December 26 — ALMOST FORTY-EIGHT frustrating hours after drenching rains and ferocious winds knocked out the power late Tuesday night, thousands of Monterey Peninsula residents and hundreds of businesses were counting up the losses of such an extended outage during the biggest holiday week of the year ... Read More

December 26 — GOV. GAVIN Newsom signed California’s Phone-Free Schools Act to much applause in 2024 as teachers, parents and even the media thought public schools across the state would soon be rid of smartphones — but one year later, not much has changed. Despite the law’s name, the legislation does nothing ... Read More

December 25 — IT’S BEEN an enlightening few weeks for local teachers, after union members discovered a waiver that exempts the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District from spending the state’s mandatory minimum on their salaries. Three years ago, MPUSD quietly joined a third of California’s unified school districts in using the loophole ... Read More