Opinion

Have you ever had a situation that required you to step way out of your comfort zone? Perhaps meeting someone that is important to your future for the first time? Or maybe you are looking for a new job that might be a little...

Local column by Joanne Banuelos

At Cal State Monterey Bay, our mission has always been clear. We exist to serve the people of the Central Coast and to strengthen the communities that make the region unique. Every program we expand, every partnership we form and every investment we make...

What you don’t always appreciate is how much you love your home when you are away and, especially, your critters. On about the third week of our trip, we started to really think about heading home. We were missing it. But we had a...

On Nov. 1, 2023, a high school student by the name of Jacob accompanied his friend to a confrontation with another student, the theft of a pair of earphones and a vape pen the week prior the cause. This was one of those predetermined...

Some 30-plus years ago I was employed by what was then known as the Greenfield News, we now know it as one of the triune Salinas Valley Tribune editions, which include the once Gonzales Tribune and Soledad Bee. The title Editor included citywide reportorial...

Many moons ago on Highway 101 just north of Greenfield there was an odometer check. This consisted of four signs, the first starting a few hundred yards shy of Hudson Road, marked Mile 0, Mile 1, Mile 2, Mile 3 and finally Mile 4....

This column about Homecoming appearing 12 days after the events of that week is not a mistake, I felt that coverage in last week’s edition needed nothing further about the subject, so it appears this week as planned. A bit of confusion arose in my...

For those of us who are now in our seventh decade, and those of decades more, there are certain times in history that may influence us in often-profound ways. It stands to reason, then, that any news story which gobbled up precious air time...

Let’s look at part of the record of Richard “Dick” Cheney of Wyoming, first the part that ushered in a new phase of American media where required balance of news coverage no longer existed. In this new era of media, most prominently television, we...