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March 29, 2026

Guest column: Schools superintendent makes the case for Measure E

At this time, we’re housing our children in school buildings where their own parents attended classes 30 or 40 years ago. The average age of schools in the Gilroy Unified School District is 30 years old and five schools are more than 50 years old. The District has taken great care of the schools but they need to be renovated and rebuilt.

Letter to the Editor: The Electoral College is a wake up call

My office has served the Gilroy community for over 100 years, 40 of them under my watch. Combative politics and modern technology has caused the principles of our republic, specifically the electoral college, to be lost.  Our republic was formed by rural states and populous...

Anyone who disagrees is a ‘girlie-man’

Petulance. That's the only word to describe the behavior of Gov.

Letter: Choose hydrogen over oil

Why not hydrogen fueled motors? Go away with oil derived fuels. Produce hydrogen fuel by splitting water (H2O) into hydrogen and oxygen. When hydrogen burns, it’s converted into water vapors. Donald Perino Gilroy

Letter: Transforming Gilroy

On Jan. 17, 1984, my wife and I moved from our “small” house in South San Jose to Gilroy with our then-3-year-old son, with another on the way. Before getting married, my wife lived with her family in Saratoga and I grew up in San...

Community Pulse: Cut free school bus service next year?

Should the school district, facing budget cuts, charge full

It’s Time for Defiance Not Compliance

I graduated high school in New York State, long before the days of exit exams. In New York, there were two types of diplomas you could receive upon graduation, the standard diploma or the Regents diploma. My school required that all graduates must pass the Regents exams and receive a Regents diploma, and so every member of my class did just that. My parents knew the requirements going in, and I and my classmates knew those requirements, and so we followed the rules and successfully graduated.

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