Last week Haiping Su, a UC-Santa Cruz earth sciences researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, filed a federal lawsuit against the FBI and NASA Ames for labeling him a “security threat” and destroying his career.
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Capitola Identifies Future Affordable Housing Sites
Capitola City Council broke the stalemate over property rezoning to meet a state requirement Thursday night with a three to two vote in favor of confining action to two site, including a contentious location on Park Avenue.
Olallieland Ride
Berry picking without poison ivy? Definitely a first for me. Driving down the dusty, winding roads past fields of berries to Watsonville’s Gizdich Ranch, my mouth waters and my fingers twitch—whether in anticipation of picking or memories of scratching, I’m not sure. Once there, I eavesdrop for instructions. “Pick the darkest and the shiniest ones you see,” a grandmother tells her squealing grandson. For my first olallieberry-picking excursion, I listen, excluding the light saber sound effects.
Place And Time: Photographs by Pete Saporito
A long gravel driveway shaded by overhanging trees recalls the long, humid summers of Savannah, where the photograph was taken. In an aged-looking, high-contrast photo, dried roses wilt in their vase, as if exhausted. Nearby, a heavily made-up San Francisco woman leaps out at the viewer from a hazy, glossy closeup.
Local Cop Shops Sweating Bullets Over Crime Labs
“I can tell just by looking at this that this is cocaine,” says senior criminalist Meghan Kinney. She’s pointing to a computer readout of numbered lines, each corresponding to different chemicals found in a sample that’s just gone through the gas chromatography-mass spectrometer at the Freedom Crime Laboratory in Watsonville.
In Defense of Slow Reading
Has the relentless cacophony of Google culture made us dumb? An Internet junkie picks up a book and finds out.
Watsonville Passes Final Budget, With One Surprise
At the final city council meeting on Watsonville’s budget Tuesday night, city staff managed to pull off a small miracle, to the surprise and delight of many of the assembled nonprofits.
Breakdown: State Park Access Pass
How the proposed $15 State Park Access Pass, scheduled for a vote today as part of California Democrats’ answer to Gov. Schwarzenegger’s budget, would work.
Santa Cruz May Forfeit Once-Profitable Golf Course
You could play dozens of public golf courses in America and be hard pressed to find one better maintained than Santa Cruz’s city-owned De Laveaga Golf Course. With 6,010 yards of expertly manicured fairways and greens you could eat eggs off of, the course is the handiwork of a top-notch, well-paid group of unionized golf course professionals.
We Can Save Our Parks As Part of Budget Solution
District 27 Assemblymember Bill Monning makes the case for the $15 State Parks Access Pass fee, which would fully fund the state parks system. “Although deep cuts are necessary to balance the budget, how we make those cuts and how we advance alternatives will reflect our values as a state,” he writes.
