Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: One. Overdose. Death. A. Week. Let that sink in, from a recent Lookout report of there being “at least” six fentanyl-related ODs in the Santa Cruz Benchlands since July. Homeless advocates are threatening another lawsuit […]
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Letter to the editor: Residents’ viewpoints are missing in coverage of changes to downtown
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: I am concerned about the little information residents have and really don’t understand about the city’s objective standards, related to all future building in Santa Cruz. This is so important, yet no one I know […]
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Jewish law requires COVID-19 vaccines, and so does Simcha preschool: We must protect the most vulnerable
Temple Beth El’s preschool program, Simcha, is requiring all children, teachers and staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to attend the play-centered program in Aptos. Some families have objected to the temple board’s vaccine decision and have left the program. Rabbi Paula Marcus, the congregation’s longtime leader, argues that caring for the most vulnerable among us, and thus getting ourselves and our children vaccinated, draws directly from the commandment to preserve life — which the Jewish faith places above all others.
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Santa Cruz’s arts community needs a protective ‘SCAARF’ to survive
Longtime mixed media artist Sara Friedlander has a retrospective at the Curated by the Sea gallery in downtown Santa Cruz through Sept. 10, with her friend and fellow artist Dee Hooker. Friedlander’s art has encouraged us to rethink immigration, the systemic oppression of women, climate change, the threat to democracy and more. In a Community Voices op-ed, she writes about the need to support Santa Cruz’s artists through the “SCAARF fundraising wall of art,” which is showing along with their exhibit. Check it out; you might get to take home your favorite piece.
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Letter to the editor: Hear from the unhoused at 6 p.m. Monday; don’t let city clear the Benchlands
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. To the editor: The City of Santa Cruz wants to clear the Benchlands and says it will relocate residents to shelters. But the shelters are already filled to capacity. Unless city officials magically find at least 300 more […]
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My new yoga place is not a safe space. How could it be?
Santa Cruz yogi Valerie Moselle has been trying — and failing — to quit teaching yoga. She loves it, but she also believes yoga is too often a “colonized white space of privilege, rife with cultural appropriation and spiritual bypassing.” In a Community Voices op-ed, she explores the dichotomy and her own mixed feelings and writes about the warning sign she’d like to post outside her studio for her students.
