Letter: City should abandon Monterey Rd. lane reduction plan
The Morgan Hill City Council needs to abandon the effort to narrow Monterey Road in the downtown area.
Among many problems, it is unsafe and creates a parking shortage. On Saturday, Nov. 27, my wife and I decided to go to a restaurant downtown for...
Letter to the editor: Leave Monterey Road alone
The case for leaving Monterey Road alone
In May 2021, the Morgan Hill City Council voted to reduce the downtown road lanes on Monterey Road (from East Dunne Avenue to Main Avenue) from two lanes each way to one lane each way. The narrative given...
Letter: Empty reservoir is not Valley Water’s fault
I am a Valley Water Ambassador for District 1, here in South County. I would like to make a statement for the record about who is responsible for draining Anderson Dam.
On Feb. 20, 2020, Valley Water received a letter from Ms. Sharon Tapia, Chief...
Letter: Morgan Hill not as safe as it used to be
What happened to the small farm-town that we all knew and grew to love, the town where there was only one high school and everyone knew each other? The small town of Morgan Hill is now experiencing shootings (Police: Man killed in Gilroy shootout...
Letter: More development could damage our water system
An only child and an only grandchild my summers were spent at my grandparent’s avocado and lemon ranch in Carpinteria. It was the late ‘50s and early ‘60s when the California water projects were in full swing and my grandfather, Cliffford “Brad” Bradbury, a...
Letters to the editor: Measure your landscape irrigation needs
No more gigantic warehouses
Morgan Hill City Council (MHCC) passed an ordinance banning distribution centers. Then they approved Redwood Tech at 101 (RT@101), with over 10 football fields of warehouse space with loading docks. A project of equal size, Butterfield Technology Park, was also approved,...
Letter to the editor: Keep trees alive
As we turn our focus to the local effects of the drought, I have seen many browning lawns. One of the things that I am also seeing is stressed and dying trees. In many cases the only water available to trees in the landscape...
Letter: Vaccines become more crucial as variant spreads
What is the “Delta variant" you have been hearing so much about in the news? All living organisms have the capacity to mutate for survival and some more than others. Mutation is one of the key biologic mechanisms used by microorganisms for their survival.
Sars-CoV-2...
Letter: Virus thrives on ignorance
I have a sign on the back window of my truck that says “stupidity is curable.” After reading Greg Thomas’s letter (Downtown propaganda is ‘newspeak’) in the July 16 Morgan Hill Times, maybe I am wrong.
He and others like him are the reason that...
Letter to the editor: Downtown propaganda is ‘newspeak’
A recent visit to a downtown coffee shop occasioned an encounter with a poster by Choose Morgan Hill that declared, “Stand Together By Standing 6 Ft Apart.” This is a deeply disturbing example of cognitively dissonant propaganda, to say nothing of a textbook example...
