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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

    Posted in Agriculture by Royal Calkins
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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

    Posted in Education by Royal Calkins
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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

    Posted in Agriculture by Royal Calkins
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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

    Posted in Criminal Justice by Royal Calkins
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    Los temores a ICE están perjudicando la salud pública

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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

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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

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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.

April 26, 2022

Monterey County’s chief administrator retiring Charles McKee leaving at the end of the year

April 22, 2022

Preguntas y respuestas con Tina Nieto Candidata a Alguacil del Condado de Monterey

April 14, 2022

Sheriff’s candidate loses appellate fight Moses and associates lose big round in appeals court, ordered to pay plaintiffs’ fees

April 10, 2022

Preguntas y respuestas con Joe Moses El Candidato a Alguacil del Condado de Monterey enfrenta preguntas sobre policías enviados a su casa

April 9, 2022

Preguntas y Respuestas con Jeff Hoyne Candidato a Alguacil del Condado de Monterey

April 8, 2022

Preguntas y respuestas con Justin Patterson Candidato a Alguacil del Condado de Monterey

March 22, 2022

Defamation case against sheriff candidate, others, reaches appeals court Joe Moses is entangled in a lawsuit that dates to the 2018 Monterey County sheriff’s race 

February 28, 2022

Plea bargain shortened alleged Salinas killer’s prison time Common legal procedure has escaped wider discussion partly because its effects are difficult to evaluate.

February 13, 2022

Spreading the political wealth In Monterey County, the big money is going into the race for sheriff and for a North County supervisor's position

February 2, 2022

A Weak Case Monterey County's ex-sheriff weighs in on oversight board proposal with wobbly arguments and off-based assumptions

Karen Ravn
January 15, 2022

Remembering Karen Ravn A life of pugs, math, greeting cards and genius

January 14, 2022

Nursing home under fire Special monitors sought to oversee Driftwood Health Care in Santa Cruz and 18 of sister operations in California on grounds of chronic understaffing, inadequate patient protections, inflated consumer ratings and false advertising

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