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10 hot jobs in Santa Cruz County
Looking for a new job? Here are ten roles recently posted to our Santa Cruz County Job Board. Forensic Services Supervisor at The County of Santa Cruz. Director of Finance and Business at San Lorenzo Valley Water District. Arts & Culture Community Organizer (PT) at Arts Council Santa Cruz County.
We can end unsheltered houselessness quickly and cheaply — here's our five-step plan
With one-time funds that are unlikely to be replenished running out for the City of Santa Cruz's homeless services, Reggie Meisler and Jasmeen Miah advocate for a five-step solution that will stop the up-and-down funding cycle and avoid a return to criminalization as a primary policy tool. The first step, they write in a Community Voices opinion piece: Purchase 900 to 1,000 recreational vehicles and give them to unsheltered people to live in.
The wild, colorful, monstrous art of Jimbo Phillips
Santa Cruz's Jimbo Phillips is the middle link in a three-generation line of great local graphic artists. As the son of the man who invented the Santa Cruz Skateboards logo and the Screaming Hand, he has carved out his own signature style with an aesthetic deeply informed by the 1980s, surfing, skating and punk rock.
California Dungeness crab season delayed for a second time this year
The start of California's commercial Dungeness crab fishing season has been delayed for a second time because of a high risk that migrating humpback whales may become entangled in the fishing gear, state officials announced Friday. The next assessment to determine the risk of whale entanglement scheduled for around Dec. 7. Recreational crabbers along parts of the Central Coast, including Santa Cruz County, will also continue to face restrictions on using traps.
Ron DeSantis or ChatGPT? When is it cheating? UCSC chancellor on artificial intelligence in education
The emergence of ChatGPT and other generative AI applications has marked an inflection point in education, technology and beyond. UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive sat down with local tech heavy hitter Guy Kawasaki for an insightful conversation about education in this new era, what Larive considers cheating and the role of a teacher in a world when knowledge sits at the tip of our keyboard.
After criminals twice targeted her salons, Monisha Gowder is helping fellow entrepreneurs navigate hardship
Santa Cruz salon owner Monisha Gowder had long considered hosting mixers for fellow entrepreneurs in the community. Then criminals targeted two of her salons in a span of three weeks. The challenges Gowder faced navigating the recovery process only reinforced her resolve to create a support system for fellow female entrepreneurs who are also managing the complexities of running a small business. On Sunday, Gowder is hosting a Women in Business Mixer at her Handsome Beauty Bar in downtown Santa Cruz.
A third of Santa Cruz County households struggle to afford the cost of living, new study says
About one-third of Santa Cruz County households are struggling to afford basic expenses like housing, healthcare and childcare, according to a new United Way study. That figure rises to 58% of Latino households in the county and 45% of households with young children. Officials say more new home construction, better healthcare opportunities and increasing childcare capacity are all vital to tackling the problem.
'Israel/Palestine Learn-In' at UCSC seeks to inform on ongoing conflict
Amid fraught campus debate over the Israel-Hamas war, UC Santa Cruz's Center for Jewish Studies brought together several dozen students, faculty and community members Wednesday in an attempt to answer any questions on any aspect of the conflict.
UCSC, Cabrillo confront fraught campus debate over Israel and Gaza
The Israel-Hamas conflict has triggered a reckoning for college campuses across the country — including at UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College — where tensions over free speech and academic freedom have simmered for years until boiling over in the past month, challenging students, faculty and administrators alike.
We have to do more to tighten pesticide regulation in Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz County holds an unwanted and embarrassing title, says organic agriculture activist Woody Rehanek: "No other county in California has such a high proportion of fumigant gases to overall pesticides applied." In short, we continue to use far too many pesticides, he writes. And the state Department of Pesticide Regulation's draft plan for the use of pesticides for 2024-28 falls short of what we need to protect farmworkers and ourselves.
No atmospheric river after all: Santa Cruz County to face milder rainstorm this week
Santa Cruz County residents can still expect rain this week, but the atmospheric river label won't be applied to this weather system anymore, as it never quite drew moisture from the tropical source that so often spurs the intense winter storms.
The Napa of pot? County supervisors temper pitch for smoking lounges, cannabis agritourism
Santa Cruz County supervisors debated a pioneering cannabis tourism proposal Tuesday that envisions farm tours and smoking lounges. However, county lawmakers said they felt the public needed to be brought in before making such substantial changes.
Santa Cruz County's plan to tackle homelessness is seeing results
Santa Cruz County's three-year plan to combat homelessness is coming to an end and Carlos Palacios, the county's administrative officer, offers an update on what the county has achieved and the work still to be done.
Rain-rich, faucet-famine: The irony of Boulder Creek's ongoing water woes
After a year of heavy rainfall, Boulder Creek faces a paradoxical water crisis. Despite abundant natural resources, private utility Big Basin Water Company is grappling with infrastructure failures traced back to the 2020 CZU fire, leaving faucets dry and costing some residents thousands of dollars.
Watsonville Community Hospital nurses to picket Monday over 'safe staffing, patient safety, retention'
Amid what they've categorized as "extremely contentious" negotiations with the management of financially strapped Watsonville Community Hospital, the hospital's nurses will be making their side of the argument Monday afternoon with a picket along Airport Boulevard.
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