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Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Dogfight.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
General Pain.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Paranoid times.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Break-in.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Sprenger flows, Stone bows.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Homeless.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Your land is my land.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Catching up with Santa Cruz Mayor Emily Reilly.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Here's what the resolutions introduced by Sen. Joseph Biden and Sen. John Warner can do: nothing.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
A growing number of potential candidates are declaring their interest in the state Assembly seat that's now occupied by John Laird.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Nūz checks in on newly elected officeholders like first-time councilmember Lynn Robinson.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Vipassana Santa Cruz celebrates its new West Side location.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Let's Make a Deal.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
The Department of Housing and Community Development grants Santa Cruz County conditional certification for its Housing Element.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
30 acres and a duel.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Numerous races are still undecided across the state and the nation due to close elections, including two right here in Santa Cruz County.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Nūz suspected that the recent controversy over activities at the Seabright Cannery, posed by the Sentinel as a classic neighbor vs. business brouhaha, might actually be a subtler story. And, after talking with some of the principals involved, we found that indeed it is.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
For most, the first rains of winter offer an excuse to light up the fireplace, brew a cup of hot tea and relax. The 71 volunteers of First Flush, however, have no time for such luxuries.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Porter Poddy.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Sam Farr keeps hope alive.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
'Brazen' square dancers take to the Santa Cruz streets.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Arnold wusses on hemp.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
KPIG's Dallas Dobro moves to KZSC: The radio veteran will preach his roots music gospel to a younger audience.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
KPIG's Dallas Dobro moves to KZSC: The radio veteran will preach his roots music gospel to a younger audience.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Arts 2020: Thursday's special meeting of the General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC) promises to be both upbeat and energetic, with exhibitions of local art and live tunes from local musicians.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
A Movement Grows in Live Oak: The unincorporated town is tired of the being the forgotten stepchild of Santa Cruz county.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Parking Meter Task Force?: The SCPD's gang task force may be a myth, but our parking meters are safer than ever.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
What Gang Task Force?: Monterey and Salinas' anti-gang efforts grab state grants while SCPD's so-called 'gang task force' goes without.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
A Bridge to Farr: Congressman Sam Farr comes home; constituents rejoice.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
The Queerest of Them All: The Advocate rates UCSC in its Top 20 best campuses for LGBT students.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
NAFTA Performance Art: Nancy Nisbet is bringing her traveling Radio Frequency Enhanced Identification-enhanced barter truck to Santa Cruz.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Tough Gov: Elisa Shapiro, Nihilist Party candidate for governor, talks secession on the eve of his Santa Cruz campaign stop.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Peace Work: In response to a summer crime wave, citizens and activists march for peace in the neighborhood.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Nūz Goes to Prison: All the world's a stage and, for the moment at least, so is San Quentin.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Gallon Drunk: Venezuelan oil and online gas price monitors.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
The Sentinel and good old-fashioned flag burning.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
The city unveils new police surveillance rules.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
UCSC student journalists protest to reinstate their department; Lowell Darling unveils his tomb of the unborn soldier.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Chris Krohn's campaign mailers up the ante for last-minute hit pieces; Pride parade goes smoke-free.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Ocean Revolution aims to bring marine conservation to a younger generation; Santa Cruz's U.S.A. filling station goes biodiesel.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
County Supervisor and Superintendent of Schools candidates give their best arts spiels, pot initiative makes ballot, Santa Cruz loses Surf City USA battle.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
As if UCSC's proposed expansion weren't controversial enough, Nūz uncovers their environmental impact consultant's ties to the defense industry; county superintendent candidates race to raise alternative transportation awareness.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Is County Superintendent of Schools candidate Sandra Nichols a cheerleader for charter schools; business alliance to release minimum wage report; People power hosts rail and trail day.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
UCSC professor Barry Sinervo locates the gene for altruism in lizards; Fred Keeley, John Laird and bagels unite for economic prosperity; and the Guerilla Drive-In returns to nature.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Immigration prompts largest local protest since the war began, Santa Cruz City Manager Dick Wilson wants more hotels, and Jana Marcus on the art of gender transformation.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
David Cole barnstormed Santa Cruz this week with bad news about the war on terror.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
The 20th anniversary of the Watsonville Cannery Strike, Guerilla Drive-In moves downtown to protest a proposed ordinance restricting parking lot access.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
City Councilman and Living Wage advocate Tim Fitzmaurice tells why he's backing no one in the County Supervisor race; Second Harvest expands its food program for the poor.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News and Politics
Brown Beret member Ramiro Medrano accuses the Watsonville Police Department of singling him out during immigration bill protests.
