Your Health: Obamacare approaches quickly
Ready or not here it comes. The first stages of implementation of the Affordable Care Act are only a few weeks away. Its goal is to provide health care coverage to some 55 million Americans who currently have no health coverage and to expand coverage to those who are underinsured. This monumental plan takes effect January 1, 2014.
The Mountain Gardener: Living wall shouts love at every turn
I designed other parts of this garden, but this area was all hers. She'd been interested in cactus and succulents for a long time before deciding to combine her passion for these plants and her love of gardening to a problem spot in the garden. The results are jaw-dropping impressive and I was honored to visit this garden and get a private tour.
Talk about money: Bitcoin a growing, fluctuating currency option
If you go wine-tasting on a shuttle bus operated by the Santa Cruz Experience, you can pay the fare with cash or a credit card. Better yet, pay it in bitcoin.
Nature Friendly: Environmentalist fights fracking in county
“Up and down, Up and down, making lots of money.” That was the refrain my grandparents taught us as children as we passed by oil wells and derricks close to their farm house in the West Texas desert. The irony was that they did not get the money, though, because the family did not own the mineral rights.
The Mountain Gardener: Ecosystem reclaims fire-scorched land
Recently, I went to the moon. Or at least it seemed like it.
The Mountain Gardener: Garden lessons from the snowy northwest corner of the United States
SEATTLE — It was a snowy afternoon in the Seattle area when I attempted to ferry across the Puget Sound to Whidbey Island. Whiteout conditions got the best of us, so we chickened out and decided instead to go to a local arboretum and the garden of one of my sister's friends.
News Briefs | Published Sept. 12, 2025
Fun run, emergency preparedness fair set for Saturday
On Saturday, Sept. 13, the City of Santa Cruz will be hosting Race the Wave, a 3K...