Marijuana 101, a class on chaos and conflicting messages
The marijuana issue has so many tentacles. There's AB 390, a
Our representatives have really let us down
Redistricting, filled with the poison of political protection,
Letters: John Hirokawa for Sheriff
Honesty. Integrity. Transparency. None of these words appeared in this newspaper’s May 3 editorial. In their place, Laurie Smith is referenced fourteen times. No other phrase appears more often, not even close.
Nowhere in the editorial did this newspaper mention John Hirokawa’s nearly four decades...
Letter: Standing up for your rights poses dilemma
Since Jan. 20, I have searched for information that could help people who are vulnerable to ICE questioning or worse—detention. Why? Because I have a permanent tan myself—one I used to be grateful for and now one that leads me to worry.
We know now...
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.
A salute to GUSD’s incremental victories
There is plenty being written on these pages about what ails the