Nūz: Transportation Funding Task Force
The TFTF seeks input on Santa Cruz County transportation issues through series of public workshops.
Nūz: Santa Cruz News Briefs
Councilmember Emily Reilly withdraws formal support of the local minimum wage initiative; SEIU's March 17 walkout.
News: Santa Cruz County Election News
District 3 County Supervisor Mardi Wormhoudt won't run for re-election; county workers stage one-day strike.
News: Santa Cruz County Debates Widening Highway 1
The Sensible Transportation Campaign accuses the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Committee of secretly widening Highway 1.
News: Santa Cruz Resource Center for Nonviolence Attacks Bush Response to 9/11
David Dionisi of Resource Center wants a better way to fight terrorism.
Santa Cruz County News
UC-Santa Cruz custodians express their true feelings on Valentine's Day.
Santa Cruz News
Local artists react to Mohammed cartoon controversy.
Santa Cruz News
AfterDowningStreet.org co-founder David Swanson advocates impeachment.
Santa Cruz News
Somebody's Gotta Keep an Eye on Those Kids.
Santa Cruz County News
Unanswered Questions; Loud Mouth Regrets; Hooray for MLK.
Santa Cruz County News
Credible Threats; Incredulous Requests; About Last Night 3.
Santa Cruz County News
Santa Cruz Über Alles; Support the Troops; Campus Matters; Cronyism.
Santa Cruz News
Tree Reprieve!; Spies Like Us; Boxing Barbara.
Santa Cruz County News
Rotkin & Nüz vs. 2005; Food Drive Push.
Santa Clara County News
About Last Night Again; Community TV Goes Digital; Match This.
Santa Cruz News
The SCAP Shuffle; No Clemency; Snow Night Smackdown.
Santa Cruz News
Incidental Noise; Survey Says; Weariful of Celibate Poorness.
Santa Cruz News
The Mayor's Step-Great-Grandmother; Radio Shout Out; World AIDS Day.
Santa Cruz News
A Problem of Hard-wiring; Kuehl Kat; Second Harvest Food Bank Takes Over.
Nūz
Guerrilla Rail Trail Mystery; Notes From the Armchair; You Got Served; Creepy Crime; Crow Pie.
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Nüz Goes to Washington; I Am Sam; We Are the Champions; Workers of the World.
Santa Cruz News
Ready to Roll; Better Late Than Never?; Proverbial You; 1,174 Days and Counting.
Santa Cruz News
Dragon Slayers?; Safety Dance; Day of the Dead.
Santa Cruz News
Venetian Water Carnival Car Cultureival; And the Winner Is ...; Access Granted; Planetary Mary.
Santa Cruz News
Driver Supporters Strike Back; Board Asleep At the Wheel; Bikes to the Rescue.
Santa Cruz News
Angry and Gay; Diversity's New Digs; Spit and Polish.
Santa Cruz News
Confessions of a Dangerous Mime Troupe; Rocket Science; Full Disclosure.
Santa Cruz News
T Is for Treason; Access by Air; Cheering for Peace; About Last Night.
Santa Cruz News
Watsonville Fish Kill; Santa Cruz Cow Roast.
Santa Cruz News
HAVA Question?; Does This Mean the iPod Contest Could Be Rigged?; The Big Failsafe.
Santa Cruz News
Cat Scratch Fever; Operation Enduring Drugdom; WAMMFEST III.
Santa Cruz News
Metro Santa Cruz Endorses Measure X; For the Turnstiles; First in Print Media Division.
Santa Cruz News
Secrets of Asymmetric War; Living Herstory; Art Patriarch; Universal Design Conference; Waxing Expansive.
Santa Cruz News
Chair View; Teenage Rampage; Arnie Watch; Forest Talk.
Santa Cruz News
Sue the World; Agenda Hijinks; Dispense With the Clones.
Santa Cruz News
Pegged for Cuts; Stuntman; Trans-Triangulation; Down on Downing Street; Vietnam Flashback.
Santa Cruz News
X Factor; Turn to the Other Left; The Other Metro; Nurses Victorious.
Santa Cruz News
DIY July 4; Supreme Jitters; WAMM Fest; Ready, Set, Go.
Santa Cruz News
Putting a Face to the Name: If you received a tax rebate from the state in the past two years, state Controller Steve Westly was the one who signed your check.
