Editorials

Thumbs up: For the Hollister Police officers and their use of restraint during a standoff at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital Tuesday. A 21-year-old man confronted his mother at the hospital, brandished a knife blade and advanced toward police officers while he tried to escape. The police subdued the man with non-lethal bean bags instead of bullets. Cool heads, calm cops, no needless fatalities – job well done.

In last week's column we discussed the alarming situation of the

Managers of the people's money - in the county's case, elected supervisors and top-level department heads - should keep their sharpest focus these days on the unit cost of employees.

Cheers for Gavilan College in Hollister

Cheers for Red Cross; jeers for daycare woes

Measure G isn't perfect. It does deserve support on the June ballot, though, because this community's high school students deserve a decent learning environment.

The news was sickening and the photograph on the front page of

With $540,000 to kick-start the process of building a

Thanks in large part to the foresight and sense of fairness of

San Juan Bautista’s City Council members have a legitimate gripe about uncivil residents who leave behind their dog droppings for others to pick up, but they are taking their concern too far – and showing their mixed priorities – by pursuing a punitive ordinance for residents who neglect their duty.