Politics

One year ago, 25 members of the General Plan Advisory Committee first gathered for to help revamp the blueprint for Gilroy's future when it comes to development, housing, jobs, transportation and growth in general. The group, known as GPAC, is tasked with revising the city's guiding principles and vision through the creation of a new 20-year General Plan.

Assemblyman Luis Alejo, author of a bill hitting the Assembly floor this week proposing to increase the state’s minimum wage, said the legislation would assist lower-income families in keeping up with escalating costs and that it would dissuade municipalities from passing local rates.

The Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) filed suit Wednesday in Santa Clara County Superior Court against the city of Gilroy, saying that the city broke the law when it approved the annexation of 721 acres of farmland as part of a planned 4000-home development. It asks a judge to stop the city from moving forward on the plan.

Barrack Obama's election did not seem to surprise anybody here,

A split city council, outspoken neighbors and a group of

After several months of closed-to-the-public talks and meetings with a City Council subcommittee, Council will vote during their regular meeting Monday night on whether to give the city clerk a merit raise. 

California’s Attorney General’s now has until Feb. 20 to approve or kill the sale of the Daughters of Charity Health System to Prime Healthcare—a debate that has fractured communities and a union.