Opinion

This is an open letter to the community of Morgan Hill asking

'I Hate Hamlet' Truly Enjoyable

San Francisco is a city of marvelous churches, but the most grand receive the majority of attention. Places like the Gothic-style Grace (Episcopal) Cathedral on Nob Hill, the modernistic St. Mary of the Assumption (Roman Catholic) Cathedral on Cathedral Hill or the golden onion-domed Holy Virgin (Russian Orthodox) Cathedral on Geary Street in the Sunset District are widely known and visited.

Twenty five years after just running around on a soccer pitch Sunday morning with county employees and after years of working closely with county departments and listening constantly to words like "can't" "why bother" and other such terms that aren't conducive to meaningful change, I have ideas for Pete Kutras on how to shave money from the county budget this year, and it's not looking at non-mandated service, because the preponderance of evidence shows that if county residents don't have access to many of the non-mandated services, we will have more people clogging the mandated systems: county emergency rooms and jails, and the streets.

Recently, headlines in this newspaper recounted stories of high schoolers partying with liquor at parents homes. Now, the Morgan Hill City Council wants a stronger "social host" law to fine an adult who hosts a party with three or more underage revelers drinking alcohol.

Our 1-year-old kitten, Charlie, has a swollen cheek. It's been

So, how does it feel to be in a new fiscal year?

On the occasion of my 25th wedding anniversary a few years ago, it dawned on me that I had been married to my husband for fully half my life. That realization floored me. My life as a carefree child and teenager seemed to stretch for eons, while our marriage still seemed so new. The year we married, 1982, the U.S. divorce rate was about 50 percent. According to Wikipedia, the current divorce rate is now about 53 percent.

Think back to your fondest Christmas morning memory