Victory for AFSCME Local 3299
Service workers in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 reached a tentative contract agreement with the UC late on Jan. 21 after almost three years without a contract. The new contract includes wage increases, secure benefits, mechanisms to limit...
Tuition Hike Proposals Draw Crowd of Protesters
Demonstrators turned a Jan. 22 UC Board of Regents meeting into a representation of ongoing power struggles between students and workers on one side and UC administrators and regents on the other. During the public comment period of the meeting, held at the UC San...
Abortion Services to Come to UC, CSU Campuses
California became the first state in the nation to require its public universities to provide on-campus medication abortion services on Jan. 1. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 24 on Oct. 11, 2019. Also known as the College Student Right to Access Act, the...
Santa Cruz City Council and Board Address University Growth Plans
UC Santa Cruz administration is working to pass a new proposal for the Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) to expand enrollment to 28,000 students by 2040 and introduce new graduate and undergraduate housing through Student Housing West (SHW). The proposal has faced backlash on and...
ISU Members Talk Soleimani, Sanctions and Iranian Culture
*Pseudonym used to protect source’s identity From sanctions to the brink of war, the world’s attention has been fixed on Iran. On Jan. 3, a U.S. airstrike killed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani while on a diplomatic envoy in Iraq. Early Jan. 8, a dozen...
Modi Must Be Stopped
The origins of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Islamophobia stretch back further than his election in 2014. Further, even, than his time as chief minister of the state of Gujarat. Modi’s Islamophobic worldview can be traced to his enrollment in the volunteer paramilitary organization Rashtriya...
Respect Indigenous and Aboriginal Knowledge
Aboriginal Elder Noel Butler regards the burned remains of his home. Scorched wood and disfigured sheet metal indicate where the home he built once stood. The ashes and burned landscape extend for miles, just a small portion of the damage caused by the latest bushfires...
Santa Cruz County Secures Federal Aid for Road Repairs
After a year of requests, Santa Cruz County secured about $46 million in emergency repair funds to address 84 road service projects. But the path to securing those funds was difficult, said Santa Cruz County’s director of the Public Works Department (PWD) Matt Machado, who...
City Reopens Armory as Winter Shelter
The new shelter comes in the wake of several recent deaths of houseless individuals on the streets of Santa Cruz and a general rise in houseless deaths in recent years. From 2008-16, an average of 36 houseless people died each year in Santa Cruz County....
A Guide to the 2020 Democratic Primaries
There are seven weeks until Super Tuesday, March 3, the most important day of the presidential primary election. Fourteen states, including California, will vote. To prepare, read City on a Hill Press’s guide on the leading Democratic candidates’ views, policies and positions. This week, read...