Real ‘falsehood’ is building library on new site
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 2/3/2022 A recent letter writer (Feb. 1) accuses Stephen Kessler of “promoting falsehoods.” But this is a...
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- Feb 2, 2022
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Reasons to sign the ‘Our Downtown’ petition
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...
- Feb 2, 2022
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Don’t move ahead on library plan without vote
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...
- Feb 2, 2022
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The top two questions for Santa Cruz
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...
- Feb 2, 2022
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Repair trust in city government by listening
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 1/26/2022 When a letter writer (Jan. 18) wrote that voters’ trust is eroded and confidence undermined in city...
- Feb 2, 2022
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Santa Cruz Planning Commission not part of library decision
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 1/21/2022 An article in the Jan. 13 Sentinel reported on the County Planning Commission’s recent meeting at...
- Feb 2, 2022
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Santa Cruz can’t afford to build parking structure
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 1/18/2022 City staff proposed a new parking garage in Downtown Santa Cruz (combined with library and housing)...
- Feb 2, 2022
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Let Santa Cruz voters decide about library plan
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 1/15/22 ...We need a place that’s green, where we can relax and walk in peace. But why not make it simple?...
- Feb 2, 2022
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Keep library where it is; create plaza blocks away
Letter to the SC Sentinel, 1/15/2022 Concerned that the city has hidden plans for reusing the corner lot of Church and Cedar, where a...
- Feb 2, 2022
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Community led initiative and Library Mixed-Use project could face off in November
Ryan Stuart. Article in SC Sentinel, 1/13/2022 One of the initiative organizers, John Hall, stated that just one of the lots designated...
- Feb 2, 2022
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Downtown Name Game
Letter to Good Times, 11/10/2021 ...The city-sponsored (Mathews’ gang) proposed mixed-use project added “an olive branch” to an atrocious...
- Feb 1, 2022
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A proposed compromise for library plan
by Mark Levy | January 13, 2022 | Op-ed, SC Sentinel I have lived, taught, and worked in Santa Cruz proper since 1971. I’ve seen a lot of...
- Feb 1, 2022
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Talk of the Bay on KSQD: Chris Krohn interviews John Hall and Erica Aitken
December 14. 2021 – On Talk of the Bay, Chris Krohn delved into two "citizens initiatives" with this episode titled Making Public Policy...
- Feb 1, 2022
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For a welcoming community space downtown
Letter to Good Times, 12/15/2021 - Imagine walking through our downtown streets in the shadow of the slated-to-be-built many-storied...
- Feb 1, 2022
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Promoting automobilism with parking garage
Letter to SC Sentinel, 12/15/2021 - There are reasonable-sounding rationales for adding a large parking garage to a downtown library...
- Feb 1, 2022
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Library design story ignored two crises
Letter to SC Sentinel, 12/14/2021 - I read Monday’s lead story on the proposed library mixed-use design with dismay because the proposal...
- Feb 1, 2022
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Put the library multi-use plan to November vote
Letter to SC Sentinel, 12/12/2021 - If you look at the agenda for City Council’s meeting on Tuesday, you’ll see that there’s a plan to...
- Feb 1, 2022
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Not a YIMBY and not a NIMBY either
Letter to SC Sentinel, 12/12/2021 - Ross Gibson’s recent article has done us a favor providing thoughtful history about the negative...
- Feb 1, 2022
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City can use excess parking funds for needs
Letter to SC Sentinel, 12/09/2021 - A letter writer’s assertion on Nov. 12, that it’s illegal to use excess parking revenue to support...
- Feb 1, 2022
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A Win for the Library, Parking and the Community
Curt and Karen Simmons NOTE: We are printing this op-ed piece published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel July 14, 2019 because it is as timely...
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