Opinion

Our View: For Supervisor Don Gage who is now behind the effort

Dear Editor:

Jeers for Councilman and mayoral candidate Peter Arellano who threw a tantrum and stormed out of a City Council meeting Monday night after coming out on the short end of a 4-1 vote. Our local elected officials have to have thick skin and possess the judgment to know what battles to pick and when to let go. Those attributes are especially valuable when the going gets a little rough. And those skills are absolutely necessary for the next mayor who has the unenviable task of “putting Humpty Dumpty” back together again. The Council is fractured and listless. This is just the latest example – and a really bad one from someone who says he’s ready to lead the city?

A large and disparate web of friendship trembled last week at

Dear Editor, Between the lines of the Dispatch story published

DEAR EDITOR:

Dear Editor,

Dear Editor,

"It's time for a round-up of recent local news items that made me shake my head, roll my eyes and utter a two-syllable "Puh-lease."