Times Leadership Accountability Project Needs Improvement
The Morgan Hill Times is undertaking a new "Accountability in Community Leadership Project" in 2007. The newspaper is implementing the project by capturing the goals of community leaders and having its readers, members of its editorial board and elected officials grade goal accomplishment.
May 17 – Trade in Four Wheels for Two
On May 17, we have a choice - We can burn carbs, or carbon. Join
Affordable Health Care for All is an Achievable Goal
One of the remarkable failures of our time is our inability to
Supe’s Priority is Clean, Safe and Orderly Learning Environment
Spring has arrived and we are well into the second half of our school year. I thought it would be an appropriate time to give the community an update on "what's been happening" in the Morgan Hill Unified School District over the past 20 months and what to expect in the near future.
Traffic Tie-ups – Time for Talk and Action
On Feb. 14 - Valentine's Day - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed me to the nine-member California Transportation Commission, a four-year term of part-time citizen service that began on March 1. Appropriately, I view this as a labor of love.Â
Road Trip Leads to Satellite Radio Fatigue
Recently it's come to my attention that married couples who go on road trips together are testing the outer limits of their marriage vows. My spouse and I take four or five road trips a year, and we pretty much run out of tantalizing conversation somewhere around, oh ... Milpitas.
How Can We Make a Difference in Educating Our Children?
How can we help make our teachers' jobs easier and more fulfilling and our students' learning more adequate to face the challenges of the 21st century? These children will have to be creative thinkers, comfortable and savvy with technology, knowledgeable of the world and effective communicators.
Helping Organize SV Puzzle Day Brings Out True Volunteer Spirit
"Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that it's done above and beyond earning a living and deals with what people really care passionately about. Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions start with volunteers."
Celebrities Gone Wild – Media Madness Follows
So here's what I think happened, and just trust me on this because it's a real breakthrough: On New Year's Eve, while everybody was celebrating the arrival of 2007 by consuming copious amounts of "spirits" and producing huge rackets with their noisemakers, Earth was walloped by a large meteorite from the planet "Sleazy and Bizarre Behavior." Tragically, cheerful party-goers were so occupied slurping down liquid merriment concocted from the book of "Bartender's Easy Entertainment Tips" that they missed the disaster entirely. Because how else can we explain all of these off-the-wall altered states of goings-on?
