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Finance | A Century of Housing Crisis and Mortgage Relief
“By their own admission, Fannie executives loosened their mortgage standards to regain market share (the profit motive), as well as to meet government housing...
The Mountain Gardener | Buzzing in the Garden
You can hear them a long way before you see them. I’m talking about the hundreds of honey bees feasting on the highly nutritious...
Plain Talk About Food | The Humble Fava Bean
“...fava beans and a nice Chianti.” —Hannibal Lecter
After seeing the movie, “The Silence of the Lambs,” for many years I had a difficult time...
Finance | Bi-Partisan Housing Affordability Bill Passes as Trump Yawns
“Building costs are still high. There’s more we can do. This bill is nearly 50 provisions, but the problem is even bigger,” Sen. Elizabeth...
The Mountain Gardener | Finding Our Horticultural History
I used to live in Bonny Doon where a huge Tasmanian Tree Fern grew without care on the “lower forty.” It was over 50...
TherapyWorks | The Summer Slide Nobody Talks About
We hear a lot about the academic summer slide—the learning loss that can happen when kids are out of school for months at a...
The Mountain Gardener | Knee High by This Year’s 4th of...
I don’t grow corn in my small, shady garden, so I’m not sure how tall they’d be by now if I planted on May...
Plain Talk About Food | It’s Time for Artichokes
Nothing piques my interest more than the roadside vegetable stands on Highway 1 while driving from Watsonville through Moss Landing and eventually diving through...
Finance | Annuities for Costly Security
“The more you read, the more you’ll know. The more you know, the more you can earn.” —Dr. Seuss.
About those Annuities
Investopedia speaks of investments...
The Mountain Gardener | Watering the Right Way
Think like a plant. The weather might be cool one day, really hot the next day. And your plants are growing like mad in...
Workforce report highlights job growth, economic challenges in Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz County Workforce Development Board has released its 2026 State of the Workforce report, providing an overview of local employment trends, wage data...
