Jaime Welton

San Jose

Web Producer at Bay Area News Group

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Monterey County: 2025 Artichoke Festival canceled without plans to return amid financial strain

5 days ago | mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton

The annual Artichoke Festival, held in Monterey County since 1959, was canceled indefinitely on Friday by the festival’s board of directors. The event was long held in Castroville but moved to the Monterey County Fairgrounds, in the city of Monterey, in 2014. It was scheduled to be held this year in Salinas for the first time, in June. But organizers said in a message on the festival’s website that the board determined the costs of putting on the festival were unsustainable.
Fairfield travel agent sentenced to 9 years for defrauding South Asians

5 days ago | mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton

A Fairfield travel agent has been sentenced to nine years behind bars for defrauding members of the South Asian community in Northern California, state prosecutors said Friday. Iqbal Singh Randhawa stole a total of $147,617, according to a complaint by California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Randhawa, a former Fairfield council candidate who goes by Paul, is listed as president of M&K Travel Services Inc. in his LinkedIn profile.
Letters: To honor mothers, do more to stem overdose deaths

6 days ago | mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton

We must do moreto stem fatal overdosesMother’s Day is a day that evokes joy for many, but it carries a painful significance for me. I lost my son Eric to an overdose on Nov. 23, 2022, just three weeks shy of his 32nd birthday. For far too long, society has responded to substance use disorders with stigma and punishment rather than compassion and understanding. Harsh drug laws are ineffective, costly and steeped in systemic racism.
Letters: President Trump’s Alcatraz plan is just another pipe dream

6 days ago | mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton

Trump’s Alcatraz planjust another pipe dreamDonald Trump has no plan for reopening Alcatraz as a modern prison, so why worry about how much it will cost? Remember his wonderful, extraordinary new nuclear treaty with Iran? Still in the works. Peace in Ukraine? Trump has a track record of overblown ideas that go nowhere. The next administration will throw this impulsive idea in the trash where it belongs.
Letters: Americans don’t have a vested right to Social Security

1 week ago | mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton

Feds aren’t obligatedto pay Social SecurityThere’s a long-standing misconception among the American people that they have a vested “right” to Social Security payments. In 1960, the Supreme Court ruled that such is not the case. In Flemming v.
Letters: In Congress’ absence, citizens must lead resistance

1 week ago | mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton

Without Congress,citizens must resistThis relentless assault on higher education, which also includes targeting international students, threatening to blow up the accreditation system and eviscerating the U.S. Department of Education, is a transparent attempt to exact revenge and silence opposition. In my work in education research, I study how higher education transforms lives while producing knowledge and life-changing technologies.
Letters: Santa Clara County board must deny builder’s remedy plans

1 week ago | mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton

Board must denybuilder’s remedy plansSanta Clara County’s rural areas are threatened by a flood of harmful “builder’s remedy” development proposals that could result in an unprecedented loss of farmland and open space throughout unincorporated Santa Clara County. The builder’s remedy law says if a city or county doesn’t have a state-approved plan for building enough homes, developers can ignore zoning rules and build anywhere they wish, as long as the project fits certain criteria.
Letters: Utilities regulator has become PG&E’s lapdog

1 week ago | mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton

CPUC has becomePG&E’s lapdogI appreciated the column by Loretta Lynch, former president of the California Public Utilities Commission. I was infuriated to read that the current PUC approved billions of dollars more to PG&E without reviewing their needs in a public hearing and providing details for us, the consumers, to understand the justification for the multiple rate increases.
Letters: Trump’s AmeriCorps cuts are not making America great

1 week ago | mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton

Trump’s cuts are notmaking America greatI am a volunteer with The Reading Program, which is funded by AmeriCorps. I wanted to give a first-hand account of what these cuts mean. I’ve been helping a struggling 10-year-old learn to read at her grade level. She is so invested in learning and looks forward to our tutoring sessions, always asking when we will meet again. To have this tutoring just cut off will hurt her progress, as well as the trust we have built.
Mexico’s president says she rejected Trump’s plan to send US troops

1 week ago | mercurynews.com | Jaime Welton

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico said on Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump proposed sending American troops into Mexico to help her administration fight drug trafficking but that she rejected it.