"Extinction was imminent for the California condor in 1980, when just 22 majestic birds existed. A captive breeding and reintroduction program rescued them from the edge," write Valentin Lopez and Tiffany Yap in a Guest Commentary. "This rare sighting of six condors more than 100 miles from their nesting site shows what’s possible if there’s a willingness to combat the extinction crisis. Extinction, after all, is a choice, not an inevitability."
The Amah Mutsun Tribe first encountered the Spanish in the late 1700s. Since then, they’ve been coerced into a centuries-long colonial project that has seized their native land, toppled their polit
"If it's this divisive, it's not worth going forward unless we have some good consensus, I think was where the board landed," said Cabrillo Superintendent/President Matt Wetstein, paraphrasing the board's thinking. "We should not be dividing the community over the college; the college should be uniting the community and let's turn to things that we think can get people behind and united on."