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• Learn to identify invasive beetles that threaten trees in Santa Cruz County
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• Fallout from Watsonville airport land use dispute throws hotel, shopping center into jeopardy
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• With developer chosen, Town Center plan in Scotts Valley advances
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• Santa Cruz to build a new type of mental health care center for youth
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• The News: September 21, 2026
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• Bad News for the News Industry
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• The News: September 14, 2026
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• California Forever. Religious freedom now.
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• California Forever Faces a Setback
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• The News: September 7, 2026
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• California Local 2.0
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• Local Businesses & Giant Octopus Celebrate Cruzio’s 35th Birthday
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• Giant Slugs & Giant Sloths — That’s So Santa Cruz
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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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• Trump Is Going Viral in the Worst Ways
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• OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
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• Cornell University Rape Investigation: What We Know
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• Trump Has Become Just Another Disappointing Politician
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• Trump rules out joint US-China venture to develop AI
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• Estonia blames Russia for arson at defence company supplying Ukraine
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• The journalist who became king in Uganda
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• New York Times executive fatally shot by elderly in-laws, police say
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• Lindsay Clancy appears in court as her lawyer pushes for murder case dismissal
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• First female prime minister named in Morocco after winning elections
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• Eiffel Tower chief to quit after female staff replaced by men during religious visit
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• Mistral CEO Says US AI Safety Debate Masks Competitors' 'Negligence'
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• McDonald's Reportedly Using AI to 'Dynamically' Price Its Burgers
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• 500K Facial Recognition Scans at UK Stations Yield Zero Arrests, One False Positive
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• OpenAI Unveils Always-On AI Agent 'Dots'
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• Google Says Chromebook Updates End In 2034, 'Many' Models Move to Googlebook OS
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• California Is Banning Public Officials From Making Memecoins
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• Florida Invokes Extinction Fears In Legal Bid To Halt OpenAI Development
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• El Nino Bursts Through Temperature Record Months Before Peak
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• Microbes Could Survive On Saturn's Moon Enceladus
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• Bananas That Don't Go Brown To Hit Supermarkets Thanks to DNA Editing
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