Making New Year’s Resolutions Inspired by Gerald Ford
While 2006 was a year of great growth and learning for me, both personally and professionally, I am happy to see it go. It was a tough year for many locally as we struggled with the (in some cases, very) premature loss of some beloved members of our community due to malice or inattentiveness, and nationally, as we struggled through the loss and injury of soldiers involved in wars on two fronts that become ever more difficult to sustain, financially, practically, and morally.
Stop Playing Games with Classified Employees
Recent lapse in communication between school district and state
Land-use Restrictions Won’t Preserve Farm Land
Many people are passionate about preserving farming, and they try to achieve their goal with land-use restrictions that aim to keep parcels currently used for agriculture permanently used for that purpose. It's an expensive, primarily for the landowner, and ineffective effort.
Sweeping New Year’s Resolutions Under the Rug
There is definitely too much pressure on people to make meaningful New Year's resolutions these days. And it's always the same old stuff – massive, life-altering pledges guaranteed to consume your last drop of self-control: lose weight, spend less, save more, organize your home, stop (fill in the blank) drinking, smoking, driving in the carpool lane with an inflatable doll named "Greta."
Open Letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Pacheco Pass Highway from Gilroy to the Don Pacheco Y is a
Toughening of ‘Social Host’ Ordinance is Preventative Measure
My opportunities to observe the staff at Sobrato High School have shown me they are acutely aware of safety issues and really look out for the kids. In this school year alone that is barely half over, Principal Richard Knapp and his staff have interrupted a sexual predator trying to trick students, saved another from dying on campus from acute alcohol poisoning, and caught others who have been high or in possession of alcohol or narcotics. (And these are just what made the paper). When I think of what I need from an institution that educates my children, foremost is safety. From what I've seen, no private school could do better.
