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Lookout Update: Time names UCSC professor Karen Miga one of its 100 most influential people of 2022
Time magazine named UC Santa Cruz biomolecular engineering assistant professor Karen Miga one of its 100 most influential people of 2022. Miga co-led a team of scientists to complete the first gapless sequence of the human genome, building on the work of scientists who published the first draft of the genome in 2000. Lookout profiled her work in April.
Posted inFood & Drink
Lily Belli on Food: Andrea Nguyen’s local picks, Farm Discovery fundraiser, what does ‘foodie’ mean to you?
Editor’s note: Didn’t see Lily Belli on Food in your inbox? Our email provider is experiencing an outage that may prevent our newsletters from reaching you. You can find all of our email newsletters on our website every day by searching their names. Heads up, foodies: I’m now sending alerts every time I publish a […]
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Morning Lookout: ‘Good trouble’ on affordable housing; Watsonville hospital deadline looms
Good morning, Santa Cruz County! It’s Tuesday, May 24, and a sunny day is ahead — and it will be a sweltering one the farther inland you go, with highs in just the 70s near the coast but approaching 100 in our mountain communities. As part of Lookout’s spring membership drive, this week we’re highlighting […]
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Money wars: Special interests spend big in California primary
Independent expenditure committees funded by special interest groups are spending millions of dollars to make their picks in the California primary. In some races, they are clearly supporting or opposing candidates. In others, the strategy is more complicated.
Posted inOpinion from Community Voices
I believed I was doing enough to address our housing affordability challenges. I wasn’t.
Santa Cruz needs to break old habits when it comes to affordable housing. That means local elected officials have to approve projects — even ones their constituents oppose, writes Don Lane, former Santa Cruz mayor and an affordable housing advocate. Lane says he has revised his own thinking on affordable housing and aims to push others to do the same. The consequences of not building, he says, are catastrophic for our community.
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LOOKOUT PM: Deadly Texas shooting, recs from a food expert, and the future of Watsonville Community Hospital
Editor’s note: Didn’t see Lookout PM in your inbox? Our email provider is experiencing an outage that may prevent our newsletters from reaching you. You can find all of our email newsletters on our website every day by searching their names. Good evening, all, If you had to fight off a case of the Mondays […]
Posted inHealth & Wellness
$16 million in 90 days: What’s needed to close public purchase of Watsonville Community Hospital
Watsonville Community Hospital — which declared bankruptcy in December — is at risk of closure. To save the hospital, a local nonprofit is scrambling to raise money to purchase it. With more than $25 million raised so far and a commitment of $20 million from the state, the Pajaro Valley Healthcare District Project is making a wide appeal to help bring in the final $16 million needed by Aug. 31.
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15 dead, including 14 children, in Texas school shooting
More than a dozen students and a teacher were killed Tuesday in a shooting at a Texas elementary school, authorities say.
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California will test digital driver’s licenses. Should you worry about your personal info?
States are slowly rolling out digital driver’s licenses, aiming to give residents more control over their identifying information. California is heading that way too.