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The 2020 Santa Cruz County crop report reveals the impact the pandemic had on some of the largest growers. In total, the production value of Santa Cruz County agriculture grew in 2020 by 1.7%, or more than $10,700,000. Strawberries remained the top crop of the county, with an estimated 2,137 planted acres, worth $193,911,000. Raspberries took the number two spot. In total, the report said that berries saw a 6.4% overall increase in value compared to 2019. But, hot weather, wildfire smoke and the pandemic all hampered agricultural production of apples, wine grapes and flowers. Apples saw a 46% decrease...

Two people have died and a third is not expected to survive in Florida after authorities in Florida say a man went on a rampage with a baseball bat and a knife. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said during a press conference that the suspect, 39-year-old Shaun Runyon, was in Polk County, Florida, with a Pennsylvania electric company doing work for Publix Supermarkets’ when a dispute at work prompted him to return to his company-rented housing and attack several people. Police say Runyon punched a supervisor at work around 2 A.M. on Friday and fled. He was not seen or...

When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine and debating implementing some sort of passport system, the Democrats can’t do enough to promote their agenda. Promising that a vaccine passport would help fight the virus and stop the spread of COVID-19, many liberals have endorsed the idea, even though any type of system would ultimately discriminate against those who wish not to get vaccinated. While President Joe Biden continues to list the benefits, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro recently blasted the vaccine passport system being proposed in his country, saying it will eventually lead to population control. Although President Bolsonaro didn’t mention...

Archdiocese of Newark could pay in ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick sex abuse case: judge A New Jersey judge ruled Thursday that the Archdiocese of Newark be held financially responsible for abuse claims against a high-ranking Catholic leader, The Post has learned.The ruling involves accusations that disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick assaulted a boy in the 1980s — and it could pave the way for victims to get bigger civil court payouts.In the precedent-setting ruling, District Court Judge Madeline Arleo found that the wealthy institution is “vicariously liable” — responsible simply for employing McCarrick, without necessarily committing any wrongdoing.“This is huge,” said...

WASHINGTON — Over the past few days, I am sure your news feed has been inundated with articles about the Supreme Court just like mine. Most of the news has revolved around the upcoming cases for the nation’s highest court, but many mainstream outlets have already started the fearmongering once again. Take for example this article from Bloomberg. They specifically target abortion, guns, and faith: three things that the radical left cannot stand. In abortion, they want to start the messaging that the Supreme Court is going after “women’s rights.” They want you to believe it has nothing to do...

NASCAR driver Brandon Brown won the Xfinity race on Saturday for his first national series win. The race was shortened by darkness at Talladega Superspeedway. Advertisement - story continues below After his victory, Brandon was interviewed by NBC hack who tried desperately to run damage control for the Biden regime as the crowd was chanting, “F*** Joe Biden!” NBC reporter attempts desperate damage control as crowd chants “F Joe Biden” pic.twitter.com/1iYZel4zFT — Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) October 3, 2021 Sorry but they weren’t chanting for Brandon!

[Catholic Caucus] Cordileone Prays for PelosiAbortion sowing more divisionOur Lord instructed His Apostles to pray and fast when they came upon demons difficult to exorcise. That's exactly what a California bishop is asking the faithful to do for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who represents a district in San Francisco.Church Militant's Hunter Bradford brings the details you need to know about the "Rose and Rosary for Nancy" campaign. On Wednesday, San Francisco archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced a plan to storm Heaven with prayers for Pelosi: "I am therefore inviting all Catholics to join in a massive and visible campaign...

Construction workers in Detroit discovered what appear to be human remains while digging up a sidewalk on October 1. The crew found the human remains under a sidewalk at approximately 1:30 p.m. at the intersection of Fort Street and Cass Avenue, according to ABC 7. The Detroit Police Department was called to the scene, and a homicide team determined that the bones appear to be human, ABC 7 reports.

Short 2 minute video with allegations that Australian govt was bribed or extorted by Pfizer & AstraZenica into mandates and lockdown.

At first glance, it would appear as though the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) first appeared in late 2019, right around the time when billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates held his Event 201 plandemic exercise. The reality, though, is that the saga dates back to the time of 9/11 when George W. Bush was still in the White House. A document called "COVID-19 Enterprise Fraud Construct Timeline: Major Dates, Events, Entities & Legislation" begins in May 2002 when Bush appointed Dr. Elias Zerhouni, born in Algeria, as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Zerhouni laid much of the groundwork for what...

