Monterey
‘El Bronco,’ elected without party backing, makes history in Mexico
Mexican voters elected their first independent gubernatorial candidate, a victory seen as a protest against the country’s political parties. The main party, the PRI still holds onto to its majority in Congress, but this election still sent a message.
Your Comments: Can You Go Home Again?
We aired a story last week about John Steinbeck and Monterey, California. After returning to Monterey as an older man, Steinbeck wrote, “What we knew is dead…what’s out there is new, and perhaps good, but it’s nothing we know.” Kind of a downer. We asked what your experiences returning home were, and we’ll hear one […]
Travels with Charley: Monterey
John Steinbeck was nearing 60 when he decided to go on a road trip around the country with his poodle. That trip turned into his last major book, Travels with Charley. Fifty years later, we’ve been revisiting Steinbeck’s stops to see how life in America has changed. We wind up the trip in Steinbeck’s home […]
Squid Blitz
Diners call them calamari. Biologists call them “Loligo Opalescens”(low-LEE-go opal-ESS-enz).The owners of California fishing boats simply call them “market squid” and to the market they are going in ever greater numbers. In recent years squid has led California’s fisheries in both tonnage and cash value, surpassing better-known catches like salmon and abalone. Concern is mounting […]