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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

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    ‘Te acaban de llevar’

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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

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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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    Roughly 80,000 people in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties depend on SNAP benefits

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    When this California Spanish-language TV station closed, a news desert opened for Latino viewers

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    Immigration fears are harming public health

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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

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    Do art. Be kind.

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    A young Salinas resident recounts her journey through the mental health system

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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

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    Salinas officials are poised to cross the church-state divide

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    The Souls of Potter’s Field

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    Here’s what the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ means for the Central Coast

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About Tom Lane

Tom Lane lives in Marina. While retiring in the middle of a pandemic, he and his wife have postponed travel plans. He is "detoxing" from his years with the Postal Service and finds that his body clock still wakes him up in time to get to work.

August 21, 2020

Post Office Blues The COVID-19 Chronicles: Changes at USPS led to one local’s early retirement

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