An award-winning journalist, Christopher Neely’s narrative, long-form work has focused on the environment, urban issues, the justice system, water politics, and interesting people, all across the United States.
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The renewables industry battles a range of issues, from tariffs to a war.
Monterey County Weekly, 2022
Sir Kenelm Digby, a 17th-century philosopher – and pirate – understood the shapeless qualities of wine. When he first transferred the beverage from oak barrels into a glass bottle in the mid-1600s, wine became the glass bottle. It’s unclear, however, whether he understood how difficult it would be over the next 400 years for quality wine to become anything else.
Monterey County Weekly, 2022
A motion for a retrial in a murder case asks: How clean do the lines of justice need to be? (Accompanying column)
Monterey County Weekly, 2022
A quiet fight for soil is unfolding between invasive and native plant species. with significant consequences for the ecosystem. (Accompanying column)
Monterey County Weekly, 2022
Can a redistricting proposal to tie the rural, agricultural region of the Salinas Valley to Silicon Valley stand? (This story won a California News Publishers Association Award in the In-Depth Reporting category)
Monterey County Weekly, 2021
The 2022 water year marked the first in at least 140 that residents and businesses of the Monterey Peninsula received most of their water from a source other than the Carmel River—a reprimand 26 years in the making that created water instability unseen since the 1970s. The looming crisis owes itself, in part, to political stagnation and sharp disagreement among the area’s utility, residents, and public agencies over a major project to stabilize the region’s water needs. (Accompanying column)
Monterey County Weekly, 2021