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News from Neighboring States for March 18, 2018: In February, the Santa Cruz City Council unanimously declared a fiscal emergency, preparatory to placing a quarter-cent sales tax increase on the June ballot.
How Santa Cruz is going under, like many California cities Colorado: The mountains are starved for snow, but a warm winter is speeding up construction