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Guest commentary: Affordable housing requires affordable, reliable water — now
The State Water Board now has a chance to do something rare in California policy: update an enforcement order to reflect success, not failure.
Guest commentary: Cal Am distributes BS, not water
The history of Cal Am’s ongoing recalcitrance makes it impossible for local governments here in Monterey County to issue permits for needed housing and for our community to prepare for...
Michael DeLapa, Guest Commentary: How to waste $1 billion in less than a minute
Why would a public agency support an unnecessary and risky billion-dollar desalination plant and let a private utility profit hundreds of millions of dollars at the public’s expense? Here’s the...
Guest commentary: The lesson of Monterey Downs
On Tuesday, the Monterey City Council will decide whether to issue a request for proposals to pave over 126 acres of natural lands, full of native oak trees, endangered plants,...