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Supervisor Letter Shows Dog Leash Tensions
News Mar 09, 2012, by Jacob Pierce
Officers from the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter started issuing tickets earlier this year for people walking their dogs without leashes. Judging from a recent newsletter from Santa Cruz County Supervisor John Leopold, the enforcement change is causing a stir in parts of the county.
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LAFCO Delays Decision on UCSC Water Expansion
NewsEnvironment Mar 08, 2012, by Jacob PierceThe Santa Cruz Local Agency Formation Commission voted yesterday by a narrow margin to kick a can of water issues farther down the road.
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UCSC Alum Edited Occupy Movement Paper
News Mar 06, 2012, by Garrett McAuliffe
Two weeks after the first protestors unrolled their sleeping bags in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street’s inaugural newspaper hit the streets of lower Manhattan, hot off the people’s press. Among those hawking that first free issue of The Occupied Wall Street Journal was UCSC graduate Michael Levitin. A journalist by trade, Levitin jumped at the chance to join in the paper’s creation and help broadcast the diversity of voices and shared frustrations from within the fledgling movement.
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Montessori Charter Advocates Drop Controversial Video
News Mar 06, 2012, by Traci Hukill 26 Comments
Nobody’s born with political acumen. It develops, often painfully, from the experience-driven discovery that something you just did pissed off a lot of people. Which might resonate with the organizers of a group called the Maria Montessori Charter School Families. They’ve learned firsthand, at their own pace (in a very Montessori way, you might say), a hard lesson about selling their concept for a charter elementary school to public school officials. Namely: First beware of insulting them.
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Libertarian Think Tank Hosts Public Pensions Debate
NewsPolitics Mar 06, 2012, by Jacob PierceA Santa Barbara–based think tank is hoping to turn up the heat on California’s discussion of public employee compensation in a series of debates with a libertarian slant. Oddly enough, the first stop is in Santa Cruz.
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Council Agrees to Hold Desal Vote No Sooner Than June 2014
NewsPolitics Feb 29, 2012, by Jacob Pierce
The city’s discussion of desalination took another surprise turn at the Feb. 28 Santa Cruz City Council meeting. The change has to do with two competing plans from activists and city officials to put desalination to a vote. Originally it looked like the plan advanced by Mayor Don Lane and Councilmember David Terrazas would call for a vote in 2013, while the activists’ measure would call for a vote in 2014, a delay that Lane insisted could cost the city millions of dollars.
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Water Customers Want to Be Included in Desal Vote
NewsPolitics Feb 28, 2012, by Jacob Pierce 1 CommentsPS_120_120_cy_100.jpg "County Supervisor John Leopold")
If given the choice, Michael Lewis says he’ll vote against any plan to construct a $100 million-plus desalination plant to increase the Santa Cruz area water supply. “I’m opposed to it for a number of reasons,” says the Live Oak resident. That’s why he’s hoping he gets the chance to weigh in.
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Debate on Desal and Growth Coming to Head
NewsEnvironmentPolitics Feb 28, 2012, by Juan GuzmanStormy seas lie ahead for proponents of the city’s plan to build a desalination plant, and the name of the thunderhead is UC-Santa Cruz. On March 7, the Santa Cruz County Local Agency Formation (LAFCO) decides whether or not to extend water rights for the university’s proposed expansion into the North Campus natural reserve area.
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CORRECTED: City, Activists Stand by Separate Desal Initiatives
NewsPolitics Feb 23, 2012, by Jacob Pierce
When Santa Cruz Mayor Don Lane read local activists’ ballot initiative to put desal to a vote, he says one thing caught his attention. It had to do with timing. Lane agrees with a host of activists that Santa Cruz voters should weigh in on whether or not to build a $100 million-plus desalination plant on the Westside to increase the fresh water supply. But they agree on little else—including when to hold the vote.
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Lane and Terrazas Want Desal Ballot Measure
News Feb 15, 2012, by Jacob PierceIt might be an overstatement to say Santa Cruz’s discussion over desalination has been blown out of the water, but it definitely just changed. Mayor Don Lane and Councilmember David Terrazas will propose an ordinance at the next city council meeting that would put a desal plant to a vote sooner rather than later, as outlined in a statement released Wednesday, Feb. 15.
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