Community Voices editor Jody K. Biehl reflects on her three years editing columns by Mike Rotkin and the education he offered her about Santa Cruz County, UCSC and being human.

This past week came the news of two departures, Mike Rotkin from this life and Carlos Palacios at year’s end from his ...

When the news broke that Mike Rotkin died Wednesday at his home in Santa Cruz, the outpouring of tributes from grieving ...

The City of Santa Cruz has lowered the flags at City Hall in remembrance of local activist and former Santa Cruz mayor Mike Rotkin.

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

"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.

Visitors and locals traveling along the Santa Cruz coast can expect snarled traffic ... one of them for a period of time,” port engineer Mike Hopper told SFGATE. “This is a complicated project.