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Are the inmates running the asylum?

April 19, 2025

Letters to the editor, Oct. 19-25

Letter: Homegrown, or another outsider?

Civics Summit Planning Committee, Dec. 16: Your vote is your voice

Dori Rose Inda: Senate health care bill threatens the well-being of our community

Guest View: Absurd decision threatens fairgrounds’ future

October 7, 2022

By GREG CAPUT The Santa Cruz County Fair was facing bankruptcy when Dave Kegebein entered his position to save our county fairgrounds. The state had pulled back funding and thus threatened the existence of the fair. Many county fairgrounds have shut down in California due to...

Sesario Escoto, Nov. 30: Be the bridge for children in foster care

November 30, 2018

CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) exists because children in the foster care system need a voice. These young people experience great loss and trauma, and CASA of Santa Cruz County provides a light in the darkness that can fall upon this time in their lives; that light being the CASA volunteers.

ICE becomes an autocratic tool

December 23, 2025

It is generally accepted that, historically, a common survival strategy for autocratic leaders includes forming a personal paramilitary support group. These groups serve to counterbalance the regular military, strengthen security services and provide an armed force loyal directly to the leaders, rather than the...

July 13, 2023

C&N Tractors on Salinas Road just finished repairing my Kubota tractor in February when the levee burst. Suddenly it was under six feet of water. After the mud and flood receded, the tractor needed serious help. I want to express my gratitude to Nigel Mallison,...

Damaris Arciga, Dec. 21: How an ATM stole my Christmas

December 20, 2018

On Nov. 23, I went to my local Watsonville Chase Bank to deposit $2,000.

September 21, 2020

By Greg Caput, County Supervisor To what standards are we held or judged by? If the standard is perfection, then everyone fails. A symbol of George Washington is under scrutiny at the Watsonville City Plaza. He was a victorious hero of the revolution 245 years...

Letters to the editor Oct. 3 – 9

October 2, 2025

Bring tennis back to Callaghan Park There are many American legends of men’s professional tennis. And from its beginnings, the United States has produced the finest players the world over. In recent decades that has not been the case. Why? The decline of interest in...

July 24, 2020

Memo from Rev. Mathews-Johnson I don’t know about you, but there’ve been times in my life when I thought something was missing. You know what I mean. Like when you’re young and single and things are going along fine, except you long for something else,...

July 12, 2019

Letters to the Editor, July 12, 2019.

August 31, 2018

Letters to the Editor, Aug. 31, 2018

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Opinion

Are the inmates running the asylum?

Letters to the editor, Oct. 19-25

Letter: Homegrown, or another outsider?

Civics Summit Planning Committee, Dec. 16: Your vote is your voice

Dori Rose Inda: Senate health care bill threatens the well-being of our community

Guest View: Absurd decision threatens fairgrounds’ future

Sesario Escoto, Nov. 30: Be the bridge for children in foster care

ICE becomes an autocratic tool

Letter: Gratitude for C&N Tractors

Damaris Arciga, Dec. 21: How an ATM stole my Christmas

Setting unreachable standards

Letters to the editor Oct. 3 – 9

‘Missing’

Letters to the Editor, July 12, 2019

Letters to the Editor, Aug. 31

RTC looks to federal, state government to fill rail funding gap

Valentine Queens honored at Beta Sigma Phi Luncheon

Freedom man arrested for child sex crimes

Letters to the Editor March 6-12

Rewriting America’s history