Santa Cruz News
Nurse Power; Dough Rolling; Stoning W.
Santa Cruz News
WAMM On.
Santa Cruz News
Bullets Over The Tannery; Name-Dropping; KUSP Theft; Henfling's Returns?; Sustainability And Dads.
Santa Cruz News
La Bahia Redux; Felton's Civil War.
Santa Cruz News
Santa Cruz: The Verb; Funneling the Feedback; Pride Rolls On.
Santa Cruz News
Felton Cliffhanger; The Longest Line; And the Winners Are ...; Palestine Awareness Week; Memorial Day Salutes; Super-Secret Staircase Tour.
Santa Cruz News
Don't Drink The Water; Stagnant Water; Election Sleuthing; Architecture Tour; Bike Week Reminder.
Santa Cruz News
Tanning the Tannery; Preaching to the Choir; Barn Obit; KZSC Laughs; Craft-tastic.
Santa Cruz News
Library Wars; SCCARRED Children; Super Cooper.
Santa Cruz News
A Tale of Two Protests; Reel Work; Purple Heart.
Santa Cruz News
Putting Out Fires; Tideland Legalese; Self-Made Men; The Future Is Now.
Santa Cruz News
Total Recall; The Dough Slinger; Thanks, Bill Murray!; Alumni Get a CLUE.
Santa Cruz News
Return of Wonder Wormhoudt; Zoned Out; Who's Your Unembedded Baghdaddy?; SCFF Kickoff.
Santa Cruz News
Development Thumbs Up; Barging Through The Deficit; Seriously in Salinas.
Santa Cruz News
Fish Tale Anniversary; What Can Brown Do For You?; Poop If You Love Peace; Collection Call; Peak Oil.
Santa Cruz News
Marine Doppelganger; A Sense of Where You Are.
Santa Cruz News
Rumble on the Street; Hanoi Jane; Public Displays of Immorality; Planning Made Sexy.
Santa Cruz News
Yellow Brick Road to Pension Reform.
Santa Cruz News
Ex-Mayor Smack-down.
Santa Cruz News
Is UCSC even aware that February is Black History Month?
Santa Cruz News
Newly elected Sen. Joe Simitian moves into Bruce McPherson's old office.
Santa Cruz News
Local photographer Frans Lanting's 15th annual fundraising benefit show goes 'Extreme.'
Santa Cruz News
Santa Cruz residents speak out on the conference center proposal.
Santa Cruz News
A new radio documentary looks at Santa Cruz County's housing crisis.
Santa Cruz News
Blue is the new orange, reform is the new fraud and teachers are the new special interests.
Santa Cruz News
Tsunami or Not Tsunami?
Santa Cruz News
Gov. Schwarzenegger receives an extra gift this Christmas: a lawsuit filed by the California Nurses' Association.
On The Nose
When Santa Cruz News gets a hold of a particularly juicy story, it won't let go. As the year draws to a close, we take a look back at four important stories that Santa Cruz News tracked through 2004.
Santa Cruz News
Did former 'Merc' reporter Gary Webb kill himself? And will the mainstream learn anything from his death?
Santa Cruz News
November was smelling a lot like Christmas in downtown Santa Cruz--at least until the spirit got dampened by a string of car towings.
Santa Cruz News
The Umbrella Man gives new meaning to "walking the walk" on Pacific Avenue.
Santa Cruz News
First Night, First Bite.
Santa Cruz News
Not even Santa Cruz is safe from anti-abortion rhetoric.
Santa Cruz News
Count Santa Cruz News as a new fan of the local public access show 'Fair & Balanced.'
Santa Cruz News
The mystery surrounding a bullet lodged in an old Del Mar Theatre chandelier is finally solved.
Santa Cruz News
Looks like that gopher in 'Caddyshack' has found a new adversary: the Wo/Men's Alliance of Medical Marijuana garden.
Santa Cruz News
Local residents like filmmaker Eric Thierman get the word out to vote.
Santa Cruz News
The Feds raid Free Radio Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz News
Jewelry thieves thwarted the UNICEF store's effort to help African orphans.
Santa Cruz News
The case of the missing 'Scream' print is closed.
Santa Cruz News
Are people who run for Santa Cruz City Council masochists?
Santa Cruz News
After thieves make off with Munch's 'The Scream,' Santa Cruz pranksters do the same with the Blue Lagoon's copy of 'The Scream.'
