| FEATURES   By Dennis Taylor     In 2001, at the original Hartnell Street location of the Youth Arts Collective in Old Town ...

My advocacy for mental health began in the pre-pandemic years, when I was just 8 years old and facing a deep depression that left me unable to eat and visibly frail. I am now a junior at Everett ...

It’s not every day that an 11-year-old gets to play on stage with the globally renowned Los Tigres del Norte. Then again, Juan Carlos “Juanito” Aguilar Arrieta is not your regular 11-year-old. When he ...

Corbett O’Toole is 72 and lives in a van in the desert. Her life story embodies the strength of empowered disabled people who are agents of change, people who, like Corbett, have made history and ...

Twelve years ago while I was editor of The Monterey Herald, we largely stopped endorsing political candidates, local, state and national. I don’t remember exactly how it was explained at the time but ...

Editor’s Note: This November, Salinas voters will elect council members in four districts and the next mayor. With five seats at stake, the council’s make up could change dramatically. In an effort to ...

After months of lobbying by dozens of low-income residents, Salinas officials will consider a rent stabilization ordinance that advocates say is way overdue. Organizers led by Building Healthy ...

If you’ve ever sat around a fire, roasting marshmallows and telling stories, perhaps you can evoke a teeny bit of what Louise Miranda Ramirez wants to regain. There, under the stars that have seen the ...

In the last two months I’ve had a very close friend and a close neighbor take their own lives. Each took a very different path to their end. The friend (let’s call him Jurgen) I’ve known since forever ...

On a Friday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I asked my fifth-graders if they knew why we had the day off. One suggested, “To celebrate MLK’s birthday.” To be honest, for a 10-year-old that wasn’t ...

In Mercer County, West Virginia, Valeria Steele is proud of her home in Elk View Estates, a mobile home community she says used to be “such a nice place to live.” But since new owners took control ...

Hartnell College Faculty Association members organized a rally at the Main Campus on Wednesday, October 25 to protest against working conditions for part-time teachers and to ask administrators for ...