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Mitt Romney has recently taken every opportunity to blame the President for the high price of gasoline; for a man with so many vehicles that he is building an car elevator in one of his four houses to store them more efficiently I am sure this is a source of great stress on his personal finances. Since there is no sign that gas prices will be plummeting any time soon we can expect this accusation to continue throughout the campaign.

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In my Christmas column last year, I wrote about my family's Christmas Eve menu and how it changed when I began hosting duties. I shared the recipes for Decadent Hot Chocolate and Spiced Apple Cider. I also mentioned one other item on the menu called sfingi. This week, I describe what it is and share the recipe.

It rained steadily in Morgan Hill on the morning of Feb. 6. As a

I love summertime when the weather calls for relaxing on the patio with friends, sipping a chilled glass of wine and watching families of hummingbirds at the feeder.

It has been said that lightning does not strike twice in the same place. In the case of Cirque du Soleil's dazzling and glorious “Totem,” it may not have struck the same place, but moved its trademark blue and gold Grand Chapiteau from San Francisco to the Taylor Street Bridge in San Jose, along with its stunning production that defies the imagination.

While shopping over the holidays, I ran into an old friend. "It's great to see you, but you're literally half the person I remember," I told her. She had dramatically lost weight, having recently undergone a gastric bypass - a stomach stapling surgery performed on obese people to rapidly lose weight.

Elementary schools in the Gilroy Unified School District

Are you someone who enjoys contributing to large efforts? Are you looking for an easy, low-commitment opportunity to improve Morgan Hill? If so, come one, come all because May 19 is City Beautification Day. This is your opportunity to beautify our town.

After the tragic shootings at a Sikh temple in Illinois earlier this month, many people seem to have questions about this religion. Sikh men are often confused with Muslims because they both often have facial hair and wear turbans. Although Sikhism is a major world faith (20 million members, at least 250,000 in California, including more than 50,000 in the Bay Area), most people may not know much about this faith.