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December 20, 2025

Time to pay amount due to the city

We all know it's easy to let things fall between the cracks.

Los Valientes should identify themselves

There is a time and purpose for anonymity. Our Citizens Voice

Free Lance Editorial: Adviser’s hiring underscores HSD’s fiscal ineptitude

The Hollister School District's request for a class-size waiver and  extension of a contract for an optional fiscal adviser - who acts as  a five-figure “final set of eyes” - underscore a cultural acceptance  of fiscal irresponsibility.

Require local tobacco licenses

Faced with the alarming statistic that 33 percent of our stores

Courts must step in now to clean up prison mess

This much is clear to everyone: California's prisons are a mess.

What happened to corporate citizenship?

Representatives of Olin Corp., which owned the now-closed road

Editorial: Quilter’s parting excuse over RDA loss

In order to learn from your mistakes, you have to own up to them. That holds true for individuals and organizations. It is too bad that departing Hollister City Manager Clint Quilter chose his last official Hollister City Council meeting to shrug off a potential $3 million loss by the former Redevelopment Agency and its successors. On the other hand this has been his regular M.O. when confronted by bad decisions. He has always counted on disinterested city councils to accept every glib explanation.

Editorial: With oil comes opportunity, and work for the county

A renewed interest in San Benito County oil exploration is an opportunity worth serious examination from government leaders, but they will have to take an equally serious look at addressing environmental concerns centered on advancing extraction methods such as fracking.

Christmas Story – the contemporary adaptation

And it came to pass in those days, that there was an economic

Slow Down and Enjoy

As you read this in the morning, I will be on my way to San

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