
Sara Rubin
Editor at Monterey County Now
Reporting from the salad bowl of America for @mcweekly. Reader, writer, feminist.
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1 week ago |
montereycountyweekly.com | Sara Rubin
As Salinas City Council revisits four tenant protection ordinances tonight, May 13, the testimony from the public is likely to present two emotionally packed accounts of the impact the suite of four ordinances have. In broad terms, tenants have maintained they are keeping them housed, just barely; landlords say they cannot earn enough money to run a business and keep their rental units maintained.
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1 week ago |
montereycountynow.com | Sara Rubin
As Salinas City Council revisits four tenant protection ordinances tonight, May 13, the testimony from the public is likely to present two emotionally packed accounts of the impact the suite of four ordinances have. In broad terms, tenants have maintained they are keeping them housed, just barely; landlords say they cannot earn enough money to run a business and keep their rental units maintained.
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2 weeks ago |
montereycountynow.com | Sara Rubin
Have you ever wanted to talk directly to someone who made the journey from China to Point Alones, the historic Chinese fishing village in Pacific Grove? This weekend, you can. Sara Rubin here, to advocate for the power of storytelling.
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2 weeks ago |
montereycountynow.com | Sara Rubin
Education promises to be the great equalizer. But that promise has all sorts of assumptions built into it. One is that everyone starts at the same starting line, when in reality, some kids show up to their first day of kindergarten knowing basic reading and numbers. Others show up to kindergarten having never opened a book. And in Monterey County, only 1 in 4 children are kindergarten-ready. “Early exposure helps level the playing field,” says Monterey County Superintendent of Schools Deneen Guss.
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2 weeks ago |
montereycountyweekly.com | Sara Rubin
Education promises to be the great equalizer. But that promise has all sorts of assumptions built into it. One is that everyone starts at the same starting line, when in reality, some kids show up to their first day of kindergarten knowing basic reading and numbers. Others show up to kindergarten having never opened a book. And in Monterey County, only 1 in 4 children are kindergarten-ready. “Early exposure helps level the playing field,” says Monterey County Superintendent of Schools Deneen Guss.
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Serious question for drivers: Why don’t you use your turn signal? (I always do - there could be pedestrians and cyclists coming, and it’s just safer and helpful to others on the road and takes zero effort.)

Follow @pammarino for updates this morning from a Pacific Grove Zoning Administration hearing on a proposed small music venue facing every challenge in the book

Pacific Grove Council Chamber is full—for a zoning administration meeting. People are here because of proposal to open a record store/performance venue downtown. Here's the backstory: https://t.co/iquSj5u2dT

Biking around during Car Week and smelling fumes. I cannot help but think we should treat these toxic machines as important pieces of history—put them in a museum about ingenuity and such—but they should not be celebrated and they sure as hell shouldn't be street-legal.