Month: March 2017

Operation Surf Santa Cruz returns, job fair for vets coming to downtown, FOPAR scholarships, new rides coming to the Boardwalk, Live Oak traffic bust yields guns and meth, homeless man dies on Pacific Avenue, college student falls off Davenport cliff, meltdown on Squid Row, 2 detained at gunpoint at BK on Mission, tire slashers hit local first responders, keep your briquettes off the beach, the fence stays up, Santa Cruz Probation studies recidivism, Hugh’s News, Guerreros, Weekly Shoutouts, and more.

This week, we’re talking about the senseless tragedy at Capitola Mall, a gang stabbing on Soquel, a crazy car chase on West Cliff, the armed robbery at 7/11 on the westside, big meth bust near Twin lakes, mobile drug lab crashes near Dominican, tire slashers downtown, a couple of local gang brawls, SCPD begins posting monthly crime stats online, downtown homeless shelter update, it takes 30 years to build a bridge, Guerreros, and the usual self promotional plugs.

It’s the Ides of March! Et tu Brute? I’ve come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. In the latest Weekly Dump, we’re talking about the Fools Not Bombs fence at the Post Office, the 16 year old gangbanger with a gun arrested at Foster Freeze on Laurel, the meth dealer from Davenport, an exploding RV, transients sleeping in trucks, Majaraja burglarized, a prowler on School street, the peeping tom on Chestnut who got stuck up a tree, downtown junkies, Cal Fire supports vets, Joe Heston nails it again, Hugh’s News, 50 shades of Chris Krohn, Guerreros, and more.

We’ve been declared by the New York Times to be the happiest people in the country. You wouldn’t know it by reading this column! This week, we’re discussing another seemingly weekly local progressive protest that just pisses most people off (as usual), the $200 million dollar price tag for being politically correct, a bank robbery on Morrissey, a car fire on 17, bum thieves caught at the laundromat, Joe Heston speaks the truth, the city looks for feedback on a new chief for SCPD, Steve Bernal speaks the truth, Steve Pleich loves to run for public office early and often, Mike and Kate sing about Santa Cruz, Hugh’s News, Guerreros, and a few other things.

This week we’re playing Truth or Consequences with the city, 3 die in fatal Highway 1 collision, multiple shootings in Felton and Ben Lomond, rolling car chase on the west side, brazen shoplifters downtown, gun flashed at west side party, cold call across from the HSC, bum vandalizes Radio Shack, stabbing in Live Oak, Little Napoleon, The Weekly Bern, Guerreros, and more!