Category Archives: Weekly Articles

Highlights this week: BRATTON…about CLUE’s meeting to stop UCSC growth, UCSC’s cruel and vindictative 420 weed citations, KSQD meeting and progress, Netflix and the Del Mar and Nickelodeon. GREENSITE on UCSC future growth…KROHN and non-transparency and the City Council, council … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON about stopping UCSC Growth meeting, stopping the Nissan Dealership in Soquel, moving city offices to the present library site, what “420” celebration?, Frankenstein’s 200th Celebration…GREENSITE on council decision for West Cliff path e-bike project…KROHN Google buses, … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON…The Del Mar and Nickelodeon are up for sale, A new Parks and Rec. director for Santa Cruz, Thomas Pynchon news, Tom Lehrer news at the age of 90, Lou Harrison Civic Auditorium…GREENSITE on the Affordable Housing … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON…the continuing Octagon mystery, Live Oak development, UCSC meadow development, our public library, Lou Harrison’s other house…GREENSITE on the Housing Blues …KROHN is on vacation this week and his column will return next week.…STEINBRUNER re Aptos Village’s … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON about Burying the Library, KSQD progress…GREENSITE on the city’s proposed sales tax increase…KROHN re UCSC growth locally and beyond, developer’s bonus plans… STEINBRUNER covers dirty drinking water, Groppetti –Nissan dealership in Soquel, cannabis licensing, and reasonable … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON…and the Dream Inn Cliff & Bay development, UCSC’s East Meadow plot and plans, natural foods markets in the area, Santa Cruz Indivisible, Robbie Schoen is alive and very well, Assassins the musical coming to Ben Lomond…GREENSITE … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON…New Leaf Markets Corporate structure, Eduardo Carrillo appreciated in Pasadena…GREENSITE on the city asleep at the PG&E switch…KROHN about City council togetherness, rent control…STEINBRUNER on affordable housing guidelines, building permits, pure water Soquel, sewage and drinking water, … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON about Google and our silicon beach development, Dream Inn plans slightly revised back again, Bonny Doon & Cemex property…GREENSITE on UCSC growth hype…KROHN deals with Soda tax and Exxon pressure, rent control…STEINBRUNER reports on cannabis licensing, … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON on UCSC growth, the chancellor, the state…GREENSITE on saving the Washington St. tree…KROHN about San Diego’s California Democrats convention, rent control history, UCSC’s growth issue…STEINBRUNER and water tax, Friend and Coonerty and sb623 and politics, property … Continue reading →

Highlights this week: BRATTON…No hotel at 7th and Brommer?, Octagon and MAH opinion, loud motorcycles — an explanation, sad farewell to Santa Cruz, Presidents’ Birthdays…GREENSITE on gun violence…KROHN about City Council and the Rent Freeze, UCSC and water rights, beverage … Continue reading →