Letters

I’ve been watching this year’s elections and quite frankly, I think things look pretty messed up locally with so much political intraparty bickering. Local political clubs have been weighing in so you may see a lot about candidates that only meet the litmus test...

It has been reported that Steven Hayes’ official Facebook candidate page for Morgan Hill City Council District B has banned community members for asking questions and deleted citizens’ comments. Mayor Mark Turner, Hayes’ mentor, has faced similar criticism over comment deletion and blocking on...

In her Oct. 7, letter to the Times, “Morgan Hill Deserves Better on the City Council,” Swanee Edwards wants Morgan Hill District B’s voters to believe that the City Council is dysfunctional and that Yvonne Martínez Beltrán is the cause. Yet Edwards fails to...

I am writing today to address an integral piece of our local and national discourse: the debate over data centers. I am writing to challenge a recent letter I read in the local newspaper: “Nobody wants a data center in their backyard” (Sept. 8,...

​State mountain lion management policies leave rural residents, livestock managers and pet owners stripped of practical defenses. Under current laws, property owners must endure repeated livestock or pet losses under a rigid “three strike” model before qualifying for state assistance.  Mountain lions will often kill...

I have lived in Morgan Hill for nearly 40 years, and have participated in City Council meetings over the years as well. I became a campaign treasurer and manager for a number of local campaigns beginning with the election of Former Mayor Dennis Kennedy.  I...

I believe candidates for public office owe their communities something very basic: accurate information. That is why I was troubled reading Marilyn Librers’ recent candidate statement (Morgan Hill Times, Sept. 25), particularly the assertions about Morgan Hill’s history and her own experience. Librers writes that when...

The Joe Heller cartoon of Sept. 18 (Opinion page) portrays an AI robot angered by dire warnings of disaster followed by a robotic smile when congress smiles regulation. Apparently the robot recalls how the same warnings were used to scare people with nuclear annihilation...

I’m addressing this “pet peeve” — pun intended — to all dog owners in Morgan Hill who somehow believe it’s perfectly acceptable to let their dogs poop on public sidewalks, where the rest of us have to dodge their deposits. Almost equally frustrating are dog...

Fact-checking Hollister Free Lance; fact-checking Gilroy Dispatch; fact-checking Morgan Hill Times? About those articles that you published about transit having a “balanced budget,” so claimed by the Gilroy City Councilman/VTA Public Sector Transit Advocate. Are you going to let them make such false statements?  Moreover, make...