While it may come as no surprise to aficionados of the wit and wisdom long promulgated by vinographer Randall Grahm, this handsome new book from University of California Press will doubtless incite, even irritate, the far-flung empire of wine snobs, honchos and poobahs.
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Local Scientist Skipped over for Nobel Prize
When Thomas Steitz, Ada Yonath, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the faculty of UCSC was puzzled.
Police Seize Marijuana Plants
While the movement to legalize marijuana in California gains momentum, the CHP is continuing to prosecute people for possession of the plant.
Search Continues for Elias Sorokin
It’s been two and a half months since Elias Sorokin was murdered near Santa Cruz in an apparent drug deal gone bad.
Santa Cruz Community TV Dangles By A Cable
On the south end of Pacific Avenue, inside the long, cream-colored hallways and clustered, video-screen-adorned studio rooms of Community Television of Santa Cruz County, you could cut the tension with a knife. Six months past the deadline, Craig Jutson, the studio’s happy-go-lucky interim director, hasn’t been given an annual budget yet. Instead he’s been given access to funds on a quarterly basis and is staring at a cut-off date of Nov. 30 unless city and county leaders approve another few months of financing for the shoestring studio.
Santa Cruz Credit Unions In Hot Water
Five of the six credit unions serving Santa Cruz County reported steep losses this past quarter. According to J. Stewart Fulle, President of the Monterey Credit Union, “These are the highest loan losses we’ve ever seen.”
Santa Cruz Road Contractors Play Market Limbo
With the economy in a downturn, road contractors are ready to do whatever it takes to find work, even if it means reducing their profits. Throughout Santa Cruz County, the cost of large public projects have dropped far beyond anticipated costs, saving the county money and getting more essential work done.
Keeley Talks Taxes
The Santa Cruz County Treasurer helps demystify a bandied-about phrase: the business net receipts tax.
A Social Movement, Not Budget Reform
UCSC doctoral candidate Christopher Barkan explains why student protesters won’t be satisfied with mere budget reform. “What is needed is a broad social movement,” he writes, “to articulate a new collective vision for the future that will replace this era of narrow special interests and for-profit social engineering.”
County Releases Education Office Salaries
While the California School Boards Association is preparing to sue the state over dwindling education funding, Santa Clara County released the salaries of its 400 employees.
