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Rep. Jimmy Panetta announced staff mobile office hours for veterans services from 1-3 p.m. Monday at the Cabrillo College Veterans Information Center, 6500 Soquel Ave. Building 900, No. 914.

Mobile office hours are an opportunity for veterans living on the central coast to meet with Congressional staff members, and are offered in addition to meetings in the Salinas and Santa Cruz Congressional offices. To schedule a meeting, call 831-424-2229.

Monterey >> An in-house survey of the membership of the Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce showed the top two topics of interest were an "available water supply" and "infrastructure investment," prompting the movers and shakers at the federal, state and local levels to address those issues among others at the 17th annual Leadership Luncheon on Wednesday.

At the rate the gender pay gap is closing, women in the U.S. can't expect to be paid equally until at least 2119. The sad reality is that women are paid 80 percent of what men are paid for the same work — and the gap is even worse for women of color. Black women make just 68 percent, and Latina women just 54 percent, of what their male counterparts earn. Women can't afford to wait 100 years for equal pay, so ahead of the midterms, Bustle asked all 529 current U.S.

Veterans Resource Centers can be found on college campuses across the nation, but funding for them is scarce. A bill in Congress could change that.

Army veteran Gilbert Bernabe is not your traditional college student. He served in both Iraq and Afghanistan before starting work on his bachelor's degree. By then, he was 35 and going through a divorce.

He credits support from on campus Veterans Resource Centers at Hartnell College and Cal State Monterey Bay for keeping him on track. He graduates this semester.

Marina >> The Veteran Resource Center at CSU Monterey Bay might be getting some financial help in the near future from federal government grants that have been proposed.