Letter to the Editor: ‘Boondoggles Bonfire’
For Amtrak's 50th birthday, instead of lighting 50 candles, we ought to give recognition to the taxpayers and have one candle for each dollar in taxpayers' subsidies that have been paid to it.
Of course, then if we start that annual tribute, to be fair,...
Community Pulse: Raising campaign limits
Should the City Council raise the amount that can be spent on a
Letters: Apologies, explanations and a response to fence article
No one's essential. I never wrote that or said it. When I came
Guest View, Robert Weaver: The jobs/housing imbalance
For years, I have been railing against the so-called jobs/housing imbalance, believing that the underlying construction of the logic that forms this seemingly simple premise is fundamentally flawed. While there are several flaws in the jobs/housing imbalance premise, this discussion will be limited to...
How about a (real) animal birthday party?
There she was—my tiny kid—face to face with a bird of prey. She was over the moon happy about it too—she’s crazy about raptors. So I knew I had made the right choice when faced with planning with her January birthday.
Letters: Unintended consequences of Gilroy’s ‘shovel-ready’ project policy
Sometimes even the best intentions have unintended consequences.
Letter: Smoke-free dining should be next step
As a child, were you ever the kind of kid to scrunch their nose, and sniff haughtily as you passed by an unbothered smoker? Well, you did this for good reason—other than just despising the smell. My name is Anagha Dogiparthi, and I am...














