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The Veterans Day celebrations honoring those who served this country will continue after the parade ends Tuesday afternoon.

For Hollister residents, the commute to Monterey County and the route to flea markets at the iconic Red Barn off Highway 101 just got safer.

Mickie Solorio Luna looks to be pulling out the race to become the next District 2 council member in Hollister, according to unofficial results released Friday afternoon.

Retired San Benito High School Principal Tim Shellito believes the victory for supporters of Measure J – set to ban all enhanced petroleum extraction countywide – shows that “John Q. Public” is alive.

Both city and county voters are headed toward rejecting separate proposals to increase the hotel tax from 8 percent to 12 percent in the area, according to early election results.

The more millions they fork out for advertising percussion, shows the more they're planning an oil invasion! If they didn't have the reputation of causing mutilation this race wouldn't take place.  

The latest television ads bought by the oil companies against Measure J really disturbed us. A man says he is an employee of a "local" oil business, speaks with an accent and claims that Measure J will leave him unemployed. But, according to the president of the local oil business Steve Coombs, of Patriot Resources, who described their oil recovery process to my husband and others at a meeting he attended; none of those practices that are currently being used would be banned by Measure J. Steve described needing to use acid to clean scale off an existing Class II injection well used for water flooding and waste water injection and to use acid to break up drilling mud in new well borers. These methods of acid used in well maintenance would not be banned by Measure J.

What I’ve noticed in this campaign blitz to defeat “Yes on Measure J” (because it’s obvious) is that there are several propaganda tactics being used by the No on J coalition to manipulate public opinion. The most obvious and insidious one is:

Local leadership on Measure J has been disappointing. Some local leaders say they support Measure J and some say they don't. And some don't have anything to say at all. Most are afraid that “fracking” is too controversial a subject to waste time on because of the negative social connotation the word conjures, even though fracking isn't proposed here in San Benito County.

There are about the same number of local school contests as in prior years but more candidates – and contests – for the special and city office races.