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Morgan Hill
March 10, 2026

Guest view: Mayor’s State of the City address

Great communities like Morgan Hill do not happen by chance. It takes good planning, vision, and fortitude to achieve greatness.

Guest view: Support music in our schools this month

The month of March offers us the opportunity to acknowledge the unique benefits of music education through the celebration of “Music in our Schools Month.”

Letter: A visit to the Nowhere Train

Driving along Avenue 12 in Madera and then passing the future intersections at Avenue 11, there are structures but the connections are nowhere in sight. They are abandoned and not properly secured as links in the future construction.

Black Hole Bullet Train

Well of course we understand why those who reap the money from the ill-advised Supermassive Black Hole Bullet Train keep on rolling, churning up work to justify their salaries, etc., but why do local leaders allow the taxpayers to be abused by them? Who...

Letter: Referendum is your constitutional right

I only wish to see our democratic process respected, and not frustrated by a developer who cares more about making money, and hired teams of people to interfere with that process.

Letter: Petition only serves a single special interest

While Panwala asserts that the city is interfering with the right to referendum, it is actually Panwala and his coalition who are exploiting the referendum process for the benefit of one family at the expense of the residents and voters of Morgan Hill.

Letter: Don’t sign Madrone petition

I’ve asked through social media that citizens not sign the petition and am repeating that request here. Please support our city’s economic development direction to achieve much needed increased revenues (from visitors, not from us!) and allow the construction to go forward in a timely manner.

Slower high-speed rail?

It sounds crazy, but a presidential rant on Twitter may have forced Gov. Gavin Newsom to “clarify”—actually, backtrack—his position on California’s high-speed rail. “The project, as currently planned, would cost too much and take too long,” the governor said of the state’s high-speed rail plan...

Guest view: City hasn’t learned on hotel issue

The email falsely claims that the city would lose revenue if voters exercised their constitutional rights. Tobin’s prediction assumes that Morgan Hill will gain an average of 130 new guests a day just because we have two new hotels.

Guest view: Hotels are good for the economy

By Mayor Rich Constantine Over the past week, there has been much back-and-forth and misguided information on social media regarding the city council’s decision to approve the land use for two hotels in the Madrone Village Shopping Center. Because of this, I thought it was...

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