Mixed-Use Development Structure Proposed for Pacific Avenue
A mixed-use development structure proposed to be built in downtown could be the second tallest building constructed in Santa Cruz, if it’s met with approval by the city. The development calls for a 6.5 story building between 53 and 82 feet tall that incorporates…
An Educational Approach to Cinco de Mayo
Tamales and horchata vendors lined the courtyards at Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park for Cinco de Mayo where about 50 people gathered to listen to a well-practiced youth brass band from Oaxaca. The event aimed to promote education and reclamation of the Mexican holiday…
Rent Control Measure Expected to be on Nov. Ballot
Rent control and just eviction laws may be coming to Santa Cruz county after over 10,000 Santa Cruz voters petitioned to place it on this year’s November ballot. The Movement for Housing Justice (MHJ) set out in February to collect 8,000 signatures by July on…
Mobilizing Hundreds: The Pilipinx Response To a Crisis Call
The UC Santa Cruz chapter of Anakbayan will be leading a march at noon on May 3 from Hahn Student Center to raise awareness around the detainment and alleged torture of Pilipino human rights organizer, Jerome Aba. Aba landed in San Francisco Airport (SFO) on…
Santa Cruz Announces Water Shortage Alert
Beginning in October, the rainy season in Santa Cruz brings about 24 inches of winter rainfall on average. By the end of February this year, Santa Cruz saw slightly under 8.5 inches. Due to the recent abnormally dry winter season, Santa Cruz’s water department officials…
Next Step Toward Transitional Housing
Santa Cruz City Council is reviewing four potential sites for the next phase of the transitional housing camp, replacing the current site at 1220 River St. The locations are all on publicly owned land, including the former winter shelter at the California National Guard Armory…
Second Annual March for Science
Amanda Brambila approached the microphone at City Hall as the final speaker in the Santa Cruz March for Science with UC Santa Cruz’s Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans (SACNAS) chapter following with banners and picket signs. “Behind me are STEM students from…
New Bill Would Limit Police Firearm Use
This article has been updated since the original publishing date to include the perspective of the Santa Cruz Police Department and the bill’s text. In response to the Sacramento police shooting of Stephon Clark — a 22-year-old unarmed Black man — California legislators proposed a…
Let Our People Go: Conditions of Confinement
Noisemakers rattled and bullhorns flared as 200 people marched on April 8 toward West County Detention Facility in Richmond, an operating facility of Northern California’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention Center. Individuals of all ages and faiths stand alongside one another holding signs that…
Santa Cruz Takes on Climate Change
Emilio Martinez Castañeda, Beach Flats Community Garden gatekeeper, stepped into the garden and looked out at all of the rows of destroyed maize after what he considered the most devastating flood of his 48 years in Santa Cruz. It would take more than three months…