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    A pesar de que el ejército lo niega, aumentan las evidencias de operaciones secretas de ICE en el sur del Condado de Monterey

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    Monterey County’s social services building is a money pit

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

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    ‘I just trusted his uniform’

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    People who spent time in Monterey County jail are in for a little cash

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    Local Catholic nonprofit gets state funding for immigrant legal aid

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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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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 13, 2025

The U.S. needs more DEI, not less Time to teach Trump a lesson

February 3, 2025

Monterey County officials owe Christian Schneider a hearing Defamed by sheriff’s backers, he faced impossible political hurdles

February 3, 2025

Schneider’s FPPC Complaint

January 29, 2025

Sheriff said she reopened King City investigation, but it didn’t happen CHP turned fatality case over to sheriff a decade ago

December 21, 2024

Royal Xmas poem is coming to town You better not cry or pout, but do watch out for the silly rhymes

November 29, 2024

Remembering 1974, when women weren’t believed Is MAGA trying to normalize rape — again?

November 14, 2024

Wellpath admits failures at Monterey County Jail Health care company also files bankruptcy papers

October 30, 2024

Way before Alden Global Capital banned political endorsements, The Monterey Herald stopped the practice Here’s why

October 23, 2024

Trump got off way easy at the McDonald’s fry station A former fast-food worker compares notes

July 12, 2024

Monterey County settles suit over alleged suicide of neglected inmate County to pay $1 million, Wellpath’s share of the settlement can remain private

July 9, 2024

Highly paid Monterey County sheriff’s sergeant gets his job back Colleagues testify that overtime rules are ignored

June 20, 2024

La Oficina del Sheriff reabre el caso “perdido” de muerte en King City Voces investigó el posible homicidio de Aracely Zavala

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