Editorial: Cal Fire lease missing deadline
City and Cal Fire officials have been in on-again, off-again talks for many years and recently reached a deal that would keep the state agency here for the long term.
Valdivia should recuse herself from votes on layoffs that include her family
While no official body has weighed in, it seems clear
Gere had to go because he lost community’s trust
Former Airport Manager Bill Gere is no longer with the city, and
Free Lance Editorial: Racism claim is a big leap
While leaders can always improve on considerations of ethnicity in schools, San Benito High School Trustee Raymond Rodriguez took a superfluous leap in contending differing drug-awareness presentations – one in English, the other in Spanish – were a reflection of institutional racism.
Free Lance Editorial: Hollister council loses control at hearing
Councilwoman Pauline Valdivia tainted the debate last week about an affordable housing proposal by not only veering the discussion and making a ludicrous claim that there is no proof of illegal immigrants living on Hollister's west side, but also spuriously painting others as discriminatory in the process.