Santa Cruz News
As Santa Cruz prepares for the WAMMFest, medical marijuana activists replant their decimated-by-the-DEA garden.
Santa Cruz News
Even in anti-Bush Santa Cruz, the Committee to Defeat Bush continues its efforts to get voters to give Bush the boot.
Santa Cruz News
Sam Farr dropped by Metro Santa Cruz to report from the Eastern front.
Santa Cruz News
Apparently, Schwarzenegger now thinks he's Robert Duvall in that awful 'Scarlet Letter' movie because he wants to put markers on undocumented immigrant drivers.
Santa Cruz News
The question of whether a sea wall will be built at the base of Capitola's cliffs will be addressed at the planning commission meeting Aug. 5.
Santa Cruz News
The picketing at Clearwater Court has spurred a lawsuit for business interruption costs.
Santa Cruz News
Kathy Eder's anti-Bush book is outselling Clinton's autobiography in Campbell.
Santa Cruz News
Shakespeare Santa Cruz media luncheons have not been the same without Danny Scheie, who was in rare form in his return last week.
Santa Cruz News
Changing tables could be coming to men's and women's restrooms on the wharf and soon.
Santa Cruz News
Lines stretched down Pacific Avenue this weekend for sold-out showings of 'Fahrenheit 9/11' at the Del Mar.
Santa Cruz News
City Councilmember Emily Reilly says she will definitely run for re-election in November.
Santa Cruz News
Some Mission Hill parents have a blade to pick with a million-dollar plan to replace grass with synthetic turf.
Santa Cruz News
Wondering how Felton's water system ended up in the hands of a foreign multinational?
Santa Cruz News
The openly gay Car Culture. Mel White returns to Santa Cruz to serve as Grand Marshal of the Pride Parade.
Santa Cruz News
Drilling in a wildlife refuge might sound crazy, but it apparently sounded perfectly pretzel-logical to Dubya.
Santa Cruz News
The Rotary Club cracks down on people who post commercial signs on utility poles; Barbara Boxer demands an investigation into the prison abuse scandal.
Santa Cruz News
Cliff Skolnick wants to bring free Internet power to the people of Santa Cruz and beyond.
Santa Cruz News
A plan to take over the Natural Bridges campus runs into roadblocks.
Santa Cruz News
Do you feel a draft coming?
Santa Cruz News
Not even a bomb threat could deter fans from seeing 'Democracy Now!' host Amy Goodman speak at the Rio.
Santa Cruz News
Sales of products by former Santa Cruzan Tom Bihn skyrocket for unexpected reasons.
Santa Cruz News
Our development news is real!
Santa Cruz News
Gore vs. Nader: the real story.
Santa Cruz News
Longtime KUSP station manager and local arts fixture Peter Troxell passed away.
Santa Cruz News
A giant fish sculpture is one of the strangest things seen floating in the San Lorenzo River (if you don't count the entire backyard that came floating down that one El Niño year).
Santa Cruz News
When atheists attack.
Santa Cruz News
The Santa Cruz Surfing Club gets some publicity--thanks to Paris Hilton (it has nothing to do with sex tapes, by the way).
Santa Cruz News
Attorney General Bill Lockyer says Gov. Schwarzenegger 'plays Conan the Barbarian for the right wing' on the issue of gay marriages.
Santa Cruz News
The debate over same-sex marriages.
Santa Cruz News
50 picketers formed a conga line outside the Safeway at Mission Street.
Santa Cruz News
Sean Van Sommeran's Pelagic Shark Research Foundation isn't feeling too chummy toward UCSC right now.
Santa Cruz News
Rep. U.S. Sam Farr responds to Bush's State of the Union address.
Santa Cruz News
Human rights activist and comedic provocateur Alan Clements feels hopeful about the possibility of regime change and urges us to get off the meditation cushion. Right. Now.
Santa Cruz News
Santa Cruz police come under fire for not immediately warning the public about an assailant suspected of attempted rape.
Santa Cruz News
The Cowardly Lion gets political at First Night Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz News of the Weird
Looking back at a truly strange year in local news.
Santa Cruz News
The owners of the Sand Hill Bluff property say they're in no rush to sell the Trust For Public Land. They might want to get the abandoned car towed before the next appraisal.
Santa Cruz News
Santa Cruz protests the suspension of SB 60, which would have allowed undocumented immigrants to drive legally.
Santa Cruz News
Plans for ADUs, or Accessory Dwelling Units, could bode well for Cruzer renters looking for affordable housing.
