Letters

As a teacher at Britton Middle School from 1998 through December 2015, I understand the value of a school bond. During that time, I knew exactly where to place the trash cans to catch the drips from the leaking ceiling whenever it rained.  Frequently, my...

I attended the school board’s most recent meeting at the Morgan Hill Unified School District office and do not agree that there was no community engagement. And I want to share what I experienced in attendance with my 16-year-old high school student from Live...

Nga Dinh's May 29 Guest View, “Did MHUSD violate open-meeting laws?” raises important questions about transparency and public participation. Those questions deserve thoughtful consideration. However, the article’s conclusions rely more on assumptions than on the facts presented.  The article’s central claim is that parents were...

Dear Superintendent Garcia, President Horner and Vice President Northrup-Gadus, As you know, the proposed bond measure resolution discussed late Thursday night, May 28, received only three affirmative votes. Five votes were required for approval.  Several of your trustee colleagues correctly observed that the district had not...

Regarding “Guest View: Did MHUSD violate open meeting laws?” published in the May 29 edition of the Times: Governing and operating a public agency is not as easy as most folks want to believe.  We would all want the opportunity to play “DOGE” for a...

Fifteen years ago, my husband, Steve, and I purchased our first home in Morgan Hill. With housing prices what they were, we hadn’t thought homeownership was possible for us and our five young children.  We made it happen, though, by purchasing our home affordably through...

Public trust in government depends on a basic expectation: officials entrusted with public authority must conduct community business openly and provide the public a meaningful opportunity to participate before important decisions are made. That principle is central to growing concerns surrounding the March 12 Morgan...

I recently organized a show that was held at the Gilroy Center For the Arts, based on the fentanyl crisis and the artistic, creative expressions of grief from the families impacted by it. I cannot speak highly enough of Marianne and her staff. She welcomed...

In my last letter, I used conservative data from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to argue that mountain lion populations are exceeding sustainable levels. But the issue isn’t just mathematical—it’s behavioral. If mountain lions were truly threatened by low population numbers, we would...

Every year around tax time, I come home from a long shift, still in scrubs, and sit down with my pay stubs, trying to make the numbers work. Like most people, I don't have fancy accountants or complicated investments—just a paycheck that gets taxed...