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California’s child farmworkers: exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
Posted in Agriculture by Itzel Castro
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Los niños jornaleros de California: agotados, mal pagados y trabajando en campos de cultivo tóxicos
Posted in Agriculture by Itzel Castro
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Q+A: How Hawaiian princes brought surfing to Santa Cruz
Posted in Arts/Culture by Itzel Castro
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Monterey County awards new $139 million jail health care contract
Posted in Criminal Justice by Itzel Castro
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Los temores a ICE están perjudicando la salud pública
Posted in Español by Itzel Castro
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‘Te acaban de llevar’
Posted in Español by Itzel Castro
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With little apparent evidence, DA investigators question petition process
Posted in Features by Itzel Castro
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Programa de cocinas domésticas del condado de Monterey abre nuevas oportunidades
Posted in Economy/Business by Itzel Castro
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Se estima que 80,000 personas en los condados de Monterey y Santa Cruz dependen de los beneficios del SNAP
Posted in Features by Itzel Castro
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Roughly 80,000 people in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties depend on SNAP benefits
Posted in Features by Itzel Castro
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When this California Spanish-language TV station closed, a news desert opened for Latino viewers
Posted in Features by Itzel Castro
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Immigration fears are harming public health
Posted in Features by Itzel Castro
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‘They just took you away’
Posted in Features by Itzel Castro
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Five questions about the crisis in local news
Posted in Features by Itzel Castro
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Monterey County’s home kitchen program opens new opportunities
Posted in Economy/Business by Itzel Castro
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Do art. Be kind.
Posted in Arts/Culture by Itzel Castro
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A young Salinas resident recounts her journey through the mental health system
Posted in Education by Itzel Castro
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California lawmakers may limit childhood sex abuse survivors’ ability to sue
Posted in Features by Sara Tiano
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King City boy wants to become the future of music in Monterey County
Posted in Arts/Culture by Itzel Castro
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Salinas officials are poised to cross the church-state divide
Posted in Features by Itzel Castro

About Itzel Castro

Itzel Castro is a writer from the Salinas Valley. Her work focuses on the farmworker community in the 'Salad Bowl of the World'. She is finally home.

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Mexican Doctors Arrive in the Salinas Valley Lending a helping hand with COVID-19 vaccinations

April 30, 2021

Climbing the cannabis ladder Latina moves up in a white man’s world

March 5, 2021

A Shot in the Arm Essential workers in the ‘Salad Bowl of the World’ are now being vaccinated