Quick Take
Lookout’s interviews with the folks making headlines around Santa Cruz County.
Lookout Q&A: Santa Cruz County newsmakers in their own words
There are 78 stories.
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1
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State Sen. John Laird announced last week that he plans to seek reelection in 2024. A second four-year term in the...
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2
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Jennifer Egan comes to UC Santa Cruz’s Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on Wednesday riding the wave of “The Candy House,” which...
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3
Quick Take
UC Santa Cruz professor of environmental studies Chris Wilmers has spent more than 15 years researching the population...
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4
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For Santa Cruz City Councilmember Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson, the ongoing uprising in Iran is personal. She and her...
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5
Quick Take
Even as politicians from President Joe Biden on down flocked to tour storm-ravaged areas of Santa Cruz County, Fred...
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6
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Nearly 48,000 University of California academic workers went on strike for better pay and benefits late last year —...
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7
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Mark Strudley of the new Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency hasn’t been on the job for long and hasn’t even had...
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8
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Cabrillo College is embarking on the second phase of its name-change process: proposing and approving a new name. This...
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9
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Evan Morrison’s four-month-old Santa Cruz Free Guide, which has been running the Safe RV Parking program at the Armory,...
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10
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“First thing is to do your best to dry out your property and stabilize it. Be safe, and recognize that most people are...
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11
Quick Take
Deb Perelman is a self-taught home cook who, over the past 17 years, has earned millions of devotees for her unfussy and...
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12
Quick Take
After California voters approved Proposition 28 in November, public schools will start receiving about $1 billion for...
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13
Quick Take
Nathan Nguyen is the City of Santa Cruz’s new public works director, taking over for the retired Mark Dettle, who held...
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14
Quick Take
Local historian and longtime Cabrillo College instructor Sandy Lydon started working at the college 10 years after it...
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15
Quick Take
More than any other factor, Santa Cruz County Clerk Tricia Webber says voter behavior is the reason for the prolonged...
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16
Quick Take
Reyes Morales Warne says growing up transgender in Santa Cruz County had its positives and its negatives. While...
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17
Quick Take
Santa Cruzan Avery Ruzicka, Manresa Bread’s founder and head baker, brings the bakery to the Westside, joining outposts...
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18
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“I don’t want people to think I was trying to steal from the fairgrounds,” Dave Kegebein says in a Q&A in the wake of...
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19
New Cal State Monterey Bay prez Vanya Quiñones talks about student growth, equity ... and a cute cow
Quick Take
Cal State University Monterey Bay President Vanya Quiñones has plans to increase enrollment, expand academic programs...
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20
Quick Take
The COVID-19 pandemic has uncorked the genie from the bottle on telehealth. UC Santa Cruz alums Aviv Elor, Ash Robbins...
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21
How one Santa Cruz teacher teaches U.S. history and how she sees her role as a history teacher today
Quick Take
At Lookout, we’re starting a series about how local teachers confront everyday challenges in their classrooms and how...
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22
Quick Take
Now in its third edition, “The Wine Bible” is one of the best-selling books on wine of all time. Author Karen MacNeil...
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23
Quick Take
Anju Reejhsinghani started as UC Santa Cruz’s first vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion Sept. 12 after...
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24
Quick Take
New student body president Alfredo Gama Salmeron is feeling the excitement of the new year among UC Santa Cruz students...
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25
Quick Take
For 30 years, the Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz has been a hub for research on Latin American...
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26
Quick Take
Many Santa Cruzans might think of the small Patagonia outlet store on River Street as the only local vestige of the...
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27
Quick Take
U.S. News and World Report ranked the UC Santa Cruz undergraduate game design program among the top five in the nation,...
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28
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Xaloc Cabanes has survived a lot — and applied it, heading Santa Cruz County’s mental health advisory board. His “lived...
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29
‘We’re kind of a big family’: Inside the Aptos farmers market, Santa Cruz County’s first and biggest
Quick Take
For 30 years, Catherine Barr has managed the market, from its infancy hosting 15 scrappy farmers to now 70 and thriving...
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30
Quick Take
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center at UC Santa Cruz’s coastal campus is gearing up to revamp its visitor exhibits and...
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31
Quick Take
After his research showed huge gaps in the pandemic’s effect on white-owned versus minority-owned businesses, UC Santa...
