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California’s homeless population remains the biggest in the nation, but the crisis is growing more slowly here than in most of the rest of the country, according to new federal data.  The number of homeless Californians increased just over 3% last year compared to the...

Good news for our California law enforcement: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in your favor! I applaud all our law enforcement officials who have pledged to obey our state law, SB 54.  This law, known as the California Values Act, also referred to as the Sanctuary...

There have been various bits of information and opinions in the news lately about changes coming to the real estate industry and what they mean for homebuyers and sellers. As a Santa Clara County Realtor and current president of the Santa Clara County Association of...

What do retired teachers mean to San Benito County? A lot!  After years, sometimes decades, in the classroom giving back to their students, retired teachers continue to give back to local communities through their pocketbooks and their passion for volunteerism.  The week of Nov. 3-9, 2024,...

On their last day in office, Dec. 3, 2024, the outgoing Mayor, Mia Casey, and her city council majority (Rick Perez, Dolores Morales and Tim Burns) approved a terrible General Plan. This Plan expands the city's “Sphere of Influence” by 3,000 acres into the...

Hollister HS Girls Cross Country Sophomore Prienna Chavez finished 10th at the CCS Division I finals on Nov. 16 on the Crystal Springs course in Belmont, and qualified for the CIF State meet at Woodward Park Fresno on Nov. 30.  In the Fresno race, which is...

Royston named to dean’s list Lilia Royston, of Hollister, was named to the Utah Tech University dean’s list for the fall 2024 semester. To qualify for the dean’s list, students had to attain a semester GPA of 3.5 to 3.89 and complete at least 15...

After waking up from their post-feast Thanksgiving slumber this week, local residents and families are invited by the Hollister Downtown Association to celebrate the holidays with the annual Lights On and Project Dec-A-Tree events.  The celebration starts with a full day’s schedule of activities at...

Re: Healthcare or Health Insurance Is it a horse or a zebra?, is a question we never ask because of evident stripes. But trying to identify healthcare from health insurance becomes more difficult because stripes are not easily identifiable.  Let’s make health insurance a zebra and...

Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital was recently targeted by an information security hoax in which the perpetrator demanded a ransom payment, hospital officials said in a statement.  The Hollister hospital received correspondence from a suspect or suspects suggesting that an outside party had gained access to...