The police announced that they have a major suspect in the theft of $25,000 in funds raised by the Harbor High football team, and it is not the new coach, Travis Rebbert.
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Ten Questions for Al Frisby
The Louisiana-born multi-instrumentalist and fixture of the Santa Cruz rock & roll community spills the beans on what makes him tick.
Harbor High Football Team Suffers Pregame Loss
The Harbor High football team got a bad start to the new season—even before their first game started.
Weighing Health Care Reform
Behind the spectacle of town hall brawls, death panel paranoia and pundit jabber, there is a real effort by powerful people to change the way Americans receive and pay for their health care. Nearly everyone agrees that the industry needs reform, but questions over what role the government will play and how any of it will be paid for has the nation bitterly divided.
California Forward Gears Up for Reform Drive
Local politicians at the forefront of a new movement to help end the morass that is California’s state budget say some change may come by September.
Santa Cruz Continues to Push Water Conservation
With predictions of a wet El Niño winter in the air, Santa Cruz residents are hopeful that the state’s three-year drought may finally be coming to an end.
New Pool About to Open
One year and $3.7 million after construction first began, Santa Cruz High School will start filling its new swimming pool next week.
YouTube + Philanthropy = Santa Cruz Startup
Laika Grant Mann’s Worldflix offers potential donors an opportunity to watch interviews with the people who would benefit from their largesse.
Lockheed’s Legacy Worries Santa Cruz Winemakers
For Santa Cruz Mountain winegrowers, the Lockheed fire that burned 7,800 acres of wild lands above Bonny Doon recently came at exactly the wrong time. Of course there’s never a good time for a wildfire, but the grapes in local vineyards are starting to ripen, a developmental stage called veraison, and they’re particularly vulnerable to “smoke taint.”
Health Care Reform and Anti-Semitism
If you have been watching the health care “debate” you must be aware that it has turned into a grotesque contest on who can come up with the most outrageous Nazi comparison. This is not the first time, of course, that Hitler and Nazism have been used as props by those who, out of arguments, want to convince the other party that they are right. I used to just shrug my shoulders when faced with such people, but this time it’s different. Because now we are not dealing with some “fringe elementsԗnow we are dealing with a movement that is supported by the second most important party in this country, the GOP.
