Opinion

Herman Garcia deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor for his environmental activism. He can be nominated by visiting cmohs.org, going to “Citizen Honors Awards/Apply,” and “Nominate/CMOHS.” Let’s all submit his name.  DJ Smith Gilroy

Diverse communities throughout Gilroy have unified in support of the recall of Councilmember Rebeca Armendariz. She demonstrated extremely poor judgment when she participated and assisted in the planning of a large-scale party where there was underage drinking. At this party, there was a shooting...

This letter is dedicated to anyone reading my thinking aloud tirade. I have been a hardheaded Harry S. Truman Democrat since I was a first-year student at Gilroy High! However, I have had the privilege of working on election campaigns and being a staff member for...

The Gilroy Dispatch, I guess, doesn’t like me any more. I could care less. I have seen it all before, nothing new here! Democrats are not trying to deceive anybody! Every time a Democrat takes office, why are we always fixing the economy? This has been...

I am a longtime supporter of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and I don't support an open-pit sand and gravel mine that would destroy the landscape which is a critical wildlife linkage and the most sacred site of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. The...

On Aug. 23, sometime between 2:30pm and 3:05pm, a shooting occurred at Christmas Hill Park where a male was shot by an attempted assailant and had to be taken to a local trauma center in the hopes of saving his life. The time 2:30pm is...

How much sooner would we have highway improvements if we didn't waste gas taxes and vehicle fees on boondoggle public sector transit? If we didn't run all those empty buses around? If we didn't pretend that public sector transit was beneficial, and cover up...

We understand no one likes energy bills that are higher than expected. Heat waves are causing customers to crank up their AC, which can lead to higher energy bills.  PG&E does not add any mark up on the energy we buy for customers, neither gas...

I am very concerned by the Gilroy Unified School District’s decision to bar parents from the elementary campuses before and after school. This decision greatly diminishes the opportunity to build relationships within the school and is detrimental to building a positive school community. Good...

Biden has been officially nominated for the “Lie of the Year Award” by many media sources with his absurd inflation speech last week.  Firstly, to state that all countries of the world are experiencing as high an inflation rate as the U.S. rate which hit...