Editorials

By declining to evaluate their progress on goals, trustees Peter

As law enforcement investigators continue their search for missing teen Sierra LaMar, day after day, week after week, hundreds of volunteers continue to show up to help in the efforts coordinated by the KlaasKids Foundation. They search, they organize fundraisers and they continue to get the word out. The outpouring of support is heartening, and unprecedented.

Proposed restrictions on residential hillside development are

This year's city council race features eight candidates, none of

Kudos all around in the case of the so-called speed trap along Monterey Road between Main and Wright avenues in Morgan Hill.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, which administers  transportation dollars for nine Bay Area counties, recommended recently that the proposed bullet train take a Pacheco Pass route rather than an Altamont Pass route.

Where's the local California Highway Patrol captain when local farmers need him? Where's the guy with the authority to step in and make some common sense decisions?

A deeply divided Morgan Hill School District Board of Trustees

What, exactly, are the priorities of our county government? When a family faces a budget crisis and plans belt-tightening, it does not cut from its basic needs: food, shelter, medical care. It cuts from vacation, kids' allowances, parties, extras. If Uncle Frank urges the family to invest in his rail scheme, they say, "We can't afford it." If they support dottie Auntie Jean's assisted living, they don't cut her off.

We think Lynch and its attorney, Bruce Tichinin, are aiming