Opinion

Every day, Santa County County employees work hard to provide “Real Life Help” for our nearly 2 million residents. Many of the county’s vital services go unnoticed and unseen. Here are a few highlights from the past 12 months that we accomplished on the...

When convicted criminals thumb their noses at the mercy shown by

The major streets of Gilroy are turning into a third-world grid of potholes, gullies and fissures that continues to get worse after every storm, and it appears NOBODY in city government is not only not doing anything about it, but apparently does not care. Why is our City Council not doing anything about it? It seems to me the Dispatch could make a lot of Gilroy residents very happy to spearhead an effort to find out WHY the streets have been so neglected (besides the age-old excuses of ‘no money’) and WHY our local government refuses to keep us posted on their plans to fix it. How about an editorial addressing this problem?

Clearly, area politicians and South Valley residents must reject

Last fall, I wrote a column about salaries and discipline in

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Dear Editor,

Dear Editor,