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“Can (or more appropriately will) the city do something about the traffic lanes heading towards Christopher High School on Santa Teresa Boulevard? The problem starts at Longmeadow Drive all the way to East Day Road. There doesn’t appear to be efficient use of the existing pavement out there. There are hundreds of feet of wide, empty striped medians and/or shoulders while cars are backed up and trying to crowd into over-capacity lanes. Why?”

 The many negative stories represent aberrations, revealing nothing at all typical about public employees in California. But they have turned public opinion against civil servants so severely that it will be difficult to pass any of the current spate of tax increase proposals, no matter who might back them or bankroll them.

Shoot the bullet train. Period. End of story. Conceptually, a wonderful idea. That’s what the voters bought – the vision and the promise, a train speeding from San Francisco to Los Angeles with few stops and no airline hassles. The reality is a financial sink hole with a train stuck in the mud. The Gilroy City Council should have stuck to its guns and stayed on the no-confidence vote track. They should backtrack and quit spending time on a project that will be forever frozen in time.

“The city recently put a cheap chip seal coating on our street near Las Animas School. For those who don't know what this is, it's a low cost way of preserving pavement. It's a oil seal with small rocks that stick to it. Basically a mess. The problem is that it has now been a couple months and the small rocks are everywhere. And I mean everywhere, even in the garage and in our house. They have damaged some of our neighbors wood floors. We have called the city to come out and take a look at it and they say this is normal. I can't believe that after months have gone by that the rocks should still be coming up. Nobody in the neighborhood is happy about this and the part that still amazes me is that the streets are only nine years old and did not even need to be sealed. There are much worse streets in Gilroy.”

The one day in years that my husband doesn’t have to work on the day of the holiday parade, the one day that it isn’t rainy or freezing cold, the one day I actually have my act together enough to bring hot cocoa and sandwiches for the long haul: that’s the day the parade lasts 10 minutes?