All parents know that their little bundles of joy deposit big bundles of . . . undesirable material in their adorable little pants multiple times a day. Santa Cruz parent Karen Nelsen and her friends knew that firsthand.
Articles by Jessica Lussenhop
Appeals Board Axed Unanimously By Supes
Yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting had all the charm of divorce court when it arrived at its final piece of business for the day–determining whether or not to deep-six the Building, Accessibility and Fire Code Appeals Board.
Watsonville Prop. 8 Protest Small but Significant
While some 200 outraged protesters crowded around the Clock Tower in downtown Santa Cruz in reaction to Tuesday’s California Supreme Court ruling upholding the Prop. 8 constitutional ban on same-sex marriages, roughly 20 miles away in the Watsonville City Plaza, a small group of 20 people stood along Main Street yelling, “Honk!” at passing motorists and waving signs.
UCSC Students Vie for Top Biz Plan
Thirty-four teams have already been fired. Now it’s time to find out who gets hired this Friday on the season final-erhm, rather, at the final dinner and judging portion of the first annual UCSC Business Plan Competition.
Zipping Through the Redwoods
Falling out of a tree is not as easy as it sounds. Not if all that’s keeping you from a faceful of fiddleheads some 40 feet below is a thin cable. “This one is like the bunny slope,” our canopy tour guide, Steve Richards, assures us. “Enjoy the zip.” And then he tips off the edge of the wooden platform built treehouse-style around the trunk of a living redwood tree and whizzes across a 158-foot zipline, his shadow dancing along just behind him in the sunlit brush below.
Healthy Families: A Fraying Safety Net
Gov. Schwarzenegger warned us heads would roll if the May 19th budget package failed, and the Healthy Families program is looking like it may be one of the first.
Local Teens Talk About Porn
It is easier than ever to watch, create and share pornographic images and text, and as the first generation of web-savvy teenagers who have always had the instant gratification of DSL, who get cell phones as soon as they’re old enough to talk and who’ve never used air quotes with the word “blog,” their knowledge can easily be applied to creating their own porno paradise. Which leads to the question, can this be bad for them?
Building Code Warriors
It seemed like plenty of folks at Monday night’s monthly Building, Accessibility and Fire Code Appeals Board meeting were anticipating fireworks, including a sheriff’s deputy who said, very sweetly, that he was there to “keep an eye on things.”
Watsonville Beauty School Faces Closure
Teresa Rodriguez brushes an orangey-red polish onto a client’s fingernails and says, “I’ve waited years to go to cosmetology school, and then they opened one in Watsonville. It was a dream come true.
PETA Wants Santa Cruz Out of Skins
Meggan Anderson, a lithe, redheaded vegan, braved overcast skies and 60-degree breezes today outside O’Neill’s in downtown Santa Cruz, clothed only in pasties, bikini bottoms and a lot of green and gold body paint