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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.”

.National News

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.
June 11, 2025

Collective Action

As part of a day of national protest against Donald Trump, Indivisible Santa Cruz County has organized a short rally at 10am this Saturday.
June 10, 2025

‘A Call to Action’

If cuts to food assistance programs are approved by the U.S. Senate, it would cripple a food distribution system that took decades to build.
May 27, 2025

Republican Budget Cuts Could Imperil Local Senior Programs

Proposed cuts by the Republican-led administration in Washington, D.C., could be bad news for a Seniors Council program in Santa Cruz County.
May 27, 2025

Supervisors Eye Revised Budget

If the Trump administration moves ahead with plans to make sweeping cuts to health and human services, it will hit hard in Santa Cruz County.
April 15, 2025

Lawsuit Targets Executive Order Cutting Library Funding

A coalition of 21 attorneys general sued the Trump administration over an executive order to cut federal funding for libraries and museums.
April 1, 2025

Cuts to USDA Grants Will Hurt Both Education and Agriculture

Federal funding comprises just a fraction of the budget at tiny Pacific Elementary School District in Davenport. The district has one school.
April 1, 2025

Jimmy Panetta Stresses Impacts of Budget Cuts on Local Health

Congressman Panetta says proposed cuts by the Trump administration would be devastating for families, immigrants, seniors and many others.
March 25, 2025

Second Harvest Grapples with Federal Funding Cuts

The Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz is facing major problems serving its clientele in the wake of cuts by the Trump Administration.
March 8, 2025

Wasteful Haste

Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn tactic can be disruptive in the private sector, but in government it can be disastrous, management experts said.
February 12, 2025

Housing Matters Hosts Screening at the Rio

In his second documentary, ‘Beyond the Bridge: A Solution to Homelessness,’ Don Sawyer attempts to give a nationwide answer to the crisis.
February 5, 2025

Laborless Day

Thousands of people filled the streets in downtown Watsonville, carrying signs and chanting, all in observance of a Day Without Immigrants.
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