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32
Quick Take
After 20 years of struggling under for-profit ownership, Watsonville Community Hospital has returned to public hands as...
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33
Quick Take
Nesh Dhillon has managed Santa Cruz Community Farmers’ Markets for more than 20 years. In that time, he has ushered in...
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34
Quick Take
As schools welcomed students back to classrooms this past week, education leaders, including Santa Cruz County...
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35
Quick Take
Lizzy Fowler‘s classes have attracted veterans and newcomers alike, with players forging bonds that extend off the...
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36
Quick Take
One of two candidates to lead the city of Santa Cruz into its district-elections future as mayor, Fred Keeley, a noted...
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37
Quick Take
Despite having never held elected office, Joy Schendledecker says her mutual aid work in the community has provided her...
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38
Quick Take
Spike Wong’s latest play, “White Sky, Falling Dragon,” is just weeks away from its COVID-delayed premiere Aug. 26. Very...
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39
Quick Take
Santa Cruz County’s fourth-largest school district is seeing a 30% turnover of staff this year amid issues of...
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40
Quick Take
Could this research, produced by Daniel Kim’s UC Santa Cruz lab of eight, lead to earlier detection and treatment for...
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41
Quick Take
When she turned from biologist to sociologist and human rights advocate 25 years ago, Ann Lopez realized how dire the...
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42
Quick Take
Nate Armstrong has gotten got a big increase in funding to prepare for what’s ahead. But with an unending fire season —...
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43
Quick Take
UC Santa Cruz stem cell biologist Lindsay Hinck wants to solve a global and deeply personal problem: Why do some women...
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44
Quick Take
There are no machine politics to be played out in this Westside Santa Cruz shaping bay, one of the last of its kind in...
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45
Quick Take
Scotts Valley High freshman Mateo Deihl was different, his family and friends say, in wonderful ways. A traumatized...
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46
Quick Take
America has the highest per-capita gun ownership in the world — estimated at about 120 per 100 residents. Vinnie Hansen...
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47
Quick Take
delfin bautista joined UC Santa Cruz this spring as director of the center that supports and advocates for the...
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48
From Aptos to MLB via Auckland, Oakland A’s pitcher and Aptos High alum Jared Koenig on his new life
Quick Take
A yearslong journey through different levels of professional baseball finally paid off for Jared Koenig, who made his...
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49
Quick Take
Bruno, a 100,000-year-old polar bear, is at the root of a breakthrough understanding. UC Santa Cruz scientists Beth...
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50
Quick Take
Says local United Way head Keisha Browder: “We went to Natural Bridges and then to Henry Cowell. And it was like, ‘Wow.’...
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51
Quick Take
Superintendent of Schools Faris Sabbah will get a second four-year term leading the Santa Cruz County Office of...
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52
Quick Take
Santa Cruz County poet laureate David Sullivan talks about upcoming events — a show opening Friday at the downtown...
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53
Quick Take
Our wealth of fresh organic produce enticed John Harry, the new chef of Venus Spirits Cocktails & Kitchen Beachside, to...
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54
Quick Take
Fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz discusses the enduring popularity of fermented foods, their ubiquity in cultures...
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55
Quick Take
Suddenly rising interest rates have thrown a new wrench into the plans of prospective home buyers. Can it get any worse?...
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56
Quick Take
As the Our Downtown, Our Future group waits for approval for a voter measure for November to challenge the current new...
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57
Quick Take
Starting this fall, UC Santa Cruz students can major in a new global and community health program, with about 100...
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58
Quick Take
Climate change. Drought. More public needs of every kind. We asked new city of Santa Cruz fire chief Rob Oatey what...
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59
Quick Take
After serving as interim chief following the resignation of former chief Andy Mills in October, Bernie Escalante moves...
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60
Quick Take
John R. Lewis’ life and commitment to social justice, from the streets of Alabama to the halls of Congress, are...
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61
Quick Take
Santa Cruz-based company Big Pete’s Treats has come a long way from Pete Feurtado’s kitchen on the Westside. Along with...
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62
Quick Take
What is AI? And where is it taking us? We talk with entrepreneur and gadfly G. Craig Vachon, who leads a panel...
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63
Quick Take
One year and three months into his first political foray, First District County Supervisor Manu Koenig has run into some...
