Editorials

Once again, California voters are presented with a bevy of

Cheers to the Santa Clara Valley Water District board and employees who recently negotiated new contracts that will save the agency $7.7 million over the life of the three-year contracts. Starting in April 2012, employees will contribute 15 percent of their health care premiums and pay an increase of 1.1 percent to 11 percent of contributions toward the California Public Employees Retirement System. And, new employees who start after Jan. 1 2012 will earn a rate of 2 percent of their salary for retirement plans, multiplied by their years of service at the age of 60. Current employees maintain the 2.5 percent at the age of 55. Employees will also lose a paid holiday, reducing them to 12 per year. Sick leave payouts upon retirement are capped at 480, with a 50 percent rate of the equivalent cash value.

Sonny Perdue is a veterinarian, and a former governor of Georgia. He also is the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. He spent one day in the nation’s biggest agricultural state last week—California—presumably to show that the Trump Administration cares about and understands our state’s critical role in the U.S farm economy.

Open space. In a large part, that

Without enforcement, a law is merely a collection of meaningless

There is nothing quite like the sights and sounds and smells of

Seriously, folks. Considering raising taxes and cutting

Thorns to .... the out-of-town (San Diego) insurance company

Golf, like life, is replete with compromise. So it is with the

Kudos to San Martin residents Sylvia Hamilton and Bob Cerruti