Editorials

County supervisors were apt to portray a sense of support for oil and natural gas prospects here, but they fell short as it pertains to protecting taxpayers in the event of a necessary cleanup.

Players involved in the increasingly discordant relationship between the hospital and health foundation must find a way to put aside personality differences and give utmost priority to providing the best health care possible for this county's residents.

It's good to see Hollister officials showing a desire to share information with the public through a newsletter, but launching a print publication in 2013 is a reckless, archaic way of spending taxpayers' money, especially after passage of the Measure E tax extension promoted as a savior for public safety.

With Hollister's revived motorcycle rally around the corner, it is most important this year to get the event off the ground while laying groundwork for the right model to sustain it for the long term.

Although the district attorney was legally obliged to prosecute the father of a sex-abuse victim on a battery charge - after he was accused of assaulting his daughter's suspected perpetrator outside the courthouse - prosecutors should use a practical approach and apply what amounts to a slap on the wrist.

The case involving a Hollister man who is on the run and suspected of molesting a 5-year-old girl has underscored two major systematic flaws, one locally and one on the federal level, along with questionable judgment in allowing him to be free without bail considerations in the first place.

Back surgery will keep Gavilan College President Steve Kinsella out of his office for a month this spring. But presumably following the surgery and an initial recovery period, he’ll be available on the phone should any need for a critical emergency decision arise.

Local government and business leaders should be putting top-down pressure on Caltrans bureaucrats to quit the bullying and allow an encroachment permit for Walgreens to build a new sewer line under Tres Pinos Road.

It was far too premature of Supervisor Anthony Botelho to wholly dismiss a housing project at El Rancho San Benito before a prospective proposal even hits the table and before a shred of detail is revealed to the public.