Letters

This week (Free Lance, Sept. 4 edition) Joe Heller’s opinion page cartoon seems vacant as it depicts a multi-labeled coat simply identified as “Dolly” hung on a hollow space. However that emptiness immediately filled with visions of radiant smiles, pompadour blonde hair rhythmically motioned...

Open letter to Mayor Mark Turner and Members of the City Council: I am writing as a resident of Morgan Hill to formally request that the City Council place an item on the agenda for the next regular open public meeting to discuss and vote...

The ongoing debate surrounding mountain lion population is driven by a massive shift in the language used to describe the issue. If we look back to the March 13, 2004 edition of Morgan Hill Times, Fish and Wildlife Lt. Dave Fox explicitly stated that mountain...

I am pleased that residents are challenging the behavior of Morgan Hill City Council. The Council needs to assert its independence and understand that the California Open Meeting (aka Brown) Act consists of guidelines and minimums rather than absolutes and maximums.  The Brown Act allows—in...

Sometimes the most meaningful stories begin with a simple conversation and a belief that something greater is possible. Seven months ago, I had a vision: to bring California’s community college presidents together at Santa Clara University with a shared purpose, to celebrate educational opportunity, strengthen...

Reading the Morgan Hill Times’ July 16 editorial criticizing the Morgan Hill City Council’s lack of transparency, I couldn’t help but think the paper was focusing on the wrong public agency. The far more serious transparency crisis is unfolding at the Morgan Hill Unified...

Immigrants, children and American citizens are rounded up and put into jails.  Trump calls them “detention centers,” for the Japanese Americans in 1942 they were called “assembly centers,” in Hitler’s Germany they were “ghettos.”  The Gilroy Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League is TOTALLY opposed...

Mayor Mark Turner has kicked off his reelection campaign with the slogan, “It Matters Who Leads!” On that point, we agree completely. It does matter who leads. It matters because leadership isn’t measured by campaign slogans, ribbon cuttings or carefully staged photo opportunities. It’s measured...

Re: Joe Heller cartoon, Free Lance, July 10. The smile on the beak of the stork transmits the purpose of the fly-over of the Capitol by the stork while depositing the standard “bird droppings” smiling about his delivery. The point of his beak bringing a...

The California Legislature’s failure to act has effectively ended many targeted goat grazing businesses that provide critical wildfire prevention services throughout California. As a result of the new labor requirements, our company is now required to pay each of our goat herders an annual wage...