Editorials

DMB Associates' withdrawal of its El Rancho San Benito project

By re-implementing escalated parking fines downtown, city officials effectively could trigger a decline in retail activity all because some merchants are upset about fellow businesses' employees using available spaces right outside their neighboring front doors.

If it smells like a rally and sounds like a rally, it might just be a rally.

With signs that mountain lions may be getting all too comfortable with humans and all too willing to hunt during daylight, there is enough concern about potential public safety ramifications to reestablish a more reliable, structured count.

A recent lawsuit involving a Hollister Hills rider who was injured there and blamed it on the state underscores the need to require proof of insurance when entering such public parks.

Sabotage on the order of last week's severing of fiber optic

After years plagued by empty ideas and stagnant growth, the

The recent tragedy on a dangerous stretch of Highway 129 underscores that state and local officials must examine what lengths can be taken to make the inter-county road safer. That might include looking at signs, speed limits and whether some sort of expansion project should be high on the priority list.

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.