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Morning Lookout: Pajaro return, Namaste culinary tour, weekend recs & Lookout’s news quiz
Morning Lookout: Watsonville hospital’s next steps, Pajaro climate injustice and Jewel Theatre closing
Morning Lookout: Demolishing Seacliff pier and Watsonville hospital CEO’s sudden departure
Morning Lookout: High winds, more rain; UC buying UCSC chancellor’s residence; affordable housing fail
Morning Lookout: Pajaro’s uncertain recovery, building an IT biz, changing approach to unhoused
Morning Lookout: Student housing gets go-ahead, community climate forum and Pajaro voices
Morning Lookout: Downtown library OK, Newsom visit, Laird Q&A and public defender’s role
Morning Lookout: Uncertainty and injustice in Pajaro, farm-to-table guide and salmon fishing ban
Civic Life
Newsom rolls back California drought restrictions after remarkably wet winter
Worry and suspicion reign as once-dry Tulare Lake drowns California farmland
Health & Wellness
End of the rainbow? California bill would ban sales of Skittles, other ‘toxic’ snacks
Why is this California Trader Joe’s pushing for a union? A rat infestation is only part of the problem
Health
Watsonville
Watsonville hospital board appoints interim CEO; search for new leader could take nine months
K-12 Education
California bill would require all public high schools to hand out free condoms
Watsonville Community Hospital CEO resigns; board to announce next steps Wednesday
COVID Today
COVID Dashboard: Santa Cruz County drops to ‘moderate’ transmission tier
Environment
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the editor: More government ‘push and pull’ needed to make climate-friendly choices easier and cheaper
Opinion from Community Voices
Climate injustice is happening in Pajaro: It’s our moral obligation to fix the system
Death toll rises to 5 as wild California storm passes, leaving heightened flood risk
Wild storm hits California: The Fujiwhara effect, a bomb cyclone, even a landspout, tornado warnings
City Life
Food & Drink
Sampling Namaste’s Indian cuisine with a Bengali connoisseur
Coast Life
Brew Cruz rides again with Coffis Brothers collab
Get hip with the latest volume of Santa Cruz counterculture history
‘Gay Guerilla,’ algorithm meets rave and deep listening at Fall Creek as Indexical springs forward