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December 17, 2025

Letter to the Editor | Protect Critical Funding to Safeguard Local Healthcare Services

To the Editor: As the CEO of Mee Memorial Healthcare System (MMHS), I am writing to share an important concern that could have serious consequences for our hospital and clinics and the community we serve. There is growing discussion about potential cuts to Medicare and...

Window on the World Column | The Next Book

Lucy Jensen
There are many things that drive me crazy about this country; but the lack of opportunity is not one of them. I have always known that I can do whatever I want to do here, when I set my mind to it. Years ago, I...

Guest Column | Your Holiday Health Survival Guide: Balance, Wellness and Joy

Mee Memorial Healthcare System Rena Salamacha
The holiday season brings excitement, but it can also disrupt our routines and make it easy to let healthy habits slip. With travel, parties and shopping, it’s common for our usual health practices to take a backseat. One of the biggest challenges in December is...

The Happy Book

Local column by Lucy Jensen

Funny Papers Again Column | And a Good Time Was Had by All

Last Sunday one of the readers of this column listened, patiently I suspect, to my not uncommon lament of having a deadline in the near future and not a single word written, whereupon he responded that I say that every week and every week...

Letter to the Editor | King City Needs Another Grocery Store

To the Editor: If ever there was a good example of why King City needs another major grocery store, it was Friday, July 22. Folks walking in the door at Safeway to do their weekend shopping were faced with a totally empty meat case. Not...

Proud to be a father

Local column by George Worthy

Guest Column | Cal State Monterey Bay’s Rising Graduation Rates Strengthen the Future of the Central Coast

Vanya QuiƱones
At Cal State Monterey Bay, we recently reached a milestone that speaks to the power of higher education as well as the future strength of California’s workforce. For the last 10 years, the California State University system has taken on an ambitious challenge, the...

Funny Papers Again Column | A Short Column Today, Folks, Cuz Deadlines Don’t Wait for Nobody

Steve Wilson
Growing up in Greenfield in the late 1950s through the ’60s and beyond, we (ā€œweā€ meaning those whose parents, grandparents and beyond spoke English) were introduced to foreign languages and English with idioms and accents previously unknown to us. I doubt I’m alone of...

Funny Papers Again Column | A Fading Miracle, an Outrage, and a Worthy Day

Steve Wilson
Have you ever been to Macy’s? I mean THE Macy’s, the flagship store on 34th Street on the island of Manhattan. A couple of decades ago, I had the opportunity to wander about New York City’s boroughs, all but Staten Island, and of course...
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