Dear Editor, Downtown Morgan Hill is exactly what the merchants
say, Monterey Road from First to Third streets. Moving the Friday
Night Music Series is about the dumbest thing the Chamber of
Commerce can do. If you are not starting major renovations to
downtown for some time, why the music? Moving it to the Community
and Cultural Center is just plain selfish. The center is a
beautiful place and you already have many things going on
there.
Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce, it’s time to wake up
Dear Editor,
Downtown Morgan Hill is exactly what the merchants say, Monterey Road from First to Third streets. Moving the Friday Night Music Series is about the dumbest thing the Chamber of Commerce can do. If you are not starting major renovations to downtown for some time, why the music? Moving it to the Community and Cultural Center is just plain selfish. The center is a beautiful place and you already have many things going on there.
But the music should be at the core of downtown, near restaurants and shops, so those listening to the music can browse, eat or whatever while the music is playing.
Why would someone walk away from the music at the community center to eat and shop and not be able to hear the music? The music on Second Street is, and has been, a great event on Friday nights for the past 16 years. Why change something when it already works? I continue to see a limited few in a city make changes that are not for the best. They do not consider what the people want, only what they want. Morgan Hill has many fun, family-oriented events. Let the music stay where it is. Change is not always for the better, and this is one change that is definitely for the worse. If this type of thing keeps up, what is next? Moving Mushroom Mardi Gras, or the Taste of Morgan Hill, or the Fourth of July Parade? What are you all thinking?
Remember the saying, “Don’t change it if it works.”
Patricia Peterson, Morgan Hill
Around the Water Cooler should be of more local interest
Dear Editor,
I guess you want to have your Around the Water Cooler questions deal with questions of national interest. If that is your choice, then I think you should get people who exhibit a wider knowledge of the topics.
Just as with the question about President Obama’s initiative to Russia about Iran and the missile defense system, the responses concerning the GM CEO firing are laden with emotion rather than clear thinking. Not one respondent brought the issue of the constitutionality of a U.S. President making a decision about the leadership of a private (stockholder owned) company. Of course, you can get any number of opinions on a legal topic such as the constitutionality of a government action, but asking the question is obvious. Do your respondents not know or understand the Constitution, or is it that they don’t care? Especially in a week when our president is acting like a demagogue in Europe, degrading our country to Europeans, it is all the more important that we keep a watchful eye on the constitutionality of the actions of this government, as we should do with any government.
It is a shame that the government has put the board of directors of General Motors in a position of cowering to the demands of a government that is going out of control. The board of directors should be challenging this government action in the federal courts. If the Morgan Hill Times has such an interest in national affairs, why aren’t you investigating why no one who has standing to do so, is challenging the constitutionality of the bailouts and the Stimulus Bill.
Honestly, I think your Water Cooler respondents would do a better service to the community by opining on matters of local interest. For example, the effort to move the Friday Night Music Series out of downtown is of great local interest, and the city leaders who serve as your respondents would do the community a great service by airing their opinions Around the Water Cooler. They would have more credibility, and your paper would be providing a service to the community.
That’s my opinion.
Peter Jensen, Morgan Hill
