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    Monterey County supervisors return to proposed mental health facility

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    ‘Where the social justice movement was headed’

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    Reversing the narrative: Lowrider car clubs come to Cal State Monterey Bay

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    Yet another Christmas poem

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    To protect underage farmworkers, California expands oversight of field conditions

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    La veneración a Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe continúa, a pesar del temor de los migrantes

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    Salinas City Council moves forward with new rental assistance program

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    Veneration of Our Lady of Guadalupe to continue despite immigrants’ fears

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    Washington’s financial disruption means fewer teachers for Monterey County’s migrant students

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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

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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

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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

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    ‘Te acaban de llevar’

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    With little apparent evidence, DA investigators question petition process

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    Programa de cocinas domésticas del condado de Monterey abre nuevas oportunidades

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    Se estima que 80,000 personas en los condados de Monterey y Santa Cruz dependen de los beneficios del SNAP

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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.

September 19, 2019

Be Safe out there Locals launch campaign to make gun locks and safes as common as pistols

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

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