On Jan. 9, I joined hundreds of fellow residents of Santa Cruz to express support for a cease-fire resolution. I made a respectful statement with a fairly unique perspective in the hopes of both ...

The beginning of the year is a natural time for reflection. Many of us look back at the year that’s passed and think about the year ahead. While you can make changes at any time, the New Year is the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. I am writing in response to the Jan. 21 letter, “L.D. 780 turns an unborn ...

I was never one for making New Year’s Resolutions, but several years ago, after 50 years of marriage, my best friend and wife characterized our relationship as a work in progress. Consequently, I ...

Bill Sherwonit submitted a letter to the editor critical of the Assembly’s action regarding the Israel-Hamas resolution calling for a cease-fire. He called it a “rejection” which sounds like a vote ...

The resolution has not yet been on a city council agenda, but it drew a crowd to the May 31 meeting with at least 50 people gathered to support it, and a group of around 15 there against it. Trans and ...

Unlike our Republican elected officials in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate who seemingly never perused the Senate’s bipartisan border bill designed to safeguard and update the nation ...

The action by the Santa Cruz City Council reinforces a stereotype young people and liberation fighters have long held about white-led peace movements. When peace is defined as being quiet, expressing ...