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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

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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

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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.

August 29, 2019

Salinas fire chief already on the hot seat Absences and leadership concerns are rankling the rank and file

July 25, 2019

Salinas rape case spills over into politics Politicians scramble to return donations from John Fickas

July 15, 2019

Monterey County gives Cal Am the green light Supervisors vote their regional interests

July 11, 2019

Back in the Cock Pit Despite ordinance, illegal rooster raising thrives in rural Monterey County

June 27, 2019

A Tentative Tourist Stumbling through Mexico City

June 20, 2019

The Dallas Report Investigation into former Carmel mayor reveals a range of inappropriate behavior

June 12, 2019

More Fun and Games in Carmel Updated with city's release of Dallas letter objecting to release of report

May 30, 2019

“The Dreamt Land” Turning water into gold

May 16, 2019

Fiddlin’ along the faultline Bluegrass and more in Parkfield

May 2, 2019

The Partisan: A Step Up from Arpaio Republican Women's next speaker is at least an intellectual

April 25, 2019

The Partisan: By the Numbers Wendy Root Askew has the issues down

April 18, 2019

The Partisan: Carolyn Hardy’s fruitless fishing expedition in Carmel

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