Opinion

Weddings! You gotta love 'em. As we daintily dab our eyes with hankies, the blushing bride breathlessly glides down the aisle to her handsome groom. Gazing adoringly into one another's eyes, they vow affinity one to the other into eternity. Promising to love one another in good times and in bad, in sickness and ….Whoooooa, Nellie!

I find it ironic that Morgan Hill City Councilman Greg Sellers disparagingly cited a Republican tactic – repeating something often enough until people believe it; Sellers mentioned WMDs – that he alleged Redevelopment Agency critics employ, and then used another of President Bush's favorite tactics himself.

Reopen Dayworker Center for health and safety reasons

Morgan Hill is about to join big and expensive metropolitan areas with its obscene home prices. That's a shame. With the impending seven-digit home prices will come the same ailments faced by bigger cities such as an eventual exodus of a young workforce unfortunately priced out of the city.

The rain shouldn't fool us. It's spring; proms are upon us; graduation is coming very soon; and the carefree days of summer are just around the corner. Last year's debacle in Monterey for some Live Oak students should be very much on our minds as we see our teens head out for some of the most memorable evenings of their lives.

"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties." ~ Elia Kazan

You couldn't miss all the hoopla last week surrounding the 100th anniversary of the "Big One" – the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. I don't know about you, but on April 18 I treaded lightly, not wishing to initiate a repeat performance.

to the United States Geological Survey, there is a 62 percent chance that a 6.7-or -greater earthquake will hit the Bay Area between now and 2032. Are you ready?

At 75 years old and after raising six children, my wife and I are blessed only with one granddaughter and one grandson. Few of our children have married. Is this a trend in our society, today? 

In politics, it's becoming commonplace to repeat the same thing over and over again until everyone believes it's true, even if it's not. We've seen this phenomenon on the national level (repeat after me: WMDs), and we're seeing it on the local level in recent articles and editorials concerning the RDA.