Editorial: Looking forward to telling the stories that matter
As the calendar turns, there’s a natural temptation to rush forward—to close the book on 2025 as quickly as possible and greet 2026 with a fresh page and high hopes.
That instinct is understandable. This past year asked a lot of us.
In big ways and...
Editorial: Can We Trust Perry Woodward?
The bizarre events of December 2015 will be long etched in Gilroy’s political history. Mayor Don Gage stunned the city by resigning without warning a year before his term ended, effectively handing the reins to his political ally, Perry Woodward. The handoff allowed Woodward to run as an incumbent—but not before the duo pushed through approval of a massive farmland annexation that would have, along with other planned developments, made Gilroy one of the Bay Area’s biggest cities—a sprawling urban mass of 120,000 residents, more than double the city’s population today.
Moratorium now – city doesn’t need land, it needs a better plan
Whoa, Nellie. Let's stop right now and place a moratorium on any
Recommendations on a dizzying array of props
Adizzying array of propositions appears on the ballot for
The influence of the crowd
There are a lot of very sweet, kind and hard-working people who live at Eagle Ridge. Of that, I have no doubt.












