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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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    Monterey County awards new $139 million jail health care contract

    Posted in Criminal Justice by Royal Calkins
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    Los temores a ICE están perjudicando la salud pública

    Posted in Español by Royal Calkins
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    ‘Te acaban de llevar’

    Posted in Español by Royal Calkins
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    With little apparent evidence, DA investigators question petition process

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
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    Programa de cocinas domésticas del condado de Monterey abre nuevas oportunidades

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

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
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    When this California Spanish-language TV station closed, a news desert opened for Latino viewers

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
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    Immigration fears are harming public health

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
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    ‘They just took you away’

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
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    Five questions about the crisis in local news

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
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    Monterey County’s home kitchen program opens new opportunities

    Posted in Economy/Business by Royal Calkins
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    Do art. Be kind.

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Royal Calkins
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    A young Salinas resident recounts her journey through the mental health system

    Posted in Education by Royal Calkins
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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 Royal Calkins
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    Salinas officials are poised to cross the church-state divide

    Posted in Features 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.

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

November 15, 2019

A Scoreless Tie Jury determines no winners in Agha v. Bitar lawsuits

November 14, 2019

The Partisan: Planning group loses strong voice Keith Vandevere says so long

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