A recent booksigning at the Scotts Valley Motorcycle Center gives a glimpse into the lives of some dedicated female motorcycle riders.
Articles by Jessica Lussenhop
The Coast2Coast Rx Discount Prescription Card Program
The County’s newly introduced discount prescription card program offers some solace for the under and uninsured.
Rage Against the Wrapping Machine
Many viewers may have found themselves howling their agreement with Larry David during a recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. After two minutes of attacking a hermetically sealed plastic package with a butter knife, a screwdriver and a chef’s knife, he—and many of us—wanted to know: “Why would you manufacture a product you can’t open?”
Cat Powers
ON THE EVE of the first-ever National Cougar Convention, Richard Gosse, CEO of the San Rafael-based Single Professionals Society, was feeling a little tense. The event had sold out days prior, meaning an estimated 300 cougars—women 40 and older who prefer to date younger men—and cubs, the aforementioned younger men, were due to arrive in a mere 20 minutes. With slide show.
Survey: Young Latinos Optimistic But Still Struggling
The Pew Hispanic Center touts a new survey of more than 2,000 Hispanic youths as a window into the immigrant experience.
Santa Cruz Derby Girl’s Injury Sparks New Site
Things were going pretty well for Santa Cruz Derby Girl Evie Smith (a.k.a. Raven Von Kaos) when she skated onto the Roller Palladium floor for practice on Aug. 13. She was recently engaged, serving on the team’s board and playing better than ever, primarily as a pivot. Then, during a scrimmage, that tidy world order changed very suddenly. “It was a freak accident,” she says.
Santa Cruz by Statistics
This year the annual Santa Cruz County Community Assessment Project survey revealed a number of statistics that paint a bleak picture of life in recession-era Santa Cruz County. For example, one in 10 county residents has had to live temporarily with a family member or friend in the last year due to the cost of housing, we’ve had over 1,500 foreclosures, housing prices are dropping while rent is climbing, and the number of Latino adults with health insurance coverage tumbled from 78 percent in 2007 to 53 percent this past year.
Power to the People
The Sunday afternoon convention of Communities for Organized Relational Power in Action (COPA) at the Henry J. Mello Center in Watsonville had just a touch of mega-church fervor to it. There was cheering and waving of hands and twirling of noisemakers as the names of 18 religious institutions gathered in the auditorium were read off—St. John the Baptist Episcopal, Assumption Catholic Church, Temple Beth El. But the collection taken up from the roughly 800 attendees was telephone numbers and email addresses, and the higher power the crowd was appealing to was 17th District Congressman Sam Farr. Sitting at a long table marked with a banner that read “Prosperidad Compartida,” four COPA leaders hit Farr with questions pertaining to the organization’s four top issues—housing foreclosure, health care, immigration reform and public safety—as he sat alone behind a banner that read “Shared Prosperity.”
A Snapshot of a Penny University Meeting
Some snippets of conversation from the recent Penny University meeting at the Calvary Episcopal Church.
Alejo’s Election A Balm to Supporters
After disappointment one year ago, Alejo boosters finally got their day.
