Rabbi Mendel Liberow: How to create a violence-free world
In Uvalde, one person changed the world.
A single individual—whose motives remain unknown—chose to commit a heinous act, and young lives full of promise ended abruptly. Twenty-one people whose journeys were cut short. Seventeen more wounded. Families plunged into grief. All because of one evil...
Guest View: They aren’t invisible, we are just blind
Reading the back and forth over the discourse surrounding the Time Capsule is a worthwhile discussion. As a resident of Gilroy for a little more than a year (most of it inside) the first bit of exposure I had to the project was the...
From My Perspective: He is risen!
A fundamental foundation for Christian believers is commemorated on Easter Sunday (John 11:24-26). Jesus Christ’s resurrection follows 40 days of reflection, atonement, sacrifices and fasting that began on Ash Wednesday.
As I mentioned in the first “From My Perspective” column, I was raised Jewish, so...
Letter: Adapt to change
April 10, 2022 marks 30 years after a drunk driver hit me when I was 16 years old. I had a four-month-long coma, broken bones, paralysis and brain injuries. My gait and speech is not perfect, and I read lips. Years of therapy and...
Guest View: State keeps expanding school curricula while key subjects need improvement
Recently, the attorney general’s office completed paperwork for an initiative that, if qualified for the 2024 ballot and approved by voters, would require California’s nearly 6 million public school students to take a course in personal finance.
The proposal, by an organization called Californians for...
Letter: Bills force truckers off the road
In addition to inflation worsening our supply chains, the throttling of 70,000 owner-operator truckers by California's AB5 and AB2257 is one heck of a monkey wrench tossed into our gearbox.
I am a 1966 graduate of the Motor Carrier Fleet Safety Supervisor School at UC...
