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Anderson Cooper is helping me understand grief — and podcasting

Anderson Cooper is helping me understand grief — and podcasting

By Claudia Sternbach

Quick Take

Lookout columnist Claudia Sternbach has fallen for Anderson Cooper. His podcast, anyway. On it, he unpacks his grief at...

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Anti-density stances are bad for Santa Cruz — so are ballot initiatives on building heights

Construction at Front and Laurel Streets in downtown Santa Cruz

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Anti-density stances are bad for Santa Cruz — so are ballot initiatives on building heights

By Richard McGahey

Quick Take

Economist Richard McGahey responds to Housing for People activist Susan Monheit’s Sept. 15 Lookout piece. The two have...

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Need an escape from bad news and politics? Try fiddlin’ in the forest

Claudia Sternbach's view during this month's Fiddle Extravaganza at DeLaveaga Park.

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Need an escape from bad news and politics? Try fiddlin’ in the forest

By Claudia Sternbach

Quick Take

Lookout columnist Claudia Sternbach is amazed at her friend Nora, who at 68 took up fiddling in 2019 and recently...

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Santa Cruz needs to stay a beach town: Let the people vote on high rises

Retired environmental scientist Susan Monheit at Pacific Avenue and Laurel Street in downtown Santa Cruz.

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Santa Cruz needs to stay a beach town: Let the people vote on high rises

By Susan Monheit

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Santa Cruz housing activist Susan Monheit believes Santa Cruz’s iconic status as a beloved beach town is endangered by...

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I had never been arrested for anything. But I got addicted to crack and woke up in jail in Santa Cruz at 50.

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I had never been arrested for anything. But I got addicted to crack and woke up in jail in Santa Cruz at 50.

By Justin Marc

Quick Take

Justin Marc, a second-generation Santa Cruz milkman, spent 19 months in jail in Santa Cruz for check fraud, fueled by an...
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Santa Cruz needs more housing density; misguided advocates are making our housing problems worse

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Santa Cruz needs more housing density; misguided advocates are making our housing problems worse

By Richard McGahey

Quick Take

Economist Richard McGahey, who has held federal, state and local leadership roles and is regarded as a national expert...
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Prison visits matter: I know because I spent decades making them to see my dad

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Prison visits matter: I know because I spent decades making them to see my dad

By Jeri Ross

Quick Take

Jeri Ross lost her father to incarceration when she was 10 and then, as an adult, spent decades wishing she could visit...
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California is its own sort of slave state — we need to enact farmworker rights now

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California is its own sort of slave state — we need to enact farmworker rights now

By Ann Aurelia López

Quick Take

Ann Lopez, the executive director of the Center for Farmworker Families, believes California farmworkers “make up a...
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Here’s some good news: The Santa Cruz bus system is aiming for zero carbon by 2036

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Here’s some good news: The Santa Cruz bus system is aiming for zero carbon by 2036

By Mike Rotkin

Quick Take

The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District is expecting $66.7 million dollars in state and federal grants and...
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The secret to aging in Santa Cruz: Wear that tiny bikini on the inside

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The secret to aging in Santa Cruz: Wear that tiny bikini on the inside

Quick Take

Lookout columnist Claudia Sternbach is sometimes surprised at the gray wave sweeping Santa Cruz. On her regular beach...

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Lookout columnist Claudia Sternbach has fallen for Anderson Cooper. His podcast, anyway. On it, he unpacks his grief at...

Economist Richard McGahey responds to Housing for People activist Susan Monheit’s Sept. 15 Lookout piece. The two have...

Lookout columnist Claudia Sternbach is amazed at her friend Nora, who at 68 took up fiddling in 2019 and recently...

Santa Cruz housing activist Susan Monheit believes Santa Cruz’s iconic status as a beloved beach town is endangered by...

Justin Marc, a second-generation Santa Cruz milkman, spent 19 months in jail in Santa Cruz for check fraud, fueled by an...

Economist Richard McGahey, who has held federal, state and local leadership roles and is regarded as a national expert...

Jeri Ross lost her father to incarceration when she was 10 and then, as an adult, spent decades wishing she could visit...

Ann Lopez, the executive director of the Center for Farmworker Families, believes California farmworkers “make up a...

The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District is expecting $66.7 million dollars in state and federal grants and...

Lookout columnist Claudia Sternbach is sometimes surprised at the gray wave sweeping Santa Cruz. On her regular beach...