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    Las detenciones de inmigrantes en Fort Hunter Liggett plantean preguntas sobre la participación militar

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    Despite Army denials, evidence mounts of secretive South Monterey County ICE operations

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
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    ‘I just trusted his uniform‘

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
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    Immigration detentions on Fort Hunter Liggett raise questions about military involvement

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
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    People who spent time in Monterey County jail are in for a little cash

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
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    Local Catholic nonprofit gets state funding for immigrant legal aid

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
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    Monterey County supervisors return to proposed mental health facility

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
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    ‘Where the social justice movement was headed’

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

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Royal Calkins
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    Yet another Christmas poem

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

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

    Posted in Español by Royal Calkins
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    Salinas City Council moves forward with new rental assistance program

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
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    Veneration of Our Lady of Guadalupe to continue despite immigrants’ fears

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Royal Calkins
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About Royal Calkins

Royal Calkins is a semi-retired journalist, a former editor of the Monterey Herald, who writes for Voices of Monterey Bay. He lives in Half Moon Bay.

February 10, 2020

Monterey County, where pot pairs well with politics Keeping the regulators on your side

February 10, 2020

A crowded field for Monterey schools

January 23, 2020

Are deputies being paid OT for private events? Monterey County brass won’t say

January 16, 2020

Skimming over Monterey County planning issues Officials don’t want to look too closely

January 9, 2020

Salinas pot pioneer’s coke conviction stands Done in by a wiretap

January 2, 2020

What could be news in 2020

December 19, 2019

New FPPC complaint filed over Laguna Seca deal Was public hearing just for show?

December 19, 2019

Royal’s silly holiday poem, yet again Happy December

December 12, 2019

The Partisan: FORA can only point at itself Water project flop

December 10, 2019

No development for Ferrini Ranch Big win for Ag Land Trust

November 20, 2019

The Partisan: Psst. Wanna head start? Hotel manager had inside track at Laguna Seca

November 18, 2019

Fast moves on the raceway John Narigi, under FPPC investigation, poised to run Laguna Seca

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