Spoking My Mind: Fine February favorites
Last month, I shared that 2025 would be my final year writing this column; after 25 years of Spoking My Mind, I felt it was time to hang up my helmet. (Let me clarify: I’ll stop bike writing, but never stop bike riding.) Thank...
Candidates Growing Smarter
With great pride we endorse these candidates for Gilroy City Council:
For the two-year seat, Carol Marques.
As a member of Gilroy Growing Smarter’s Executive Committee, Carol worked tirelessly to help pass Measure H in 2016. She will defend it by making sure any challenger will...
Spoking My Mind: Keeping cool when temps climb
To coin a cliché, hot enough for you? Sure, I’ve lived here long enough to know that some of the hottest days of 2024 have yet to hit us; still, we’ve already had our fair share of some terribly toasty temps.
You longtime readers know...
Owners of illegal marijuana dispensary force the city’s hand
Marijuana dispensary owners Neil Forrest and Batzi Kuborovich
$500 Savings Account for Every Child – Legal or Not – Has the World Gone Mad?
The Dispatch reported recently that there was a bill introduced













