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December 6, 2025

Funny Papers Again Column | The Gradual Waning of American Shock

Steve Wilson
Saturday afternoon around 4:30 I was 410 words into my column for this week when my cell phone rang. The choice to interrupt a train of thought while writing usually falls to the ā€œlet it ring and go to voicemailā€ protocol, but in this...

Letter to the Editor | Working Together to Help Animals

To the Editor: SPCA Monterey County agrees that we need solutions to save stray animals (ā€œWe Need Solutions to Save Our Stray Animals,ā€ Aug. 10). Those answers are low-cost spay/neuter, adoptions, foster care, microchipping and compassionate shelters, rescue groups and animal control agencies working...

Guest Opinion: PBS’ ā€˜Frontline’ missed the mark about our agricultural industry

Last week, PBS’s news program ā€œFrontlineā€ aired an episode about Covid-19’s devastating impact on the lives and health of farmworkers in Monterey County and meat packers in Kings County. The stories, voices and fears of our farmworkers are certainly important and must be heard by all...

Letter to the Editor | Advocating Love Over Fear

To the Editor: Thank you Rustler columnist Steve Wilson for using your platform to examine the pressing issues facing us in real time. Your words of March 27, in the middle of what Christians across the world celebrate as Holy Week, remind us that all...

Worthy to Print Column | Respect for Our Flag

The other day I had invited one of my best friends to come down from Oregon to have lunch and just catch up. Gordon has a son that lives off the grid up in Oregon, and so he spends a lot of time up...

Window on the World Column | A Letter to My Sister — Part III

Lucy Jensen
ā€œDarling, darling, we have to stop! This is my cousin’s house!ā€ Car comes to a screeching halt, dust flying. We unload, remove our shoes at the door. Everyone sits in the family room. Boiling hot chai tea is produced in tiny glass cups with...

Worthy to Print Column | We the People

George Worthy
Wow! Things are sure happening fast. By things I mean politics and the folks that claim that they are politicians. I just sat down to write my column this week and started getting a little concerned. I might point out that if you aren’t...

Sometimes it can get pretty fun here

Local column by Joanne Banuelos

Funny Papers Again Column | ā€˜Oh, Thou Most Horrid of All Days!’

I have never held back vociferous disparagement of this date on the calendar, and I have no intention of abandoning that position at this late time in life. Today, as you all are aware, is the Winter Solstice; the shortest amount of daylight is...

A mother’s wisdom

Guest Commentary by Lourdes Villarreal, Greenfield Resident
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