• Featured

    Fruit and vegetable aid program underutilized in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    An idea born in an airport became one of Salinas’ most enduring nights of art

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    Del Rey Oaks police knew in advance of ICE presence at Monterey Airport

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    Work at South County ICE facility temporarily paused

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    Monterey County officials send a strong message to ICE: Get lost

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    The cameras Salinas approved in 2021 pose a danger to our community

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    Planned Gilroy detention center will increase arrests, advocates say

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    Monterey County settles suit against slow-moving owner of Quadrangle Building

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    Central Coast representative Lofgren arrives unannounced to inspect ICE facility in Mojave Desert

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    Attorney General Bonta, Santa Clara County sue to block ‘illegal’ ICE facility near Gilroy

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    Monterey County health officials warn of harm to public health from H.R. 1

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    Akira Boch comes home to show documentary at El Teatro Campesino

    Posted in Arts/Culture by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    Carmel’s Rumsen Indians ‘youth takeovers’ feature cultural vitality and creativity

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    A village raises a leader

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    We shouldn’t normalize anonymous accusations and taunting

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    Proposed public housing rule could kick hundreds of Central Coast children into the streets

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    CSUMB not reaching 2030 Carbon Neutrality Goal

    Posted in Education by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    ‘People are watching now’

    Posted in Features by Royal Calkins
  • Featured

    Teen Moms Inc.: Helping young mothers navigate life

    Posted in Education by Royal Calkins
Menu

Navigation

  • Home
  • Voces en español
  • Donate
  • Sign up for our free newsletter
  • Opinion
  • Gray Area Podcast
  • About Us
    • Advisory Board
    • Our Awards
    • VOMB Announcements
    • Send a letter to the editor
  • The Youth Beat
  • Young Voices Media Project
  • VOMB’s Secret Newsletter Archive
  • Monterey Rocks
  • The VOMB Shop

Connect

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

SEARCH

Archives

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.

Monterey County Sheriff Badge
November 4, 2021

Q&A with Tina Nieto Candidate for Monterey County sheriff

October 29, 2021

Monterey County sheriff’s campaign needs your attention before it’s too late

Monterey County Sheriff Badge
October 29, 2021

Q&A with Jose Mendoza Candidate for Monterey County sheriff

October 18, 2021

Monterey County Sheriff Steve Bernal to leave office Departure follows rare censure by county supervisors for misusing public money

September 24, 2021

What I miss about the coast And what I don’t

July 24, 2021

In Police Shootings, Does the Neighborhood Determine the Outcome?

July 9, 2021

County Supes File State Complaint Against Monterey County Sheriff

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

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →
Copyright © 2017-2024 Voices of Monterey Bay | ABOUT US | SIGN UP | DONATE