"Abandoning landline service to county residents without a replacement service is unacceptable," the Editorial Board writes. "Commissioners need to ensure people don’t have to face next winter wondering if they’ll be able to reach the outside world once the power, as it so often does, goes out."
Incumbent Manu Koenig wants to remain as Santa Cruz County Supervisor for District 1. His challenger, Lani Faulkner, is a longtime county resident with a medical and health industry background and a former professor.
Regarding the Board of Supervisors election, here’s my opinion: I support Monica Martinez in District 5, and Kristen Brown in District 2. Each of them is far and away the best-qualified candidate. Neither is facing an incumbent. I hope both of them win outright against their less qualified also-rans. In District 1, I’ll vote for […]
Reading Letters to the Editor regarding the 1st District supervisor’s race is like deja vu all over again. Opponents of Manu Koenig cite “big money,” but they appear to be uninformed (or possibly misinformed) that the maximum contribution to any county candidate is $525. Their candidate has raised as much as Manu at the last […]
I see the Sentinel printed the first two anti-Manu Koenig letters of the upcoming campaign. To set the record straight, both candidates have taken in almost identical sums of money as of the current reporting date. The maximum anyone can give is $525, which restricts large donations. How they spend their money is up to […]