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64
Quick Take
As three Santa Cruz Starbucks stores lead much of the chain unionizing in California, local leader Joseph Thompson cites...
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65
Quick Take
Recruitment of others led Gail Pellerin to the revelation that no one has better qualifications for the California State...
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66
Quick Take
There are only a dozen surfing ecosystems on earth that have been designated as World Surfing Reserves, communities that...
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67
Quick Take
When New York Times economics correspondent Conor Dougherty first moved back to San Francisco from the East Coast in...
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68
Zoom, social anxiety, new fun — and sleep: UCSC student body president talks reemerging student life
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UC Santa Cruz Student Union Assembly President Shivika Sivakumar describes the “revival” on campus after two COVID-torn...
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69
Quick Take
In the city of Santa Cruz, it’s been a rough, tumultuous stretch for all elected officials and staff trying to triage...
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70
Quick Take
Celebrated writer Reyna Grande triumphantly returns to her alma mater with a new novel set during the Mexican-American...
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71
Quick Take
Cryptozoology — and the study of cryptids — has never been a joke to Michael Rugg, proprietor of Felton’s Bigfoot...
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72
Quick Take
2021 produced unprecedented hunger in Santa Cruz County. Among those recognized by Second Harvest Food Bank for helping...
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73
Quick Take
Jewel Theatre Company artistic director Julie James says she has one goal: To produce one new play a year.
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74
Quick Take
Starlight Elementary School students will have access to a state-of-the-art garden and kitchen center next fall after...
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75
Quick Take
Acclaimed Santa Cruz cookbook author Andrea Nguyen gives her tips on using local veggies, cookbook how-tos and where to...
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76
Quick Take
Three weeks ago, local developer Workbench broke ground on a 13-townhouse development in Soquel. Lookout talked to...
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77
Quick Take
Superintendent of Schools Faris Sabbah says Santa Cruz County parents are bullying teachers, upsetting staff and filing...
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78
Quick Take
“You know how when you find something that you love, it just feels like you don’t want to stop? That was how public...
Quick Take
Lookout’s interviews with the folks making headlines around Santa Cruz County.
There are 78 stories.
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1
Quick Take
State Sen. John Laird announced last week that he plans to seek reelection in 2024. A second four-year term in the...
-
2
Quick Take
Jennifer Egan comes to UC Santa Cruz’s Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on Wednesday riding the wave of “The Candy House,” which...
-
3
Quick Take
UC Santa Cruz professor of environmental studies Chris Wilmers has spent more than 15 years researching the population...
-
4
Quick Take
For Santa Cruz City Councilmember Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson, the ongoing uprising in Iran is personal. She and her...
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5
Quick Take
Even as politicians from President Joe Biden on down flocked to tour storm-ravaged areas of Santa Cruz County, Fred...
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6
Quick Take
Nearly 48,000 University of California academic workers went on strike for better pay and benefits late last year —...
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7
Quick Take
Mark Strudley of the new Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency hasn’t been on the job for long and hasn’t even had...
-
8
Quick Take
Cabrillo College is embarking on the second phase of its name-change process: proposing and approving a new name. This...
-
9
Quick Take
Evan Morrison’s four-month-old Santa Cruz Free Guide, which has been running the Safe RV Parking program at the Armory,...
-
10
Quick Take
“First thing is to do your best to dry out your property and stabilize it. Be safe, and recognize that most people are...
-
11
Quick Take
Deb Perelman is a self-taught home cook who, over the past 17 years, has earned millions of devotees for her unfussy and...
-
12
Quick Take
After California voters approved Proposition 28 in November, public schools will start receiving about $1 billion for...
-
13
Quick Take
Nathan Nguyen is the City of Santa Cruz’s new public works director, taking over for the retired Mark Dettle, who held...
-
14
Quick Take
Local historian and longtime Cabrillo College instructor Sandy Lydon started working at the college 10 years after it...
-
15
Quick Take
More than any other factor, Santa Cruz County Clerk Tricia Webber says voter behavior is the reason for the prolonged...
-
16
Quick Take
Reyes Morales Warne says growing up transgender in Santa Cruz County had its positives and its negatives. While...
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17
Quick Take
Santa Cruzan Avery Ruzicka, Manresa Bread’s founder and head baker, brings the bakery to the Westside, joining outposts...
