Opinion

Mitt Romney has recently taken every opportunity to blame the President for the high price of gasoline; for a man with so many vehicles that he is building an car elevator in one of his four houses to store them more efficiently I am sure this is a source of great stress on his personal finances. Since there is no sign that gas prices will be plummeting any time soon we can expect this accusation to continue throughout the campaign.

For more than two decades, hundreds of residents and avid hikers looked forward to the annual trek up El Toro mountain, known to longtime residents as Murphy’s Peak. But, the threat of a lawsuit has curtailed the hike for the second consecutive year.

In 1871, Ulysses S. Grant was president of a country still recovering from a horrendous Civil War, and Chicago suffered a Great Fire that left 90,000 people homeless. Meanwhile, in Gilroy, St. Mary School opened its doors to provide for the children of South Santa Clara County a high-quality education grounded in Catholic values.

‘Of Mice and Men’

As the world marks the centennial of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, my own thoughts recall an ordinary object – a toothbrush salvaged from the debris field surrounding the rusting hull of the great oceanliner that found its final resting place two miles below the Atlantic’s surface.

Despite persistent delusions that it retains plenty of influence, the California Republican Party is in increasing danger of descending into third place among party registration choices of California voters.