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February 4, 2026

What does affordable health care mean for you?

President Obama signed historic health care legislation into law

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While hurtling through the air last week, 30,000 feet above the

Downtown will likely never be picturesque

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Time to act like Lions, not lambs

For almost a decade, the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders

Finding the perfect Halloween costume

Halloween is one of the most anxious times for kids.

$16 billion state deficit, watcha gonna do voters?

Let’s start right off the bat: Gov. Jerry Brown and his Band of Little Renown can take his more taxes plan and stuff it. I’m sick of the state government trying to bleed us dry, stealing tax money from our city government, closing down RDA entities to feed their spending habits and threatening the purse strings of our schools. The farther away the money gets, the less control we the taxpayers have over it.  Cut the state budget. Vote against every state incumbent, vote against every tax. Unfortunately, it’s at the point where I believe that’s what it’s going to take to shake the status quo up. California government is not serving us, the people who pay the taxes. California government, despite a $16 billion deficit, increases spending. Nobody in California has the guts to really wade in, apply common sense, accept the pain that goes with reality and change things. This quote, posted by OldMan64 on our website comment board, spoke volumes and, if the voters don’t do something drastic very soon, this state is going down the tubes. OldMan’s choice hammered it home: “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, ca. 1830. Vote them all out, vote against more taxes. Do it, and we might save our state and the American Republic.

Newest OSP makes for great hiking

We have the good fortune to live in a region where trails into the peace and serenity of open space are just moments from home. When I am asked for my favorite, it's tough to choose. There are just too many. But the Arrowhead Loop at South County's newest open space preserve is a top candidate.

“Just in Case”

When it comes to packing for vacation, there are two types of

A quiz: Are you hooked on the Gilroy Garlic Fest?

The 31st Gilroy Garlic Festival is fast approaching on July 24 -

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