Opinion

Dear Editor,

Vote no on the county's half-cent sales tax measure

Dear Editor,

Dear Editor,

On May 14, we celebrate Mother's Day, a nostalgic time for me, a septuagenarian.

Don't you love the way you're blissfully drifting along, minding your own business, when suddenly an important new study says you're about to die because you've eaten movie popcorn, inhaled second-hand cigarette smoke or ingested mother's milk? Well, technically the mother's milk is probably not applicable since the last time you ingested mother's milk you were probably too young to be reading studies. But you get my point.

Everyone talks about saving agriculture, but the truth is that

In this year's elections, we will be asked to approve bond issues, parcel taxes, new taxes or tax increases to pay for our schools, our transportation and likely for our city services.

Am I the only person who misses the Saratoga Horticultural Research Foundation? I'm not even sure what happened to my favorite source for quirky plants and expert advice, but I wish they were still around.

High prices wreck our economic climate, and the increases really