A bicyclist rides a dirt path at Cotoni Coast
September 3, 2025

The Editor’s Desk

At a time when the powers that be think it’s a good thing to sell public spaces to oil companies, we’d better cherish what we have in the way of beautiful nature preserves.

.Letters to the Editor

September 3, 2025

Letters

I commend you on many of your selections for the “Top 50 Trailblazers.” Of course, a list like this is going to bring out the question, who was left off?
August 27, 2025

The Editor’s Desk

Every time I drive through downtown Watsonville, I think this place should be bustling with great businesses and foot traffic.
August 27, 2025

Letters

A bill that was recently fast-tracked in Sacramento will dramatically increase air and water pollution in the Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito County region
August 20, 2025

The Editor’s Desk

While so many of us are looking at what to do next, there are more and more groups learning what not to do next, or to “be here now,” in the words of Ram Dass.
August 20, 2025

LETTERS

I'm responding to the article about the stresses that our Seabright businesses are enduring because of the Murray St. bridge construction. Come on, City of Santa Cruz government...
August 12, 2025

The Editor’s Desk

As Downtown Santa Cruz continues its skyward housing boom, there’s a big question planners must ponder: what are all those thousands of new residents going to do at night?
August 12, 2025

LETTERS

I started out after the CZU fire with deep sympathy for the people in planning and building... But the process of rebuilding is incremental, slow torture.
August 6, 2025

The Editor’s Desk

Imagine not only losing your home and all of your property, but also five years or more of your life. That’s what’s happened to the more than 60,000 residents...
August 6, 2025

LETTERS

Community Bridges’ Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program will host its 18th Annual Breastfeeding Walk & Health Fair on Thursday, August 7
July 30, 2025

The Editor’s Desk

Christina Waters’ cover story gives you all you need to enter a new world, one that we are so privileged to have in our hometown.
July 30, 2025

LETTERS

RE: “Into the Woods” Great review—spot on! Wonderful descriptions! So glad I got to see this show last night!!
July 23, 2025

LETTERS

I have seen the decline of the bee population in my area and its effects on my community firsthand. Governor Newsom has branded himself as a strong environmental advocate...
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