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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.

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

December 23, 2021

Royal’s Christmas poem

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