Downtown library plans: Voters should make the decision
Article in the SC Sentinel, 6/24/2022 There are enough residents in Santa Cruz who oppose the location and scope of a proposed multi-use...
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- Jun 19, 2022
- 1 min
Measure S: Renovation, not relocation of library
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 6/19/2022 We know the Santa Cruz Library needs renovation. Measure S passed in 2016 just for that purpose -...
- Jun 18, 2022
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Voters to decide library's future
Petition qualifies for November ballot Aric Sleeper. asleeper@santacruzsentinel.com Article in the SC Sentinel, 6/18/2022 SANTA CRUZ >> A...
- Jun 9, 2022
- 1 min
Lot 4 project will limit affordable housing
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 6/9/2022 Sonja Brunner’s Mayor’s Message, “How do We Get to Affordable Housing” (May 22) tells part of the...
- May 14, 2022
- 1 min
Beware of former mayors bearing gifts
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...
- May 13, 2022
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Renovating current library would achieve civic goals
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...
- Apr 14, 2022
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Affordable housing is not the issue
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...
- Apr 10, 2022
- 1 min
Commons on Lot 4 will improve quality of life
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 4/10/2022 As Market Director, Nesh Dhillon, told a local news source in September 2021, “It would be silly and...
- Apr 2, 2022
- 1 min
With friends like these, you tell me
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...
- Apr 1, 2022
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SC downtown library meshes with civic core
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 4/1/2022 Our downtown library’s current location matches the Los Gatos library location described as...
- Mar 31, 2022
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Campaign's goal is to keep current library location
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 3/31/2022 Someone who misleads should not be trusted to reveal our campaign’s “real goal.” We favor a...
- Mar 30, 2022
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Using existing library building is greenest choice
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...
- Mar 27, 2022
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Plan doesn't find library expansion necessary
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...
- Mar 25, 2022
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Measure S ballot language doesn't include tear down
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 3/25/2022 ...I voted for Measure S trusting the language was transparent and accurate. Of those who voted, 70%...
- Mar 19, 2022
- 1 min
A 'visionary' plan for downtown and library
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 3/19/2022 The diversity of Santa Cruz residents defines us. Our diverse population overwhelmingly passed...
- Feb 27, 2022
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Preserving heritage trees downtown a priority
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 2/27/2022 ... It was once thought that older trees were not so good at carbon sequestration as young trees,...
- Feb 27, 2022
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Present library already has space for vital resources
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 2/27/2022 The former Executive Director of the Friends of SC Public Libraries recently remarked that “Just...
- Feb 20, 2022
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Doesn't see need for new library, more parking
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...
- Feb 17, 2022
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Reflections on revitalizing the existing library
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 2/17/2022 ...Yes, the architects may provide for “natural light” flooding through a wall of windows (possibly...
- Feb 12, 2022
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Past time to put away library ‘boondoggle’
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 2/12/2022 ...Numbers keep changing in the PR effort but funding sources are not there. Additionally, according...
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