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    ‘Where the social justice movement was headed’

    Posted in Education by Mara Reynolds
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    Reversing the narrative: Lowrider car clubs come to Cal State Monterey Bay

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Mara Reynolds
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    Yet another Christmas poem

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Mara Reynolds
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    To protect underage farmworkers, California expands oversight of field conditions

    Posted in Agriculture by Mara Reynolds
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    La veneración a Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe continúa, a pesar del temor de los migrantes

    Posted in Español by Mara Reynolds
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    Salinas City Council moves forward with new rental assistance program

    Posted in Features by Mara Reynolds
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    Veneration of Our Lady of Guadalupe to continue despite immigrants’ fears

    Posted in Features by Mara Reynolds
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    Washington’s financial disruption means fewer teachers for Monterey County’s migrant students

    Posted in Education by Mara Reynolds
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    Escasa vigilancia y pocas inspecciones dejan a agricultores menores de edad expuestos a pesticidas tóxicos

    Posted in Agriculture by Mara Reynolds
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    Lax oversight, few inspections leave child farmworkers exposed to toxic pesticides

    Posted in Agriculture by Mara Reynolds
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    California’s child farmworkers: exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields

    Posted in Agriculture by Mara Reynolds
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    Los niños jornaleros de California: agotados, mal pagados y trabajando en campos de cultivo tóxicos

    Posted in Agriculture by Mara Reynolds
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    Q+A: How Hawaiian princes brought surfing to Santa Cruz

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Mara Reynolds
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    Monterey County awards new $139 million jail health care contract

    Posted in Criminal Justice by Mara Reynolds
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    Los temores a ICE están perjudicando la salud pública

    Posted in Español by Mara Reynolds
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    ‘Te acaban de llevar’

    Posted in Español by Mara Reynolds
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    With little apparent evidence, DA investigators question petition process

    Posted in Features by Mara Reynolds
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    Programa de cocinas domésticas del condado de Monterey abre nuevas oportunidades

    Posted in Economy/Business by Mara Reynolds
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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 Mara Reynolds
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    Roughly 80,000 people in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties depend on SNAP benefits

    Posted in Features by Mara Reynolds
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About Mara Reynolds

Mara Reynolds is a fourth-generation Santa Cruzan and a third-generation journalist currently living in Portland, Oregon, where she also works as an editor, artist, educator and herbalist.

May 7, 2025

Travels with Corbett | Episode 2 of ELDERS From an historic disability uprising to a life on the road, Corbett O'Toole makes change

September 10, 2020

The Fires This Time The COVID-19 Chronicles

June 14, 2020

“The Fire is Essential” COVID taught us we’re capable of rapid transformation; George Floyd’s murder called our bluff

June 14, 2020

Local Action Ways to learn about and participate in the global uprising

January 23, 2020

‘Still locally operated’ 'Guided capitalism' swallows up West Coast 'conscious capitalist' grocers

January 23, 2020

Central Coast, meet chaebol

December 12, 2019

New Leaf to be owned by South Korean ‘hypermarket’ Emart Private equity firms take control

March 6, 2018

A New Season for New Leaf As years of consumer and worker discord come to a boil for Portland-based New Seasons, will its homegrown California sister company feel the heat?

March 6, 2018

New Leaf’s Wild Roots in the Santa Cruz Mountains New name, new plans, still organic

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