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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

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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’

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    Five questions about the crisis in local news

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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

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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.

July 8, 2021

Bernal Supporter Hired to Probe Case Connected to Bernal Incident involves Monterey County Sheriff’s brother

Yellow tape reading "Sheriff line-do not cross" separates the foreground from an area where multiple emergency response vehicles are parked with lights on in front of a residential area
June 29, 2021

Domestic Violence Protocols Not Always Followed In case tied to county sheriff, Carmel police looked the other way

May 25, 2021

Monterey County sheriff rebuked for ignoring spending laws Supervisors censure Stephen Bernal

May 22, 2021

DA’s Office finds Monterey County Sheriff’s Office broke the law but really didn’t mean to Investigation sparked by earlier Voices report

April 1, 2021

Secret Monterey County inquiry clears sheriff of one thing or another

February 26, 2021

Critics say Sheriff’s campaign promises broken

February 26, 2021

Bernal is target of recall Sheriff’s scandals and qualifications cited by recall organizers

January 10, 2021

Quieting the Rooster Chorus Monterey County to start enforcing cock-raising rules

December 24, 2020

A Sick Holiday Poem for the Pandemic The tradition continues

December 12, 2020

State agency to investigate Monterey County Counsel’s Office and Sheriff’s Department

November 13, 2020

Monterey County sheriff accused of serial affairs with subordinates Allegations appear in complaint to state FPPC

October 27, 2020

Monterey mayoral candidate swings and misses Timothy Barrett and that $800 check

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