How the proposed $15 State Park Access Pass, scheduled for a vote today as part of California Democrats’ answer to Gov. Schwarzenegger’s budget, would work.
Santa Cruz May Forfeit Once-Profitable Golf Course
You could play dozens of public golf courses in America and be hard pressed to find one better maintained than Santa Cruz’s city-owned De Laveaga Golf Course. With 6,010 yards of expertly manicured fairways and greens you could eat eggs off of, the course is the handiwork of a top-notch, well-paid group of unionized golf course professionals.
We Can Save Our Parks As Part of Budget Solution
District 27 Assemblymember Bill Monning makes the case for the $15 State Parks Access Pass fee, which would fully fund the state parks system. “Although deep cuts are necessary to balance the budget, how we make those cuts and how we advance alternatives will reflect our values as a state,” he writes.
Ten Questions for Miranda Janeschild
Mir and A Company founder Miranda Janeschild on miracles, her work and accidentally forgetting her coffee cup.
Santa Cruz Hardbodies Go Bicep-a-Bicep
“Guys,” calls out Kelvin Fountano, president of the World Body & Fitness Association. “Make sure when you go onstage your wear your number on your left side.” Left side, on the left. The words ripple through the dimly lit Rio Theatre auditorium as family members and trainers fuss over bodybuilders of all sizes at Saturday’s Santa Cruz Bodybuilding and Figure Championships in Seabright. “This isn’t one of our biggest events,” says Fountano. “But it’s one of our funnest.
Seacliff Beachgoers Just Say No to Parks Closures
A red electric wheelchair flies down the road to the beach at a whole two miles an hour. There, groups of children dig the classic tunnel to Australia or sculpt mermaid bodies on friends buried up to their necks in sand. At the end of the pier, families stare in awe of the cement World War I tanker. All this could change if Gov. Schwarzenegger and the state legislature close 80 percent of California state parks to help balance the budget deficit. The immense closure would include all of the 19 state parks in Santa Cruz County.
Ten Questions for Noah Meites
The winner of the prestigious BMI Student Composer Award answers our nosy questions about what he likes, what he doesn’t like and how he got here.
Capitola Mulls Affordable Housing Sites
On Thursday night the Capitola City Council left its special meeting about rezoning for high-density affordable housing torn between approving two or three sites and setting the stage for a showdown next week over a property on Park Avenue.
Big Creek Lumber Seeks Special Consideration in Salmon Rules
There was surely a time when the last thing an aspiring forester ever thought he or she would be concerned with was protecting fish. Now, it seems, tiptoeing around salmon and steelhead is as natural a part of life for loggers in northern California as poison oak, and the laws that guard the state’s threatened salmonids might be about to get tougher.
Owlets on The Wing in Downtown Santa Cruz
It’s late dusk, about an hour after sundown. That’s when the first hissing screeches begin to sound in the treetops.
“There they are!” exclaims a binocular-wielding Rebecca Dmytryk, founder of the emergency wildlife care organization WildRescue. “You can hear the juveniles. The whole family will be hunting overhead soon.”
