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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.

December 21, 2022

Another holiday poem that you’ll regret reading Consider this Royal's Christmas Cheer

November 16, 2022

County officials won’t talk about another jail death Family says it will seek a second autopsy after coroner's inconclusive report about Saturday's death

November 9, 2022

Laying Down the Law New sheriff might be able to cure what ails the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office

November 3, 2022

Lawsuit against sheriff candidate Moses is expanding Many local officials, citizens and journalists to be questioned

October 25, 2022

Oversight may be coming for Sheriff’s Office Monterey County supervisors agree out-of-control department needs stronger guidance

October 19, 2022

Another Monterey County Jail death claim settled Family says Rafael Ramirez Lara's death was the result of inattention and indifference

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October 19, 2022

Jail Death Claims Since 2013 Some of the completed cases involving Monterey County Jail inmates since 2013

October 13, 2022

Walked Out Sheriff's detective escorted out of the office under overtime pay inquiry

October 13, 2022

A History of Scandal A Collection of Voices of Monterey Bay's Continuing Coverage of issues within the Monterey County Sheriff's Office

October 7, 2022

Another Scandal at the Jail Special operations commander placed on leave for allegedly receiving drugs illegally obtained from the jail pharmacy

October 1, 2022

Twenty grand, more or less Monterey County clarifies amount sent to deputy with a discrimination claim against sheriff

September 28, 2022

Cocked and Loaded Jurors to decide if Toro Park man threw down his gun before the CHP opened fire

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