Jeremy Garza

Oct 30, 2024 | lookout.co | Lookout Santa Cruz |Mike Rotkin |Jeremy Garza

Good morning! It’s Oct. 30 — here’s what’s going on in your community today…Today will be cool with times of clouds and sun. The high will be 65 with a low of 48. Cloudy now, changing to mostly cloudy at 9 am. 9 am47°Mostly cloudy3 pm64°Mostly sunny7 pm55°Mostly clearLooking ahead: Rain Friday nightSanta Cruz residents are urged to oppose the Harm Reduction Coalition’s needle distribution program, citing safety concerns and overlap with an existing county program.

Oct 30, 2024 | lookout.co | Lookout Santa Cruz |Mike Rotkin |Jeremy Garza

Good morning! It’s Oct. 30 — here’s what’s going on in your community today…Today will be cool with times of clouds and sun. There is a 2% chance of rain. The high will be 64 with a low of 49. Cloudy now, changing to mostly cloudy at 9 am.

Oct 30, 2024 | lookout.co | Jessica Pasko |Lookout Santa Cruz |Max Chun |Jeremy Garza

Quick Take After 10 years and close to 2,000 tours, popular brewery tour business Brew Cruz is shutting down, with owner Annie Wolff Pautsch putting the familiar bus known as Betty Jane on the market. In November 2013, Annie Wolff Pautsch was sitting at the newly opened Discretion Brewery in Soquel trying to work on her résumé, having recently moved from San Francisco to Santa Cruz and in need of a new job.

Oct 30, 2024 | lookout.co | Mike Rotkin |Lookout Santa Cruz |Max Chun |Jeremy Garza

Quick Take Lookout politics columnist Mike Rotkin endorses all 13 of the local taxes and bonds on the ballot on Nov. 5. No one loves paying, he writes, but the combination of 1978’s Proposition 13 and the current tax structure that gives breaks to corporations at the expense of homeowners is to blame. Local cities need more money to provide services, he writes. Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here.

Oct 30, 2024 | lookout.co | Lookout Santa Cruz |Max Chun |Jeremy Garza

Quick Take Measure Z is a regressive tax that targets working people, writes Jeffrey Smedberg, a Bernie Sanders supporter who helped found Santa Cruz for Bernie. He thinks the city council was hypocritical for putting the measure on the ballot and that the real goal is revenue for the general fund. Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here.