Santa Cruz Pride and VegFest bring color, community and compassion to the weekend, while local news looks at hospital access, battery safety and wildfire resilience.
This week’s Editor’s Note looks at Dusty Baker’s Santa Cruz connection, a sports story that reaches beyond baseball, plus Pride events, local bands, rail debate, the mayor’s race and Watsonville Hospital news.
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.
