Opinion

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...

A city is more than its roads, buildings and parking lots. It is also the places, images and creative touches that make residents stop, look and say, “That’s Morgan Hill.” Take a walk around town and you’ll find plenty of examples. Our 12-foot tarantula sculpture...

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...

California could soon receive as much as $2.1 billion from Meta as part of a settlement over allegations that Facebook and Instagram were designed in ways that harmed children and teens. That is an enormous amount of money—and an enormous opportunity. The proposed settlement calls for...

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...

As the leaves begin to turn and neighborhoods across Santa Clara County welcome a much-needed October breeze, I am honored to be rolling out a picnic blanket for our entire community!  I hope you, your friends, families and neighbors from across the 15th Senate District...

No one wants a data center in their backyard. Data centers consume a massive amount of electricity and water, they are loud, and, if you would absolutely never buy a home situated under high-power lines, you would just love living next to a data...

This week (Free Lance, Sept. 4 edition) Joe Heller’s opinion page cartoon seems vacant as it depicts a multi-labeled coat simply identified as “Dolly” hung on a hollow space. However that emptiness immediately filled with visions of radiant smiles, pompadour blonde hair rhythmically motioned...