Sunday Reads: America after Roe: West Coast unity and one day at a Planned Parenthood clinic
America after Roe: Is the West Coast ascendant as we wonder about the United in the U.S.A. this July Fourth?
The “West Coast offense” pact among the governors of California, Oregon and Washington offers up an immediate and meaningful sense of unity, Wallace Baine writes, and with red states engaged in an enormous and ultimately self-destructive act of “get off my property” purification, he’d much rather wave the flag of that new alliance than the Stars and Stripes. Read Wallace’s full Sunday column here.
Yes, the market is changing: A look at the data in Santa Cruz County
Yes, the market is changing: A look at the data in Santa Cruz County
One Friday in the new, post-Roe America: How losing abortion access changes us all
Soon, the Santa Cruz area’s Planned Parenthood’s offices will see 250 to 500 more patients per week, out-of-state refugees pushed west by Friday’s Supreme Court decision to reverse Roe v. Wade. But those are only the ones who have the money and connections to get to us. Jessica Dieseldorff, a nurse practitioner at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte in Watsonville, writes about our new reality, both for those coming to California and for those of us here. Read her Community Voices op-ed here.
➤ MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD: Here’s how to submit a letter to the editor and op-ed guidelines
- Box Office Manager at Santa Cruz Shakespeare
- Detention Nurse Specialist II at The County of Santa Cruz
- IT Business Systems Analyst at The County of Santa Cruz
- Horticulture Programs Technician at Cabrillo College
- Bus Operator (Driver) at Santa Cruz METRO
- Executive Director at Family Service Agency of the Central Coast
- Participant Service Representative at Community Health Trust of Pajaro Valley
- Finance Director at Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County
- Events & Food Drives Project Manager at Second Harvest Food Bank
- Clinic Psychologist at The County of Santa Cruz
- Public Health Nurse II at The County of Santa Cruz
- Senior Instructional Technician at Cabrillo College
- Director of Finance and Human Resources at Habitat for Humanity Monterey Bay
- Caregiver at Lifespan
- Communications Staff at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
- Participant Service Representative at Community Health Trust of Pajaro Valley
- Certified Personal Fitness Trainer at UC Santa Cruz
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Summer guide to food trucks and pop-ups
Forty food trucks and pop-ups now dot the Santa Cruz County landscape. Call it global food tourism — within 30 minutes. Here’s Lily Belli’s guide for where to find dumplings, Cubanos, yakitori, adobo, tapas and so much more.
➤ EATERS DIGEST: Yakitori and takoyaki on the Westside and the weirdest cookie (Lily Belli)
‘Don’t expect any oldies’: Bob Dylan comes to Santa Cruz
The figure is eerie: Dylan’s silhouette is almost as recognizable as his donkeylike singing voice, which is good because that’s all we’re getting, his silhouette standing against an orangeish glow on the curtain behind him. He’s avoiding any kind of spotlight like Dracula avoids the rising sun. Wallace Baine take us inside Thursday’s sold-out show at the Santa Cruz Civic.
➤ MORE FROM WALLACE: America’s millions of guns have lives of their own; Santa Cruz novelist Vinnie Hansen tracks the one involved in her own burglary
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In case you missed it ...
➤ ‘I’m the one who had to bury my son’: Scotts Valley mom fights for change in wake of bullied child’s suicide (Mark Conley)
➤ The Perg is for sale: Santa Cruz’s ‘oldest coffeehouse’ on the market for $3 million (Grace Stetson)
➤ Everyone in the pool: UCSC’s new Lionel Cantú Queer Resource Center director builds on a 50-year program (Hillary Ojeda)
➤ Ask Lookout: The West Cliff path near Natural Bridges remains a mess, for years it seems. What’s the holdup? (Max Chun)