Santa Cruz News
Local women protest Sutter Maternity's proposal to discontinue a procedure known as VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean).
Santa Cruz News
A Boulder Creek forensic archaeologist will travel to Northern Iraq to help Kurds ID bodies; Santa Cruz libraries director Anne M. Turner wins Bad-Ass Loudmouth award.
Santa Cruz News
District 2 Supervisor Ellen Pirie seems neutral on the coastal trolley issue, but the plan may have some powerful opponents.
Santa Cruz News
Dennis "The Menace" Kucinich's platform represents death to inequality and injustice.
Santa Cruz News
Another Halloween in Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz News
I don't think you're ready for this Jellybean.
Santa Cruz News
Michael Moore visits Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz News
Both a robbery and a visit from a food inspector surprise Mayor Reilly and her bakery; anti-Patriot Act legislation gets stalled.
Santa Cruz News
A UCSC professor's weird connection to the SUV attacks; the Car Culture. Jesse Jackson's UCSC visit.
Santa Cruz News
The recall election spawns Lefties for Arnie and the Schwarzenegger tat-wearing Apathetics for Arnie.
Santa Cruz News
De Anza Mobile Estates seniors fight for rent control; WTO negotiations end in a stalemate; Santa Cruz says no to Prop. 54.
Santa Cruz News
Santa Cruz vs. the Bush Administration; recall delay.
Santa Cruz News
"Save the Walkway;' the upcoming WAMMfest; Jeffrey Vance's congressional campaign.
Santa Cruz News
Matriot Acts.
Santa Cruz News
Smoke Out.
Santa Cruz News
Bad-Ass Loudmouth.
Santa Cruz News
Waxing Political.
Santa Cruz News
Dark Horses.
Santa Cruz News
Milk Is for Babies.
Santa Cruz News
Outa Sync.
Santa Cruz News
When Protests Go Weird.
Santa Cruz News
Peachy.
Santa Cruz News
When Lemons Fly.
Santa Cruz News
Frat Fry.
Santa Cruz News
Clown, Interrupted.
Santa Cruz News
Boy, (Are We) Wonder(ing)?
Santa Cruz News
Gray Hair Splitting.
Santa Cruz News
Flawed Formula.
Santa Cruz News
Jim Crow Laws Rising...
Santa Cruz News
Planet X Redux.
Santa Cruz News
Mama Tried.
Santa Cruz News
Unlucky 13.
Santa Cruz News
Vanilla Skies.
Santa Cruz News
Urbani Legend.
Santa Cruz News
Bush Bucks.
Santa Cruz News
April is Suppress Dissent Month.
Santa Cruz News
Déjà Bush.
Santa Cruz News
The Curse of the 52 Pickup.
Santa Cruz News
Signs o' the Times.
Santa Cruz News
Tim Fitzmaurice: Hell's Angel.
Santa Cruz News
Santa Cruz residents object to a cell phone tower disguised as a tree.
Santa Cruz News
Duct tape makes a comeback at the peace rallies; Sam Farr gets banned from speaking at rally.
Santa Cruz News
The battle over Felton's water supply; why Paul Elerick vacated the Santa Cruz County Democratic Central Committee chair.
Santa Cruz News
Poets declare war against war; the Citizen Police Review Board is cuffed; fire at the Chavez Co-Op.
Santa Cruz News
Anti-Dubya rallies; KUSP revamps its programming.
Santa Cruz News
Photographer Takashi Morizumi's new book shows the Gulf War's radioactive effects on Iraqi children.
Santa Cruz News
"Bush is waging a straightforward war on women," says City Councilmember Cynthia Mathews.
Santa Cruz News
When Drugs Go Bad; Funny Bones.
By The Numbers
Santa Cruz News does the math for 2002.
Santa Cruz News
Hazardous Materials?
Santa Cruz News
Santa Cruz News of the Weird.
Santa Cruz News
Seacliff State Beach is a great place for walking along the sand and taking in the waves--unless you are a cat.
Santa Cruz News
Residents bid farewell to two councilmembers--and say hello to three familiar faces.
Santa Cruz News
Police investigate mysterious white powder at Metro Santa Cruz office.
Santa Cruz News
County supervisor candidates experience instant karma.
Santa Cruz News
Let the Election Fallout Begin!
Santa Cruz News
Halloween gets scary for 'Curse of Santa Cruz' screenplay writer Stephanie Michel.
Santa Cruz News
Candidates remember Halloweens past.
