin’ Snoop Dogg do his damn thing at the Monterey Music Summit over the Memorial Day weekend. The Supes had been worried about violence. Of course, they ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
The declines in West Coast salmon populations have made international headlines over the past month, but one proposed solution to the problem is, to put it bluntly, ridiculous. The National Marine Fisheries Service, a federal agency under the US Department of Commerce, is arguing that sea lions living near Oregon’s ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
The twin engines driving Santa Cruz culture—art and politics—have become intertwined yet again with the recently released protest song “Widening One Won’t Work.” Long-time protest singers and Campaign for Sensible Transportation members Peter and Celia Scott (and oh yes, she was mayor of Santa Cruz) produced the song, which readers ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Yet again the court date for the case against the tree-sit protestors has been delayed (this time to March 6), but, as they say, good things come with time, and it’s given us a chance to comb through the documents surrounding the case.
The files contain a litany of complaints against ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
A recent spat between local historians has unearthed some seedy nuggets of Live Oak lore. It all began with a fight over whether the Pleasure Point Roadhouse should be designated as historically significant or simply as an old fixer-upper that had lived out the last of its days. The County ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
If we'd dropped out of a space capsule, we would have known we'd landed in Santa Cruz. It was Saturday, Feb. 16, and the early showing of Michael Clayton at the Nick was full of the kinds of people who like to keep up on things--the kind of people, say, ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
With the breakneck pace of developments in the light brown apple moth (LBAM) story, it’s mighty easy for anti-spraying activists to lose sight of strategy. And strategy is what Santa Cruz City Councilwoman Lynn Robinson had in mind when she stated her objection to a resolution opposing the state’s aerial ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
If Ray Newkirk, president of Pacific Biofuel, had a hammer we'd all have to hope his aim was good. Luckily Newkirk's approach to spreading justice all over this land is more Apollo than Thor. Newkirk sent us his ode to the LBAM pheromone, "Spray CDFA." Take a listen here: “Spray ...
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