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• Photo | Palm trees along West Cliff Drive silhouetted as the sun sets
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• Scotts Valley City Council reviews proposed budget
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• Pajaro Valley Unified School District commemorates Harvey Milk Day with fifth raising of Pride flag
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• Tax bill passed by House Republicans would gut Biden-era clean energy tax credits
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• Microsoft fires employee who interrupted CEO’s speech to protest AI tech for Israeli military
  SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft has fired an employee who interrupted a speech by CEO Satya Nadella to protest the co…
• A look at the deportees on plane that headed for South Sudan from US
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• Supreme Court declines to reinstate independent agency board members fired by President Donald Trump
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• Work requirements could transform Medicaid and food aid under US budget bill
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• Watsonville Police Chief Jorge Zamora to retire in August
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• Harriette Cole: I overheard my girlfriend say she wants to fly solo at the big event
  DEAR HARRIETTE: I overheard my girlfriend on the phone with someone discussing a…
• Miss Manners: They snubbed us, we cut them, then things got awkward
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• Today in History: May 23, outlaws Bonnie and Clyde killed in police ambush
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• Dear Abby: She just wants to chitchat like she never burned down her house
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• In fourth meeting between San Jose rivals, Branham wins five-set thriller over Leigh with a game-changing block
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• CIF NorCal boys volleyball: Second-round semifinal scores in all divisions
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• Antioch man in stable condition after shooting
  A man found shot in the arm in Antioch on Thursday was in stable condition at a…
• Teacher in South San Francisco arrested on charges of lewd acts with minors
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• Oakland man convicted of killing ex-fiancée, stuffing body in trunk of her car
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• Half Moon Bay man pleads to threatening to kill co-workers at farm where mass shooting occurred
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• First Friday at Cruzio Featuring Liminal Space!
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• Faster Internet Coming to Coastside San Mateo
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• 🎨 First Friday at CruzioWorks!🎨
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• Black-footed Cats
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• Hidden Fortress Opens Cafe at Cruzioworks
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• Cruzio Got a Grant. What That Means for You
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• Cruzio Rides the Giant Dipper (and More)
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• Federal Internet Subsidies are Gone — But We’re Still Helping
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• SCLU Takes the Win at the Memorial Day Surf Contest
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• Equal Access in Watsonville, CA
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• Jimmy Kimmel Digests Trump’s Crypto Dinner
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• Harvard Derangement Syndrome
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• Make No Mistake, Republicans Are Trying to Cut Medicaid
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• In Attacks on Harvard, Chinese See Yet Another Reason to Write Off the U.S.
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• Columbia Violated Jewish Students’ Civil Rights, Trump Administration Finds
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• Hundreds Join Trump at ‘Exclusive’ Dinner, With Dreams of Crypto Fortunes in Mind
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• Trump Makes False Genocide Claims. South Africans Respond With Humor.
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• An Officer Said She Was Disabled. Prosecutors Said She Ran, Skied and Danced.
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• For D.C.’s Jewish Community, Shooting Outside Jewish Museum a ‘Nightmare That We’ve All Been Afraid Of’
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• Trump Confirms Attempted Deportation of Migrants to South Sudan
  The deportees are stuck in Djibouti amid a legal fight over their expulsions. A…

• US says Sudan used chemical weapons in war as it issues new sanctions
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• Netanyahu accuses Starmer of being on 'wrong side of humanity' and siding with Hamas
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• Watch: 'I didn't hear anything' – man who woke to find cargo ship in garden
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• DR Congo strips ex-leader of immunity over treason charges
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• Mob kills Royal Bengal tiger in India's Assam state
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• Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden
  Johan Helberg says he was “quite astonished” to look out of his window and see t…
• Moment Australian politician signs off career with a 'shoey'
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• Sum 41 music agent among those killed in San Diego plane crash
  Federal officials say all six people aboard the small plane are presumed dead.
• 'Leap together' – watch Kermit's advice to graduating students
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• UK signs £101m-a-year deal to hand over Chagos Islands
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• Input wanted on future of Capitola Wharf
  Months after reopening the Capitola Wharf from storm repairs, city leaders are a…
• Missing FEMA money strains Scotts Valley city budget
  Steve Clark, right, and Krista Jett joined the Scotts Valley City Council after…
• Pajaro Valley school district grapples with shrinking budget
  Teachers and supporters rally against potential layoffs at Pajaro Valley Unified…
• New wildfire hazard maps, rules for Santa Cruz County residents
  Cal Fire maps outline areas with high fire hazards. Find your home in the intera…
• Santa Cruz passenger rail options outlined
  Passenger rail could run above Beach Street at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk or…
• New soil tests start after Moss Landing battery fire
  A Jan. 16 battery fire in Moss Landing has prompted health and environmental con…
• Felton Fire loses chief, service contract with Ben Lomond
  Some Felton firefighters have said the agency is not prepared to respond to 911…
• Watsonville rail trail, train depot options presented
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• Santa Cruz affordable housing measure expected on Nov. 4 ballot
  Elaine Johnson, executive director of Housing Santa Cruz County, kicks off a cam…
• Santa Cruz council to consider taller buildings, new Warriors arena downtown
  Spruce Street could close to vehicles from the Kaiser arena to Pacific Avenue as…

• Julia Gitis on Newsracks and SF’s New Community Information Hub (Part II)
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• What Is a Community Foundation?
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• De-weaponizing CEQA
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• Stewart Brand’s ‘Whole Earth’ and its Place in the Universe
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• The News: April 28, 2025
  California prepares for fire season and California Local forks The Newsletter.
• How Chaos Theory Pioneer Ralph Abraham Made His Way to Santa Cruz
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• Gratitude and Generosity
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• Weird Planet Is Orbiting Backwards Between Two Stars
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• Infrared Contact Lenses Allow People To See In the Dark, Even With Eyes Closed
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• DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs
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• AT&T Has $6 Billion Deal To Buy CenturyLink Fiber Broadband Business
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• Business Owners Are Using AI-Generated 'Concerned Residents' To Fight Proposed Bus Line In Toronto
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• Anthropic's New AI Model Turns To Blackmail When Engineers Try To Take It Offline
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• Internet Archive Now Livestreams History As It's Being Preserved
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• Nvidia's RTX 5060 Review Debacle Should Be a Wake-Up Call
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• Destructive Malware Available In NPM Repo Went Unnoticed For 2 Years
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• Microsoft Tests AI Text Generation in Notepad
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• Julia Gitis on Newsracks and SF’s New Community Information Hub (Part II)
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• What Is a Community Foundation?
  By channeling funds to a number of nonprofits working on various issues in a giv…
• CEQA: The Surprising Story of the State’s Keystone Environmental Law
  54-year-old environmental law is often blamed for causing the state’s housing cr…
• De-weaponizing CEQA
  A radical overhaul of the California Environmental Quality Act appears imminent….
• Earth Day 2025 Preview
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• Silicon Valley’s Earthbound Roots
  Elon Musk and his cadre of tech leaders might have us believe that embracing cyb…
• Stewart Brand’s ‘Whole Earth’ and its Place in the Universe
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• The News: April 28, 2025
  California prepares for fire season and California Local forks The Newsletter.
• How Chaos Theory Pioneer Ralph Abraham Made His Way to Santa Cruz
  It was a short strange trip.
• Gratitude and Generosity
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