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- Jackie Cruz left gang life behind and now helps others avoid her mistakes
- By Zachary Stahl posted July 03, 2008 12:00 AM
- Her transformation alone gives hope to teens trying to escape the trappings of gangs and poverty. Jackie Cruz, a daughter of farm workers, joined a Salinas gang at age 10.... read on»
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- MIIS president measures success at her work by her personal yardstick.
- By Stuart Thornton posted July 03, 2008 12:00 AM
- In her office at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, MIIS president Dr. Clara Yu relates a story about Mahatma Gandhi. She says that the east Indian spiritual and political... read on»
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- Jack Ellwanger picks his battles and gets things done.
- By Mark C. Anderson posted July 03, 2008 12:00 AM
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They don’t appear on the front page: a nerdy guy who sends endless e-mails, an ex-gangster, a pair of Seaside seniors, a veteran academic, an immigrant couple from Africa.... read on» - Comments: 0
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- Elana Anderson and Walter Jones have always been driven to help the hungry
- By By Tina May posted July 03, 2008 12:00 AM
- Forget second nature. To Walter Jones and Elana Anderson, sharing what you’ve got with those who have less is their first nature. Neither has ever known any differently. ... read on»
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- Two Seaside nurses help save lives in Nigeria.
- By Kera Abraham posted July 03, 2008 12:00 AM
- Richard Anyanwu’s smile is radiant, even as he describes the water damage inflicted on his home by a broken pipe while he was out of town. The couches are still... read on»
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- The Homemade Jamz Blues Band’s skills belie their youth.
- By Stuart Thornton posted June 26, 2008 12:00 AM
- Listening to songs from The Homemade Jamz Blues Band’s debut CD Pay Me No Mind, certain images come into focus. With numbers like “Penny Waiting on a Change” sung in... read on»
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- Master-mentor relationships help keep an American music form pure.
- By Stuart Thornton posted June 26, 2008 12:00 AM
- No American music has a richer mythology than the blues. There’s the gripping lore surrounding blues music’s first superstar, Robert Johnson, who allegedly sold his soul to the devil at... read on»
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- Vocalist Bettye LaVette persisted until she got the career breaks she deserved.
- By Stuart Thornton posted June 26, 2008 12:00 AM
- After recording what was supposed to be her first album and long-awaited breakthrough in the music industry, vocalist Bettye LaVette got a phone call. The record executive on the other... read on»
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- Taj Mahal took his own path to musical success.
- By Stuart Thornton posted June 26, 2008 12:00 AM
- Taj Mahal got valuable musical advice from blues elders, including Lightnin’ Hopkins, when he first embarked on his unconventional path as a musician. ... read on»
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- One of the best guitarists in blues started in classical music.
- By Stuart Thornton posted June 26, 2008 12:00 AM
- The blues hit young Joe Bonamassa like a lightning bolt. At the time, Bonamassa was reciting classical music pieces verbatim on guitar. But when at 8 years old the guitarist... read on»
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- E. coli outbreaks in fresh produce coincide with the push for volume, variety and year-round supplies.
- By Paul Roberts posted June 19, 2008 12:00 AM
- Just after 9 on a frigid January morning in 2007, nearly six months after the disastrous E. coli outbreaks in bagged spinach, some 200 vegetable farmers and shippers, tailed by... read on»
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- Little Trips, Little Towns: South Coast Big Sur
- By Stuart Thornton posted June 12, 2008 12:00 AM
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The South Coast town of Gorda has a dubious distinction: ABC’s “Nightline” did a feature this past spring that revealed the community had the highest gas prices in the entire... read on» - Comments: 0
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- Little Trips, Little Towns: Fort Hunter Liggett
- By Mark C. Anderson posted June 12, 2008 12:00 AM
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From time to time, major military exercises at the increasingly active base close off certain roads and currently, the Indians Fire has neccessitated the closure of Del Venturi Road. If... read on» - Comments: 0
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- Little Trips, Little Towns: Moss Landing
- By Jessica Lyons posted June 12, 2008 12:00 AM
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The South Coast of Big Sur might have more hawks than humans. Moss Landing has roughly the same population as a small high school class. And soldiers aside, Fort Hunter... read on» - Comments: 0
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- As David Nilsen’s investment company unravels, investors wonder if they’ll ever see their money again.
- By Zachary Stahl posted June 05, 2008 12:00 AM
- David Nilsen’s face twitches. The owner and broker of Cedar Funding nervously shifts in his leather seat inside Monterey County Superior Judge Marla Anderson’s courtroom. He wears a black suit,... read on»
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