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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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