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Santa Cruzโ€™s 418 Project aims to reinvent itself with a bold new step toward mysticism, esoterica and the avant-garde

Under the leadership of new executive director Dennis Bartok, Santa Cruzโ€™s long-standing arts nonprofit The 418 Project is undergoing a โ€œrebirthโ€ by expanding its traditional dance focus into adventurous, self-produced programming. Read more from Wallace Baine.


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OPINION: Santa Cruz County shares 911 and libraries. Why not housing?

Santa Cruz County is losing its young families with children โ€” and local activist Kevin Norton says our fractured, agency-by-agency approach to housing is why. In a Community Voices op-ed, he offers up a new, collaborative approach to housing that he thinks will help families, teachers, first responders and others stay in our community. He believes we need to follow Orange County and the San Gabriel Valley and create a โ€œjoint powers housing trustโ€ that allows cities, agencies and the county to work together โ€“ and reduces the bureaucracy of applying for low-income housing. We coordinate for book lending and emergency services, he argues. Why not housing? Read Norton’s opinion piece here.



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