Potential ICE Raids in Northern Calif.
Immigrations Custom Enforcement (ICE) is planning raids sweeping Northern California in the coming weeks to arrest 1,500 undocumented people, according to a Jan. 16 report from the San Francisco Chronicle. “We are not able to speculate about future enforcement actions,” said San Francisco ICE spokesman...
Rates of Influenza on Campus Increase
Week one of winter quarter, the UC Santa Cruz Student Health Center was overwhelmed with the highest number of influenza cases since 2010. The peak season for the annual flu is November- March, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Symptoms include high fever...
Sounds to Carry You Into the New Year
Let us officially wave goodbye to a year whose politics took a toll on our sanity, but whose tracks gave us wings to enter the new. Whether you want to bust out some dance moves making your way to class, pirouette along Panther Beach...
The Cost of Compliance in the Cannabis Industry
On New Year’s Day, CannaCruz dispensary CEO Grant Palmer saw 400 customers come through his business — almost all were recreational users. In a little less than a week after the year began, the local shop saw an 83 percent increase in business, a big...
Sorry, But You Can’t Be Woke and Go to Coachella
Coachella is the Woodstock of our generation. Advertised as a hub for peace and good vibes, in its most recent years it has drawn in upward of $700 million and crowds of over 70,000 people in per-day attendance. Unbeknownst to most festival attendees, money from...
From Overprescription to Overdose
The opioid epidemic is nothing new, rooted in a legacy of the War on Drugs, the pharmaceutical industry and mental health disparities, but in October 2017 President Donald Trump declared it a public health emergency. Now the nation, small counties such as Santa Cruz and...