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• Driscoll’s CEO steps down amid growing activist pressure on company for use of pesticides
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• Two competing visions for Bay and Escalona intersection in Santa Cruz
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• As big buildings come to Santa Cruz, leaders want suggestions to make them less ugly
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• With new funds, Felton Fire looks to hire
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• Santa Cruz could lower speed limits near schools, business areas
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• The News: August 24, 2026
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• A Visit with the Rotarians of the Santa Cruz Mountains
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• The News: August 17, 2026
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• Meet the Real Claude
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• The News: August 10, 2026
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• Cruzio at the CPUC: What We Shared About Connecting San Jerardo
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• The Critters We See When We Build Infrastructure
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• Local Businesses & Giant Octopus Celebrate Cruzio’s 35th Birthday
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• Giant Slugs & Giant Sloths — That’s So Santa Cruz
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• First Friday at Cruzio Featuring Liminal Space!
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• Faster Internet Coming to Coastside San Mateo
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• Maria Bartiromo Is Out at Fox News
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• Steinem’s N.Y.C. Brownstone Will Continue to Be a Sanctuary for Feminism
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• Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I.
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• Trump to Break Ground on Arch Before Getting Approval
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• Volkswagen Plans to Cut 50,000 Jobs
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• Argentina to sanction oil firms as tensions heighten in Falklands dispute with UK
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• Could robots be the future of theme parks?
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• Volkswagen board approves plan to cut another 50,000 jobs
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• Tensions flare as judge declines to remove juror in Lindsay Clancy trial
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• Girl group Katseye are missing two members, but their tour still dazzles
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• Transplanted pig kidney works in US man's body for record 271 days
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• Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings
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• Four Major AI Models Suffer Rare Overlapping Downtime
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• Apple Sued For $2.7 Billion Over App Tracking Transparency Rules
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• Xbox Cloud Gaming Switches to Monthly Hour Limits
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• 'Welcome to the AGI Era,' OpenAI Says As GPT-6 Astra Debuts
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• Nvidia Launches Free Tool That Links Idle Computers Into a Personal AI Data Center
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• Audacity 4 Rebuilds the Open Source Audio Editor But Leaves Some Features Behind
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• Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling
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