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San Jose to Host International Podcar Forum
Mar 09, 2010, by Danny Wool News
Most people don’t know it yet, but San Jose is widely acclaimed as a world leader in podcar development, with Mountain View coming in at a close second. That’s why the city has been chosen to host “Podcar City: San Jose, Innovating Sustainable Communities,” an international summit on electric podcars, organized by the International Institute of Sustainable Transportation. The event will take place at City Hall, October 27-29.
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Westside Coffee Shop Goes Unplugged
Mar 09, 2010, by Staff Business
Who can forget Eric Clapton’s stellar performance on MTV’s “Unplugged” series, or the doleful sounds of Kurt Cobain with only an acoustic guitar? Anger transformed into angst. As the late, great Elliot Smith once said, “If you play acoustic guitar you’re the depressed, sensitive guy.” And that could be just what the Abbey Coffee lounge on Mission needs.
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Local Schools Don’t Make the Grade
Mar 09, 2010, by Danny Wool NewsYesterday Santa Cruz.com reported that school administrators were anxiously awaiting “The List” of “persistently low-achieving schools” across the state. The list is out, pending final approval by the California Department of Education, and the Bay Area did not do so well. About 20 schools, three of them in Santa Cruz County, found themselves on the List.
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Violent Weekend in Watsonville
Mar 08, 2010, by Danny Wool NewsA 7-year-old boy was shot and a 20-year-old man was stabbed in the Cabrillo Lanes bowling alley in Watsonville on Friday. Both victims are listed in stable condition. Police arrested Jordan James Micias, 20, and Abraham Santoyo, 18, for the attack, charging them with gang-motivated attempted murder.
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Santa Cruz Going to the Dogs?
Mar 08, 2010, by Danny Wool Business
Dogs may be returning to downtown Santa Cruz as the board of the Downtown Association prepares to vote on whether to ask the city to repeal its longtime ban on dogs along Pacific Avenue. Until now dog owners have been forced to take their pets to more canine-friendly spots on the Westside and the Harbor.
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School Administrators Wait for “The List”
Mar 08, 2010, by Danny Wool News
It has all the tension of Oscar night, except there is no little gold statue in the end. In fact, the results are worse than winning a Razzie. School administrators and teachers across California are waiting breathlessly today to see if they made “The List,” and are cited as the “187 worst performing schools in the state.” Superintendents and principals have already been informed, but for everyone else, the news will come at 10am this morning.
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Ten Questions for Marina Sousa
Mar 05, 2010, by Staff Community
The creative genius behind Capitola-based Just Cake and the winningest baker ever to rock a cake on Oprah shares some facts about her life—including one very strange irony.
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Downtown Santa Cruz Businesses Slowly Picking Up
Mar 05, 2010, by Staff Business
There’s good news for businesses in downtown Santa Cruz. After two and a half years of recession— National Bureau of Economic Research claims that the downward trended started in December 2007—things are finally looking up. Downtown has suffered significantly in that time not only from the recession but also because of a negative image as a center for gang members and the homeless.
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The Rad Girls Punk Santa Cruz
Mar 05, 2010, by Curtis Cartier News
Ramona Cash is a cute, punky looking brunette you’d expect to see modeling skirts and bikinis in a skateboard fashion catalog. Over coffee in downtown Santa Cruz, she parts a section of her professionally highlighted hair to reveal an inch-wide heart-shaped bald spot from where her friends precisely ripped the hair from her scalp.
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Rally Highlights K-12 Woes
Mar 05, 2010, by Maria Grusauskas News
As a small procession made up mostly of university students made its way down Pacific Avenue yesterday, some onlookers were unimpressed.
“Seems pretty meager for a protest,” one man said, watching as a banner passed that read “We are the Budget Cuts.” What he, and perhaps many Santa Cruz residents, didn’t know is that the meager procession had broken off from a group of at least 400 students, faculty and workers who had been picketing since daybreak at the main entrance to UCSC. In a rare coalescence of solidarity between the town and the gowns, the university protest was, in the form of this small group, merging with a community demonstration to save public education.
