A Fresno dairy producer that health authorities have been investigating amid an ongoing outbreak of E. coli is recalling some of its raw cheese products, after initially refusing to do so.
The Trump presidency and Santa Cruz County
News and opinion coverage of reaction in Santa Cruz County to the election of Donald Trump to a second term as president, plus news from around California via Lookout’s content partners.
Posted inOpinion from Community Voices
I’m a lifelong pacifist living in Santa Cruz; in 1980, I had an encounter with the Islamic Revolution
Local peace activist, former union leader and retired sociologist Paul Johnston took a journey into revolutionary Iran 46 years ago on a mission to de-escalate the Iran hostage crisis. The trip showcased how hope, power and politics collided at a pivotal moment in history. What began as a mission for peace exposed deeper truths about manipulation on both sides of the hostage crisis. Today, as the U.S. bombings continue, the consequences of those days still echo. Here, he offers a personal reckoning with war and memory and repeats the enduring call to seek peace.
Posted inBusiness & Technology
Big change for California small businesses: No more SBA loans for non-citizens
Non-U.S. citizens lost access beginning in March to Small Business Administration funding for small businesses, which provide the bulk of new jobs in California.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Santa Cruz chapter of Singing Resistance unites ‘No Kings’ rally in song
A new grassroots movement called the Singing Resistance emerged Saturday at Santa Cruz’s third “No Kings” rally. It’s part of a national trend, spawned from protests in Minneapolis.
Posted inOpinion from Community Voices
My great-grandparents were incarcerated during World War II: We can’t look away today
UC Santa Cruz student Skyla Tomine is terrified by the language she hears in the news, including the term “enemy alien.” It sounds chillingly familiar to Executive Order 9066, which forced her great-grandparents and other Japanese Americans into internment camps. The harm, she writes, is lasting. Many people she knows insist they would have stepped in to help her grandparents and others. It’s time, she writes, to prove it.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
La protesta “No Kings” de Watsonville sigue a la de Santa Cruz, ya que más de 15,000 personas se manifestaron en el condado en oposición a la administración de Trump
Unos 3,000 llenaron la plaza del centro de Watsonville el sábado por la tarde mientras las terceras manifestaciones “No Kings” contra la administración de Trump continuaban en el condado de Santa Cruz y en todo el país. El evento en Watsonville siguió a una marcha por Santa Cruz de aproximadamente 12,000 personas, según estimaciones de los organizadores.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Watsonville ‘No Kings’ protest follows Santa Cruz’s as 15,000-plus rally in county opposing Trump administration
About 3,000 protestors filled the environs of Watsonville’s downtown plaza Saturday afternoon, following a march through the streets of Santa Cruz that brought out about 12,000 Trump opponents in the third round of “No Kings” rallies.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
‘No Kings’ rallies draw crowds across U.S., in Europe; Springsteen headlines Minnesota demonstration
Streets filled across the United States on Saturday in the third “No Kings” protests.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
After immigration arrests, California lawmakers wonder: Are police telling the feds too much?
California legislators approved an audit of three of the state’s federally funded fusion centers, citing concerns about civil liberties and privacy.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
‘No Kings’ 3.0 rallies set for Santa Cruz and Watsonville this weekend; organizers expecting larger crowds
Political organizers in Santa Cruz and Watsonville are expecting large crowds this weekend for a follow-up to October’s nationwide “No Kings” protests against the Trump administration.