Design, Bitches transformed a garage into a stunning ADU in Atwater Village. It is one of more than a dozen designs through the city’s ADU program.
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Pivot’s latest pivot: Uniquely Santa Cruz fashion event lands at the Tannery
Pivot: The Art of Fashion has found homes at the Rio, the Wrigley Building and, last year, on a screen, and this year the high-profile Santa Cruz fashion show and performance-art showcase moves outdoors at the Tannery and adds other live elements.
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Hearts full for an empty homes tax: Santa Cruz set to follow path of other ‘second home’ destinations
In order to put more money toward affordable housing solutions, advocates want to follow steps taken by voters in Oakland and Vancouver by taxing homeowners who do not live in their homes for at minimum 120 days per year.
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What will it take to get out of the pandemic? California still has a long way to go
While not as potent as earlier in the year, COVID-19’s presence looms large, especially heading into the colder fall and winter months. Improved vaccination rates among adolescents, teenagers and younger adults would be a good start.
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Morning Lookout: Twin affordable housing projects with opposite reactions; Chief Mills announces departure
As of September 2021, only 73 advisors have earned the designation in the State of California. Sam Solgan of Bay Federal…
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Newsom’s vetoes: Why did the governor block California bills?
Gov. Newsom had his reasons for blocking California bills passed by the Legislature: cost, duplication and some politics. Overall, he signed 770 bills into law and vetoed 66, or about 8%.
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Health industry wields power in California’s high-stakes battle to lower health care costs
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to regulate out-of-control health care spending in California. The effort is being shaped by the very health industry players that would be regulated.
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Are immigrants getting left out of California’s rent relief?
Non-English speaking immigrants face some of the biggest hurdles to receiving California rent relief. Advocates say informal leases, lack of technology access and language barriers are getting in the way.
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Cannabis for kids: Santa Cruz residents have chance to make children’s fund permanent in Nov. 2 election
Measure A would nearly double the amount flowing from the city’s cannabis business tax to the fund dedicated to childhood development programs, and would insulate it from possible future elimination in a city council vote by writing it into the city charter.
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Is downtown’s first hotel in nearly a century Cruz’n into town? What we know about the hot-button project
There are steps left to take if supporters of the for-now-called Cruz Hotel project are to get past loud opposition and become part of the overhaul of lower Pacific Avenue and the riverfront zone. It is one of six projects slated to be at least six stories in a downtown with few buildings that tall.
