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Articles by Jessica Lussenhop
UCSC Vets Wonder: Is New GI Bill Too Good To Be True?
Michael Hart is a 30-year-old U.S. Coast Guard veteran with eight-and-a-half-years of active duty under his belt, during which he served on a 210-foot security cutter based in Miami Beach doing search-and-rescues and drug interception in the Caribbean. Once a month, he returns to the naval base in Alameda to run drills with the reserves. But come today, the first day of class at UCSC, he’s just another sophomore.
City of Watsonville Wins War of the Strawberry Festivals
After a drama-filled feud with its fired promoter, the Watsonville Strawberry Festival turns a profit.
Street Signs: Dress Your Goats in Corduroy and Denim
“Best Dressed Goat” contest brings the 2009 Santa Cruz County Fair to a close.
VIDEO: Santa Cruz AIDS Project Drop-In Center shuttered
An inside look at the center, filmed just prior to the final closure on September 15.
Coastal Cleanup Swims Upstream
As Coastal Cleanup Day gears up for its 25th anniversary of beachcombing for cigarette butts and bottles, Save Our Shores marine debris program coordinator Emily Glanville says there’s good news and there’s bad news. “Our beaches are looking pretty good these days,” she says. “We’re seeing less trash being left on the beach. Our data from the summer of 2008 showed quite a bit more.”
Breakdown: Wildfire Investigation
Everyone always talks about wildfire investigations, but nobody does anything about it.
Survey Says: Californians Want Change
The newest survey from the Public Policy Institute of California shows a desire for change, but not a clear path to it.
Santa Cruz Drop-In Center to Close
After ten years, Santa Cruz AIDS Project is forced to shutter its Front Street drop-in center.
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place for Freelancers
You’d think the easiest way to find out about the effectiveness of “coworking”—the phenomenon whereby work-at-homers, freelancers and other indie business strangers elect to set up shop in a building and find out what happens—is to ask the coworkers (not to be confused with the tradition-bound drones known as “co-workers”) themselves. Trouble is, they’re all too busy working.