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Stephen Kessler. Op-ed in the SC Sentinel, 5/15/2022 Housing advocate, political wit and former Santa Cruz mayor Don Lane is a man of...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 5/13/2022 Standing recently in the verdant City Hall plaza with supporters of Our Downtown, Our Future, I was...

Micah Posner. Op-ed in the SC Sentinel, 4/14/2022 The Our Downtown Our Future Ballot Initiative is exactly what it claims to be, an...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 4/10/2022 I support Our Downtown’s initiative to create a green Commons on our spacious Lot 4 in the center of...

Stephen Kessler. Op-ed in the SC Sentinel, 4/2/2022 When I returned to Santa Cruz in 2006 after some 16 years away, most of them on the...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 4/1/2022 I agree with the March 30 letter that the Half Moon Bay and Los Gatos public libraries are beautiful...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 3/31/2022 The letter (Sentinel, March, 27) stating that Our Downtown, Our Future’s ballot initiative is...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 3/30/2022 In the Winter issue of Sierra Magazine there is an article titled “To Build or Not To Build.” The...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 3/27/2022 After reading through Measure S, specifying build new “when necessary,” I took a look back at the...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 3/25/2022 Ms. Livingston in “Letters to the Editor” quoted the exact language of Measure S. In that “Measure...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 3/19/2022 The diversity of Santa Cruz residents defines us. Our diverse population overwhelmingly passed...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 2/27/2022 On a beautiful page in The Sentinel recently, Watsonville Wetlands Watch asked us to “plant a tree...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 2/27/2022 The former Executive Director of the Friends of SC Public Libraries recently remarked that “Just...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 2/20/22 I do not agree with building a new library. I remember the old Carnegie library, a lovely old...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 2/17/2022 The other day as I approached the downtown library to return some books, I was struck by the...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 2/12/2022 A recent letter by the past president of Friends of the Library makes some nice sounding promises....

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 2/3/2022 A recent letter writer (Feb. 1) accuses Stephen Kessler of “promoting falsehoods.” But this is a...

Stephen Kessler. Column in the SC Sentinel, 1/29/2022 A petition to place a measure on the November 2022 ballot is now circulating that...

Letter to the SC Sentinel, 1/27/2022 The mixed-use library plan has never been put to a vote by Santa Cruz citizens. The passage of...

Paul Cocking. Op-ed in the SC Sentinel, 1/27/22 Our top two questions of the moment are, of course, where to put the homeless camp and...