-
18
Quick Take
“I don’t want people to think I was trying to steal from the fairgrounds,” Dave Kegebein says in a Q&A in the wake of...
-
19
New Cal State Monterey Bay prez Vanya Quiñones talks about student growth, equity ... and a cute cow
Quick Take
Cal State University Monterey Bay President Vanya Quiñones has plans to increase enrollment, expand academic programs...
-
20
Quick Take
The COVID-19 pandemic has uncorked the genie from the bottle on telehealth. UC Santa Cruz alums Aviv Elor, Ash Robbins...
-
21
How one Santa Cruz teacher teaches U.S. history and how she sees her role as a history teacher today
Quick Take
At Lookout, we’re starting a series about how local teachers confront everyday challenges in their classrooms and how...
-
22
Quick Take
Now in its third edition, “The Wine Bible” is one of the best-selling books on wine of all time. Author Karen MacNeil...
-
23
Quick Take
Anju Reejhsinghani started as UC Santa Cruz’s first vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion Sept. 12 after...
-
24
Quick Take
New student body president Alfredo Gama Salmeron is feeling the excitement of the new year among UC Santa Cruz students...
-
25
Quick Take
For 30 years, the Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz has been a hub for research on Latin American...
-
26
Quick Take
Many Santa Cruzans might think of the small Patagonia outlet store on River Street as the only local vestige of the...
-
27
Quick Take
U.S. News and World Report ranked the UC Santa Cruz undergraduate game design program among the top five in the nation,...
-
28
Quick Take
Xaloc Cabanes has survived a lot — and applied it, heading Santa Cruz County’s mental health advisory board. His “lived...
-
29
‘We’re kind of a big family’: Inside the Aptos farmers market, Santa Cruz County’s first and biggest
Quick Take
For 30 years, Catherine Barr has managed the market, from its infancy hosting 15 scrappy farmers to now 70 and thriving...
-
30
Quick Take
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center at UC Santa Cruz’s coastal campus is gearing up to revamp its visitor exhibits and...
-
31
Quick Take
After his research showed huge gaps in the pandemic’s effect on white-owned versus minority-owned businesses, UC Santa...
-
32
Quick Take
After 20 years of struggling under for-profit ownership, Watsonville Community Hospital has returned to public hands as...
-
33
Quick Take
Nesh Dhillon has managed Santa Cruz Community Farmers’ Markets for more than 20 years. In that time, he has ushered in...
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34
Quick Take
As schools welcomed students back to classrooms this past week, education leaders, including Santa Cruz County...
-
35
Quick Take
Lizzy Fowler‘s classes have attracted veterans and newcomers alike, with players forging bonds that extend off the...
-
36
Quick Take
One of two candidates to lead the city of Santa Cruz into its district-elections future as mayor, Fred Keeley, a noted...
-
37
Quick Take
Despite having never held elected office, Joy Schendledecker says her mutual aid work in the community has provided her...
-
38
Quick Take
Spike Wong’s latest play, “White Sky, Falling Dragon,” is just weeks away from its COVID-delayed premiere Aug. 26. Very...
-
39
Quick Take
Santa Cruz County’s fourth-largest school district is seeing a 30% turnover of staff this year amid issues of...
-
40
Quick Take
Could this research, produced by Daniel Kim’s UC Santa Cruz lab of eight, lead to earlier detection and treatment for...
-
41
Quick Take
When she turned from biologist to sociologist and human rights advocate 25 years ago, Ann Lopez realized how dire the...
-
42
Quick Take
Nate Armstrong has gotten got a big increase in funding to prepare for what’s ahead. But with an unending fire season —...
-
43
Quick Take
UC Santa Cruz stem cell biologist Lindsay Hinck wants to solve a global and deeply personal problem: Why do some women...
-
44
Quick Take
There are no machine politics to be played out in this Westside Santa Cruz shaping bay, one of the last of its kind in...
-
45
Quick Take
Scotts Valley High freshman Mateo Deihl was different, his family and friends say, in wonderful ways. A traumatized...
-
46
Quick Take
America has the highest per-capita gun ownership in the world — estimated at about 120 per 100 residents. Vinnie Hansen...
-
47
Quick Take
delfin bautista joined UC Santa Cruz this spring as director of the center that supports and advocates for the...
