June 15, 2023 Cruising Away Monterey’s policy to stop servicing cruise ships met with differing responses
September 25, 2022 First they came for the newspapers. Then for mobile home parks. The owners of the Monterey Herald and the Santa Cruz Sentinel walk away from unpaid bills as they amass personal wealth
September 25, 2022 A path to legalization and stronger rights Stuck in the Senate, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act would pave a path to legalization for field workers, strengthen the H-2A visa program
August 31, 2022 Staying in One Place Josue Chavarria started washing dishes at Toro Place Café 34 years ago; now he runs the place
February 25, 2022 Los Soñadores de Oaxaca A Yolanda Vásquez Maldonado, inmigrante mixteca de México, le tomaría seis años para terminar el programa de educación básica al que se inscribió para calificar para DACA. Pero, al contrario de muchos otros, lo completó.
February 25, 2022 The Dreamers from Oaxaca It would take Yolanda Vásquez Maldonado, a Mixteco immigrant from Mexico, six years to finish the program she signed up for to meet a DACA requirement. But, unlike many others, she completed her GED
February 18, 2022 When a hedge fund’s shell game backfires Owner of the Herald and Sentinel gets pummeled in court and SEC filings
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 2, 2021 The restless vulture The owner of the Herald, Sentinel and Merc has made a sleight-of-hand bid to buy more local papers that demands a closer look
