Opinion

In a previous column, I detailed the rights and responsibilities

The Morgan Hill Unified School district is publicly discussing

My son started his first year of high school Tuesday, a few days after the results of the annual Back to School Survey conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. This year's report highlights a huge disconnect between parents and their high school age teens, with parents in denial over what their kids are facing when socializing at parties. Joseph Califano, Jr., the executive director, says the "self-delusion and lack of awareness of these parental palookas (sic) put their children at enormous risk of drinking and using illegal and prescription drugs."

South County residents get 100 percent of their drinking water from local groundwater sources. The Santa Clara Valley Water District knows how critical it is to keep this key source reliable. A new project under way in Morgan Hill will help do just that.

Well, the days are getting shorter, school has started, and

The notion that mental illness drives the current spate of mass shootings is a dangerous oversimplification. Some shooters, such as the Aurora. Col., movie theater gunman James Holmes, yes, have had diagnosed mental illness, while others have not. To unfairly stereotype people with conditions...

Veterans Day is Nov. 11. However, on Nov. 10, the United States Marine Corps celebrated its 232nd birthday, and since I served as a Marine machine gunner in the Korean War, and became a Marine Corps staff sergeant, and later authored the book, "We Claim the Title, Korean War Marines," please let me present my research from the Internet regarding praising the services. 

This Monday several parents of Machado School students and