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Travel questions ahead of Big Sur International Marathon, county support for energy storage bill

Highway 1 on the Big Sur cliffs during the 2022 Big Sur Marathon. Runners snake along one side of the highway.
William Brown, Luis Escobar, Karen Fenstermaker, Harrison Page, Andrew Tronick, Don Wilcoxon, Steve Zalan
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Big Sur International Marathon Foundation
Runners completing the Big Sur International Marathon in 2022.

In today's newscast, the Big Sur International Marathon is less than two weeks away and though there hasn't been a dip in international registrants, there have been more questions about travel under the Trump administration. Plus, Monterey County supervisors voted to express support for an energy storage bill that State Sen. John Laird, D-Santa Cruz, introduced.

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