Author Archives: Bruce

Highlights this week: BRATTON…Flu shots and Covid Vaccine, Literary Guillotine, Girl Scout Cookies, movie critiques. GREENSITE…UCSC Long Range Destruction Plan. KROHN…Council meetings, zoom meetings, 831 Water Street meetings, AOC tweet of the week. STEINBRUNER…$400,000 gift to Swenson & Aptos Village, … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON…Joe B. over Bernie or Elizabeth! Girl Scouts protesting cookies, Democratic Socialists of Santa Cruz. GREENSITE…on yet another David and Goliath development. KROHN…Journalism II, Bellafonte, Crowley and Klein. STEINBRUNER…831 Water Street development, affordable housing possible, legalizing tiny … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON…What Covid shots?, Bookshop History details, Lord’s Last Supper revisited, Santa Cruz protest documentary, Move to Amend, movie critiques, Brattyworld. GREENSITE…on the Riverfront Development. KROHN…3 Dot journalism, Caen, Ivins, Cockburn. STEINBRUNER…Regional Transportation Commission mystery, sewage and disease, … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON…Capitol Punishment, untweeting Trump and censorship, Pence’s secret plans, Bookshop Santa Cruz & Palace Stationers, Movie Critiques. GREENSITE…on UCSC Growth. KROHN…Chris Krohn will be back next week. STEINBRUNER…Contaminated soil in Aptos Village, access (NOT) to board of … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON…Bemoaning our “educated” community, request for support. GREENSITE on Houseless camping at San Lorenzo Park. KROHN…remembering Ruth Hunter. STEINBRUNER…Cleaning up the Davenport Cement Plant, no public access for Board of Supes, saving the Robert Merriman House’s last … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: NO BRATTONONLINE NEXT WEEK…BRATTON…holiday homeless cruelty, Cynthia Mathews’ next campaign, screamers & screeners. GREENSITE…Reflections on Monarchs KROHN…Progressive victories, watch these groups, City Attorney loans. STEINBRUNER…Rural area building issues, Soquel Creek Water Board privileges, egos, and money issues. … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON…College towns voting for Biden, Quarnstrom poetry book, Scribner Statue news. GREENSITE… on how to ruin a historic icon: the Wharf and where to go from here. KROHN…District elections, conservatives & moderates, ranked choice voting, direct election … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON…Highway One and the RTC overpass plans, new book on Secret walking Santa Cruz. GREENSITE…is off this week. Will return next week with Don’t Morph the Wharf! and the next steps to save our historic icon. KROHN…Developers’ connections … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON…Cotoni-Coast Monumental Park again, Del Mar, Capitola, Scotts Valley movie theatres all closed, Streamers and screeners. GREENSITE…on the Wharf hearing. KROHN…The real left coast, Santa Cruz’s left, looking at state props. STEINBRUNER …Septic tanks permits in the … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON…Masks and some serious questions, CAHOOTS and meaning, movie critiques. GREENSITE…words to council for the hearing on the Wharf Master Plan. KROHN…Joe Biden appointments ,Bernie and cabinet members, Manu and Leopold money and sources. STEINBRUNER…Huge development at … Continue reading →