Opinion

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,...

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...

Although Santa Clara County is facing a drought, flooding remains a threat to many of our communities. The last drought was followed by one of the wettest winters on record. Climate change has made extreme weather the new normal. Valley Water remains committed to keeping...

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...

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...

After time with the criminal justice system in 2010, I experienced the job rejection that many like myself deal with upon re-entering the workforce. While I was more than qualified for job after job, as soon as they saw the box checked for a...

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...

California, like much of the West, is facing a year of extreme drought which is causing some issues for residential water wells across the state. Water wells are a reliable, affordable, and safe source of water for over a million California residents and when...

If Bay Area housing stakeholders are to ever address factors that have led to construction delays and the rise in costs for constructing desperately needed housing, we must delve deeper into how a well-intentioned law has inadvertently led to difficulty in producing sufficient housing....

It’s now late May 2021 and it definitely feels like the tide is finally turning against the invisible beast that has held us hostage and changed our lives for over a year. Right now the County of Santa Clara is stating that 85.7% of Morgan...