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For an organization such as a school board to be successful it must be diligent in establishing clear objectives, it must strive to continuously improve and it must maintain ethical and legal standing in the community. The essential core or “heart” of such an...

As we recently celebrated our independence, it's important to

I have not written a column in a long time. Rather, I have spent months trying to understand what is happening with water in California. There are some who have made this a career, so I will not claim their level of specific expertise. Rather, I hope that you will follow along while I try to provide some perspective on the California Water problems as I see them.

Global warming. Regional response. Individual action. 

I had a good chuckle the other morning reading venerable Gilroy resident Bill Filice chastise the Dispatch's frequent flamer Alan Viarengo. It wasn't that I was glad he was taking Mr. Viarengo to task for things he's said in the past, and it wasn't the nice things he said about Mr. Viarengo's family (although they were nice).

It is a fact that two words still strike terror in my heart: Valentine's Day. This is not because I don't believe in love and hearts and all. It's just that every Feb. 14 I suffer unfortunate flashbacks to my grade-school days, which, truth be told, occurred lots of decades ago.

Jon Hatakeyama