Russia’s Justice Ministry has blacklisted two Church of Scientology entities, banning them from operating in the country. Moscow has taken numerous measures against the group, arguing that it's a business masquerading as religion. An updated list of “undesirable” organizations was released by the country's Justice Ministry on Friday, just over a week after the Russian Prosecutor General’s office advised a ban for several Church of Scientology affiliates. Two California-based holdings, the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises International (WISE) and the Church of Spiritual Technology (CST), also known as the “L. Ron Hubbard Library,” were officially blacklisted. Both were deemed a...

I just sued Facebook. I didn’t want to sue. I hate lawsuits. I tried for a year to reach someone at Facebook to fix things, but Facebook wouldn’t. Here’s the problem: Facebook uses “independent fact-checkers” to try to reduce fake news on its site. That’s a noble goal. Unfortunately, at least one Facebook “fact-checker” is a climate-alarmist group that cleverly uses its Facebook connections to stop debate. Facebook is a private company. It has every right to cut me off. But Facebook does not have the right to just lie about me, yet that’s exactly what Facebook and its “fact-checker”...

As parting shots go, it packed quite a punch. But then it had been coming for some time. In an open letter announcing his resignation from Portland State University in Oregon, assistant philosophy professor Peter Boghossian condemned his former employer as a “social justice factory, whose only inputs were race, gender and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division”. What had once been a bastion of free inquiry was gripped by “a culture of offense where students are too afraid to speak openly and honestly”. His broadside echoed right across the United States. […] Today, most US universities...

A report released from a voter group in Delaware shows it’s quite possible Joe Biden didn’t even win his home state in the 2020 Election once invalid and suspect ballots are addressed. The National File reports: Delaware saw massive “fraudulent” votes being submitted in the 2020 election and nursing homes that had way more votes submitted than people who lived there, according to 2020 Delaware U.S. Senate candidate Lauren Witzke and a memo from Patriots for Delaware that has been obtained by NATIONAL FILE… …According to a Patriots for Delaware memo written by Jennifer Cooke: “Patriots for Delaware held a...

Attorney Sidney Powell announced last week that her legal team had been granted the opportunity by a Colorado court to depose Dominion Voting Systems security director Eric Coomer. Powell’s team was granted questions in a deposition on Sept. 23. Coomer was reportedly deposed for about an hour. But, thanks to Judge Marie Avery Moses, Coomer’s testimony has yet to be revealed. One day after the deposition, Judge Moses issued a protective order, effectively sealing the transcript. A source told Gateway Pundit: “The Judge issued this order sua sponte, which means that no one asked her to do this. She just...

TikTok star Gabriel Salazar, 19, was driving three undocumented immigrants from Mexico during the night of his fatal, high-speed police chase in Texas in what the local sheriff's office is calling a suspected smuggling case. All four occupants were killed after Salazar crashed into multiple trees along Highway 83 in La Pryor, Texas - about 50 miles from the Mexican border - and the car flipped over and caught fire. Salazar and Luiz Jimenez Mora, 41, Jose Molina-Lara, 23, and Sergio Espinoza-Flores, 36, were all killed at the scene, police said.

The Federal Consumer Prosecutor's Office ( Profeco ) announced this Friday that it could withdraw from the market some of the instant soup brands that exist in Mexico because they have a low nutritional contribution and, on the contrary, are highly caloric (they contribute between 270 to 334 kilocalories per serving ) and contain excess sodium. The Profeco Consumer Magazine announced that in its next issue it will publish the result of the quality study it carried out on 33 brands. At the moment it is still unknown which are the soups whose sale will be prohibited, but these products...

"Baby Mine" is a song from the 1941 Disney animated feature Dumbo. The music is by Frank Churchill, with lyrics by Ned Washington. In 1988, Bonnie Raitt and Was (Not Was) recorded the song for the album, Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films. "Baby Mine", sung by Bonnie Raitt (1988) - from "Stay Awake" (Various Interpretations Of Music From Vintage Disney Films)

For a size of France, there are blissfully few murders. And there are even fewer child murders of the kind that strike terror into the hearts of parents the world over. But just after noon on May 5, 1986, Cécile Bloch’s mother called home to make sure her daughter had made it home for lunch. When she didn’t answer the phone, the worried mother called the girl’s school. Cecile never made it to school that day. The frantic mother called her husband and he had a guard check around the Paris building where they lived. The 11-year-old’s body was found...

Law enforcement and health leaders in Monterey County have a new tool in their fight against the growing opioid crisis on the Central Coast. "Basically what the machine does is in real-time can test a substance and tell you what's in it," said Dr. Reb Close of Montage Health and the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. It's called Tru Narc, a drug testing device rolled out Friday by Montage Health and the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. The $30,000 device can determine the makeup of counterfeit pills and illegal drugs. "The safety comes down to the fact that...