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Lockdown another example for SBHS

March 9, 2009

If San Benito High School officials do not see enough examples

If no choice, spend $374K on job creation

March 9, 2009

A transportation official defended her agency's allocation of

March 3, 2009

The United States is now engaged in the biggest coverup in history. We are trying to hide 50 years of stupid personal and political decisions. Every case of incompetence, irresponsibility and outright thievery is now blamed on the worldwide economic crisis and the consequences are being buried under a pile of stimulus money. The so-called stimulus package is designed to spread the fragrance of forgetfulness and dampen the public's justifiable anger as much as cure any economic ills.

Editorial: Every day matters on homeless shelter

March 3, 2009

We commend the Homeless Task Force and county officials for pursuing the former convalescent hospital on Southside Road as a much-needed permanent homeless shelter, but we encourage supervisors to move ahead with utmost expediency because every day literally matters and widely affects the overall quality of life in this area.

Buying buses with stimulus funds defies the point

February 28, 2009

Local transportation officials have defied the point of the historic federal stimulus and are squandering part of San Benito County's opportunity to kick-start the economy by spending $374,000 on two replacement buses to run existing transit routes.

Parking enforcement unnecessary downtown

February 25, 2009

In considering reinstatement of parking enforcement downtown,

District should help fund gang role

February 25, 2009

San Benito High School District officials point to budget

City council should reject parking enforcement

February 20, 2009

In considering reinstatement of parking enforcement downtown, city officials are seeking a solution for a problem that does not exist and they are doing so, curiously, after the recent opening of the new Highway 25 bypass, intended to reduce traffic in that same merchant-heavy area.

Readers, expose government waste

February 17, 2009

Hey, Gov. Schwarzenegger, you say you want to root out big-time

Martin is on the right track at EDC