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    Do art. Be kind.

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    A young Salinas resident recounts her journey through the mental health system

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    California lawmakers may limit childhood sex abuse survivors’ ability to sue

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    King City boy wants to become the future of music in Monterey County

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    Salinas officials are poised to cross the church-state divide

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    The Souls of Potter’s Field

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    Here’s what the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ means for the Central Coast

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    BREAKING: Monterey County jail gets big money for helping ICE find targets

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    Pedacitos: Stories in the path of healing

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    In defense of immigrants

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    Celebrating the end to an injustice

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    Students talk about security in social media and how it might be improved

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    ‘Patients will suffer. Patients will die.’ Why California’s rural hospitals are flatlining.

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    A fight for justice

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    Sacred Rage & Rhymes

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    State watchdog to investigate why Monterey County ignored transparency rules and paid for slander defense

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    Building bridges, not walls

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    Travels with Corbett | Episode 2 of ELDERS

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    New Salinas City Council takes aim at recently approved Rental Stabilization Ordinance

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    Honoring Humanity

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About Joe Livernois

Joe Livernois has been a reporter, editor and columnist in Monterey County for 35 years.

August 8, 2025

The Souls of Potter’s Field A Salinas plot filled with forlorn death

September 9, 2023

Mystery solved: In which a legendary newsman finally discovers how a photographic treasure ended up in a Prunedale garage sale.

August 12, 2023

Big Expectations Ritchie Lovejoy's book is finally published after eight decades and a lifetime of grief and disappointment

May 2, 2023

Panning ‘Cannery’ Steinbeck's novel didn't wow the critics on first arrival

December 15, 2022

More History in an Historic Town Gino Garcia, Monterey's first Latino city councilman, settles in

November 22, 2022

An Epicurean Elegy The clock ran backward and the quesadillas were the gods' ambrosia

November 17, 2022

Theodore Needs Help Marina author's 'Bipolar Bear' tackles sensitive topics as a graphic novel for adults

October 7, 2022

Fit to Print How a noted war correspondent ended the war in Europe a day early and ended up in the cozy confines of Monterey

October 6, 2022

The Writing on the Wall Lyde Hussey revisited her childhood home in Chicago and rediscovered her past in a unique way

August 24, 2022

Filling Seats for Nixon Spiro Agnew, Sammy Davis Jr. and dancing the night away with the Mike Curb Congregation

June 22, 2022

Food Fights, Chapter 2 The Lettuce Strike of 1936 remains a dark stain on the history of Salinas

June 9, 2022

The Root of Monterey County Politics Grassroots campaigning prevails in off-year primary election

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