Trustees make a poor decision on superintendent’s 12K bonus
The intentions were good. In fact, Superintendent Debbie Flores
A city attorney dedicated to Gilroy
Making a switch to hire an in-house city attorney – and putting the days of city reliance on a huge San Jose-based law firm, Berliner-Cohen – has the potential to be a very good thing for Gilroy.
Cheers and Jeers: Dark-hearted and disturbed vandals without character
JEERS for the vandals who defiled the chapel at St. Mary's
Yawning city budget gap should be carefully assessed and addressed
The new city manager, Tom Haglund, and the City Council have
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.