-
48
From Aptos to MLB via Auckland, Oakland A’s pitcher and Aptos High alum Jared Koenig on his new life
Quick Take
A yearslong journey through different levels of professional baseball finally paid off for Jared Koenig, who made his...
-
49
Quick Take
Bruno, a 100,000-year-old polar bear, is at the root of a breakthrough understanding. UC Santa Cruz scientists Beth...
-
50
Quick Take
Says local United Way head Keisha Browder: “We went to Natural Bridges and then to Henry Cowell. And it was like, ‘Wow.’...
-
51
Quick Take
Superintendent of Schools Faris Sabbah will get a second four-year term leading the Santa Cruz County Office of...
-
52
Quick Take
Santa Cruz County poet laureate David Sullivan talks about upcoming events — a show opening Friday at the downtown...
-
53
Quick Take
Our wealth of fresh organic produce enticed John Harry, the new chef of Venus Spirits Cocktails & Kitchen Beachside, to...
-
54
Quick Take
Fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz discusses the enduring popularity of fermented foods, their ubiquity in cultures...
-
55
Quick Take
Suddenly rising interest rates have thrown a new wrench into the plans of prospective home buyers. Can it get any worse?...
-
56
Quick Take
As the Our Downtown, Our Future group waits for approval for a voter measure for November to challenge the current new...
-
57
Quick Take
Starting this fall, UC Santa Cruz students can major in a new global and community health program, with about 100...
-
58
Quick Take
Climate change. Drought. More public needs of every kind. We asked new city of Santa Cruz fire chief Rob Oatey what...
-
59
Quick Take
After serving as interim chief following the resignation of former chief Andy Mills in October, Bernie Escalante moves...
-
60
Quick Take
John R. Lewis’ life and commitment to social justice, from the streets of Alabama to the halls of Congress, are...
-
61
Quick Take
Santa Cruz-based company Big Pete’s Treats has come a long way from Pete Feurtado’s kitchen on the Westside. Along with...
-
62
Quick Take
What is AI? And where is it taking us? We talk with entrepreneur and gadfly G. Craig Vachon, who leads a panel...
-
63
Quick Take
One year and three months into his first political foray, First District County Supervisor Manu Koenig has run into some...
-
64
Quick Take
As three Santa Cruz Starbucks stores lead much of the chain unionizing in California, local leader Joseph Thompson cites...
-
65
Quick Take
Recruitment of others led Gail Pellerin to the revelation that no one has better qualifications for the California State...
-
66
Quick Take
There are only a dozen surfing ecosystems on earth that have been designated as World Surfing Reserves, communities that...
-
67
Quick Take
When New York Times economics correspondent Conor Dougherty first moved back to San Francisco from the East Coast in...
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68
Zoom, social anxiety, new fun — and sleep: UCSC student body president talks reemerging student life
Quick Take
UC Santa Cruz Student Union Assembly President Shivika Sivakumar describes the “revival” on campus after two COVID-torn...
-
69
Quick Take
In the city of Santa Cruz, it’s been a rough, tumultuous stretch for all elected officials and staff trying to triage...
-
70
Quick Take
Celebrated writer Reyna Grande triumphantly returns to her alma mater with a new novel set during the Mexican-American...
-
71
Quick Take
Cryptozoology — and the study of cryptids — has never been a joke to Michael Rugg, proprietor of Felton’s Bigfoot...
-
72
Quick Take
2021 produced unprecedented hunger in Santa Cruz County. Among those recognized by Second Harvest Food Bank for helping...
-
73
Quick Take
Jewel Theatre Company artistic director Julie James says she has one goal: To produce one new play a year.
-
74
Quick Take
Starlight Elementary School students will have access to a state-of-the-art garden and kitchen center next fall after...
-
75
Quick Take
Acclaimed Santa Cruz cookbook author Andrea Nguyen gives her tips on using local veggies, cookbook how-tos and where to...
-
76
Quick Take
Three weeks ago, local developer Workbench broke ground on a 13-townhouse development in Soquel. Lookout talked to...
-
77
Quick Take
Superintendent of Schools Faris Sabbah says Santa Cruz County parents are bullying teachers, upsetting staff and filing...
-
78
Quick Take
“You know how when you find something that you love, it just feels like you don’t want to stop? That was how public...