In the four years since it opened, the Majestic All-Stars Cheer Gym in Watsonville has become a local institution.
Child Porn Case May Extend to Santa Cruz
The SCPD is looking for people who know Richard Werner Schweich.
How Many Jobs Can Santa Cruz Get for $106 Million?
Officially, 150 jobs were added to Santa Cruz over 2009, with 86 of them in the final quarter. County officials are more optimistic, saying that as many as 362 jobs were either created or saved last year through the county’s departments alone—and that this doesn’t count small businesses that benefited.
Santa Cruz Prosecutor Says: No Hoodia, No Diet Pills
A Santa Cruz prosecutor discovered that the weight-loss supplement DEX L-10, touted for its Hoodia Gorodoni, had about as much Hoodia in it as a Coke bottle. Prosecutor Kelly Walker took the manufacturers to court to prevent Breakthrough Engineered Nutrition Inc. from selling their pill in California.
Progressive Jewish Group Comes to Santa Cruz
“Pro-Israel, pro-peace” may not sound like a controversial mantra for a political action committee, but in the world of Israeli-American foreign policy advocates, it’s loaded with meaning.
Cafe Gabriella: I’m Not Dead Yet
Owner Paul Cocking announced Gabriella’s would close over the weekend, but now things are looking up.
Is Santa Cruz Rail Line in Limbo?
There was some bad news for Sierra Northern Railway, the freight train company that runs the Santa Cruz rail line.
The Exotic Is Among Us
When travel writer Eric Hansen wrote Orchid Fever in 2000, the Columbus Dispatch commented that “The exotic, it turns out, is among us.” As it was in Santa Cruz this weekend. Botany, obsession, and plant-politics converged in Soquel for the Santa Cruz Orchid Society’s Orchid Show. “You can get off alcohol, drugs, women, food, and cars,” says Joe Kunisch, a commercial orchid grower from Rochester, New York, “but once you’re hooked on orchids, you’re finished.”
Go Populist Now
Election results rarely have a single explanation. Yet it’s pretty clear that Scott Brown’s special election win in a state that last sent a Republican to the United States Senate in 1978 is an indicator of the turbulent national political mood a year after Obama took office.
UCSC Postpones Cage-Free Policy
After Prop. 2 passed, banning battery-cage egg production in the state, UC-Santa Cruz senior Eric Deardorff and his group Banana Slugs for Animals approached dining services about making it campus-wide policy to serve only cage-free eggs. As of this fall, it appeared that talks with Director of Dining Services Scott Berlin were going extremely well.
