David Schmalz

Will East Garrison, a planned community on the northeastern edge of the former Fort Ord, ever have a “town center,” as envisioned when it was approved nearly 20 years ago?

The season for Dungeness crab in Monterey Bay historically starts in mid-November, but in recent years has been delayed to avoid potential entanglements with whales.

Usually, Monterey’s history is an asset, something to highlight, but in some cases, it’s complicated. History is part of what’s holding up a 42-unit affordable housing project on a 0.5-acre

On a recent morning, the whirs of construction carry through the air at 2300 Garden Road in Monterey, and Brad Slama, a developer, leads the way through a massive former

Evangelina Mateo, an English and social studies teacher at Greenfield High, has an ethos she tries to instill in her students: “Greatness has no magic,” she says. “Greatness is equivalent

This November, residents of Monterey will be voting in their second-ever district-based election. The open seats on council are in districts 3 and 4 – essentially, the Monte Vista neighborhood

Imagine a library where one could hole up for hours, reading historical documents in a room decorated to both look and feel like it’s straight out of the late 19th

Joe Kapp was born in Santa Fe, but he was made in Salinas.

David Schmalz here. At the Seaside City Council meeting May 2, Stanford historian Carol McKibben, who wrote a history of Seaside that published in 2011—Racial Beachhead: Diversity and Democracy in

David Schmalz here. Growing up just east of Berkeley, I heard the name Joe Kapp quite a bit, as my dad was (and is) an avid Cal football fan, and