California has key role in agriculture issues
Sonny Perdue is a veterinarian, and a former governor of Georgia. He also is the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. He spent one day in the nation’s biggest agricultural state last week—California—presumably to show that the Trump Administration cares about and understands our state’s critical...
Car show, downtown – a fine match
The thousands of people who attended last weekend's Garlic City
Our annual holiday poem
‘Twas the night before Christmas in Olde Gilroy
Not a latte was stirring, not even on 5th Street
Gold Toe at the Outlets awaited with stockings
St. Nicholas, sadly, was still Amazon shopping
Guerrero “The Ghost” had hung up his gloves,
But Gilroy football won and had gotten lots of love
So did...
Newsprint duties could hurt small newspapers
The printing press remains the symbol—despite the arrival of online news—of the Fourth Estate, of “Freedom of the Press.” That’s why for centuries one of the first acts of authoritarian rulers was to smash the printing presses of the opposition.
In 21st Century democracies, the...
Editorial: DA should investigate Gilroy Police lawsuit
If there’s one thing the salacious and damaging sex scandal lawsuit filed against the Gilroy police this month proves, it’s that we need more transparency in policing the police.
Simply measure Mark Dover against other candidates
Mark Dover's candidacy for City Council has been clouded by the
Editorial: Helping families heal after tragedy must be a community priority
When someone in our community is murdered, the pain reaches beyond the victim. It devastates families, close friends, neighbors and often the entire town. In the wake of such violence, our attention tends to focus on the police investigation or the court case. But...