Good morning, everyone! Will has a few more hard-earned days off, so you’re stuck with me, Mark Conley, to trudge you through the dreaded Tax Day morning. (Unless you are an accountant, of course — then you might have already moved on to some fun vacation thoughts and left any dread far behind. 😉) Either […]
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On Palm Sunday for Orthodox Christians, a town in Ukraine seeks a moment of comfort
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Sunday Reads: An ode to the vinyl evangelists
Wallace Baine: Let us now praise the record store Vinyl vitality: Amid sweeping market changes and technological turmoil, the neighborhood record store improbably finds a way to survive. Wallace Baine takes inventory of the quintessential music establishment’s comings and goings. UC Santa Cruz invites alumni and community to Alumni Week UCSC astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is […]
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Morning Lookout: Music among the dead, a well-put Weekender
Good morning! ☀️ I’m Giovanni Moujaes, filling in for the esteemed Morning Lookouter Will McCahill, who’s enjoying some well-deserved R&R. It’s Friday, April 15 — Good Friday, to be exact, for those who celebrate Easter. If you’re receiving this newsletter via email, you’ve already made my day 🙌 We experienced a technical outage with our […]
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The push to get children vaccinated is stalling. It poses new COVID-19 dangers
Despite months of outreach and on-the-ground efforts, the COVID-19 vaccination campaign for young children remains stuck in neutral — prompting experts to say more needs to be done to inform parents about the benefits of inoculation.
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California backs away from COVID vaccine mandates for kids
The state decides it won’t require COVID vaccines for children this fall, and a bill to mandate kids vaccines without personal belief exemptions stalls out.
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Student Lookout: 4/20, camping getaways, and movies filmed in Santa Cruz
An international team of scientists, co-led by UCSC Genomics Institute Associate Director Karen Miga, completed the…
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Morning Lookout: UCSC’s star mentor and Cabrillo horticulturist in full bloom
Email outage: Didn’t receive Morning Lookout via email? We’re experiencing a technical outage with our email provider and working to get it resolved. Until then, you can see each of our newsletters on the site by searching their name. Morning, Lookout fam! It’s Thursday, April 14, and Santa Cruz County is looking at an overcast […]
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Morning Lookout: Quarry’s summer concert series; ban coming on gas-fueled cars?
Greetings, Lookout friends! Today is Wednesday, April 13, and it’ll be a mostly sunny day, with temperatures ranging from the mid-50s to the low 60s. With spring having sprung (today’s chilly start notwithstanding) and summer not far off, we got some more good news yesterday from UC Santa Cruz, where the Quarry Amphitheater is set […]