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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.

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

May 31, 2024

Sheriff’s Office reopens ‘lost’ King City death case Voices investigated the possible homicide of Aracely Zavala

May 30, 2024

Una muerte sospechosa en King City nunca fue realmente investigada Un ex detective dice que fue un encubrimiento

April 17, 2024

Defamation case from 2018 sheriff’s race could be over soon Plaintiff says accusations ruined his life

March 24, 2024

Suspicious King City traffic death was never truly investigated Former Monterey County sheriff’s detective says it was a cover-up

December 22, 2023

Another December? Another rotten poem

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