The family and friends of the late Mike Rotkin are now raising funds for several memorials and a gathering to celebrate his life and legacy. Rotkin, a longtime Santa Cruz progressive activist, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edited and adapted from the book “Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson” by Mark Kriegel. Copyright © 2025 by Mark Kriegel. From Penguin Press, an imprint of ...

By Sarah Lyall As he played a chainsaw-wielding Elon Musk on “Saturday Night Live” in March, the veteran Canadian comedian Mike Myers was not intending to make a personal political statement.

“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.

The new right-wing House Speaker Mike Johnson has an adult "adopted" Black son. He explained why his son has chosen to keep a low profile and stay out of his public life. Johnson has likened their ...

Risha Nita Rotkin, 63, cherished daughter of Meyer “Mike” and Shirley Rotkin; dear sister of Eileen (Don) Blitz and Arnold Louis Rotkin; loving aunt of David and Sean Blitz and Seth Rotkin.