City: Staff is reminded to minimize irrigation runoff
Dear Red Phone, “Here we are in this drought and the City of Gilroy is overwatering one part and at Las Animas Park they've had a leak for three months. You can just see this big puddle of water just to the east of the tennis courts. There's a road the city workers drive on and there's a lake. C'mon, they don't care. At El Roble Park there's a couple of paths and they're almost unwalkable due to overwatering. We're supposed to cut back and they're overwatering. I'm ripping out my lawn so I don't have to water, and they’re going nuts. Thank you.”
NCAA: UConn wins national championship without any style points
It was a game for the record book but not the video library, as
Restoring the Delta is essential to Santa Clara County
The Delta is a critical component of our water system. Here in the Silicon Valley, 40 percent of our water supply passes through the Delta. Our imported water comes from the Sierra Nevada snowmelt and rainfall that fills rivers and streams that flow toward the San Francisco Bay. Much of that mountain water flows through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to communities throughout the Bay Area.
Lincoln reminds us of American inventiveness
Abraham Lincoln never visited Silicon Valley, but he would no doubt appreciate the spirit of innovation and ingenuity that exists in our global high-tech epicenter. Lincoln, whose birth date is Sunday, happens to be the only U.S. president who ever received an invention patent. That fact leads me to believe he would have a word or two to say to many of today's politicians who are now thwarting efforts to upgrade America's patenting system .
