Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News avoids a potentially embarrassing trial with Dominion Voting Systems over its false reporting on allegations of 2020 election fraud. The Denver-based voting machine maker had been seeking $1.6 billion in damages.
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Morning Lookout: A Mission Street overhaul, housing mandates & a nonprofit leader
Isabelle Tuncer, executive director of nonprofit organization El Sistema Santa Cruz, spoke with Lookout about being…
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District 3 Supervisor Justin Cummings earned an influential statewide role in March when Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon…
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Morning Lookout: Monterey day trip, weekend recommendations & Student Lookout
Ben Lomond native turned Texan transplant Jesse Daniel plays a homecoming show Friday in support of his new live album,…
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Student Lookout: Local empanadas, outdoor summer spots and a profile of a legendary basketball coach
UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus John Brown Childs teaches a course on transcommunality, his concept of peaceful…
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Highway 17 closures, tree clearing to continue through April
More tree clearing work is on the way, as commuters between Santa Cruz and Silicon Valley can expect daytime delays on Highway 17 through the month of April.
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Morning Lookout: Pols’ Pajaro pressure, UCSC land acknowledgment, Capitola holdup
Lookout columnist Claudia Sternbach once again shares her thoughts and humor about aging. She ponders her “inevitable…
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Feinstein, facing calls to resign, vows to return to Senate but asks to step away from committee
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s extended absence with shingles has complicated the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s judicial and administrative nominees given the Democrats’ slim majority in the chamber.
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Padilla, Panetta promise to ‘pressure’ pace of Pajaro levee project
U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Jimmy Panetta visited the banks of the Pajaro River on Wednesday in an effort to get the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers moving faster on not only repairs to the levee whose failure flooded the town of Pajaro in March but also the long-promised levee overhaul. The Corps is aiming to finish emergency repairs by the fall, and to break ground on a long-promised $400 million upgrade by summer 2024.
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Morning Lookout: Cummings’ Coastal Commission priorities, SC Shakespeare transition & Hwy. 17 tree work
Road work to clear up precarious trees and vegetation has been ongoing since March 30, causing significant delays on…