A cyclist arrives at the Garfield Park Library on Woodrow Avenue in Santa Cruz on Thursday, where local author and nationally recognized feminist Susie Bright had earlier left a loving message in ...

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Former Santa Cruz mayor and longtime city leader Mike Rotkin died at his home on Wednesday. He was 79.

Mike Rotkin arrived in Santa Cruz in 1969, not long after the University of California, and soon not only became a pillar of ...

Beloved community member, five-time Santa Cruz Mayor and longtime UC Santa Cruz lecturer Mike Rotkin, 79, died Wednesday at ...

"There are plaques with Barry Swenson's name on them all the way up and down Pacific Avenue and side streets," said Mike Rotkin, the mayor of Santa Cruz in the years after the earthquake.

Merrill – Mike Rotkin (Ph.D. ’91, history of consciousness), former UC Santa Cruz lecturer and Santa Cruz mayor. Oakes – Jacob Martinez (Oakes ’05, ecology and evolutionary biology), founder and ...