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February 28, 2025
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The Mountain Gardener | Landscape Design Tips for Your Garden

This is the time of year to re-imagine your garden. Sure, that cleanup and weed control is an ongoing task, but it’s more fun to picture yourself outside when the weather warms, enjoying that space. What easy things can you do this year to...

Mayor’s Message | Smooth Roads Ahead in Scotts Valley

As a small city operating with only 6.5% of its residents’ property tax revenue, Scotts Valley faces significant financial challenges in providing essential services. However, thanks to the support of our community, we are moving forward with renewed optimism. The passage of Measure X in...

Finance | Taxing the Rich? How the Wealthy Maneuver to Pay Less Than Others

Trump may keep his TCJA from expiring this year as Biden, seeking wealth taxes, claims: “No billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher, a sanitation worker, a nurse.” The IRS and SEC monitor salaries, securities sales, dividends and large estates, so...

The Mountain Gardener | Love Is in the Air — Plant Reproduction

One of my favorite classes when I attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo was Plant Taxonomy. On the surface the subject sounds a little dry, but the professor was all about plant reproduction, which is quite exciting and more varied than you think. So...

Guest Viewpoint | Diving Into My New Role as 5th District Supervisor

Monica Martinez
It has been an exciting first month as your County Supervisor for the Fifth District. After being officially sworn in on Dec. 23 by Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, I took office on Jan. 6 and was symbolically sworn in during a community celebration on Jan....

Strictly Speaking | Unlocking the Brain’s Healing Power: What is Brainspotting?

“Really,” I thought to myself, what is Brainspotting? After Erin Burton, LCSW, finished her introduction at a local event, I decided to set up an interview with her, excited to better understand her work. In our country today, we recognize the importance of addressing mental...

Letters to the Editor | Published Feb. 7, 2025

letters to the editor
Forest Lakes Firewise includes more neighbors When I moved to the San Lorenzo Valley in 2018, I fell in love with living in the forest. But then the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex wildfire opened a whole new view of living in the woods. As lucky...

Guest Column | Walking Together: Damians Ladder, Moose Lodge 545 and Valley Churches Unite to Support Seniors in Need

It has proven itself true—that one alone is on a walk, but two together are going somewhere—and our nonprofit, Damians Ladder, has shown this to be a perfect example of “partnering,” going somewhere together. As a small child, my aunt and uncle would take me...

The Mountain Gardener | Phenology and Climate Change

What’s that wet stuff coming from the sky? Hopefully by the time you’re reading this we will have gotten some much-needed rainfall. I wanted to research the latest scientific papers on how climate change is impacting our gardens. Plants have adapted over millennia to their...

Finance | Cryptocurrency: The Emperor’s Fine Clothing

“The ultimate irony of crypto… is that crypto is succeeding by doing exactly the opposite of what it was originally intended for… Crypto will make governments and big corporations more, and not less, powerful.” —Mehta, Neel; Agashe, Aditya; Detroja, Parth. Blockchain Bubble or Revolution? Bitcoin...

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News Briefs | Published Feb. 28, 2025

Santa Cruz Symphony presents ‘Peter and the Wolf’ family concert The Santa Cruz Symphony will present a family concert featuring Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf”...