Letters

This week (Free Lance, Sept. 4 edition) Joe Heller’s opinion page cartoon seems vacant as it depicts a multi-labeled coat simply identified as “Dolly” hung on a hollow space. However that emptiness immediately filled with visions of radiant smiles, pompadour blonde hair rhythmically motioned...

Dymphna (DJ) William’s Guest View on the library deftly exposes the rich value a library offers to the community. Food for the soul comes from the library. The library sets the table with a smorgasbord of infinite variety. If an adequate smorgasbord includes a dish...

Words are important. Where words reside is important. We read newsprint, books and magazines. We see posters. We see walls. “In God We Trust” on the supervisors’ chamber wall causes thoughtful concern.  Words on a wall may or may not represent what remains hidden in...

Now you see the gift of nature which is soft hills protecting fertile plains of fruit trees and vegetables. Beware magicians among us like a recall group and Silicon Valley Biz PAC who want to change this view of plenty and beauty.  The Recall group...

Thank goodness for thankfulness in a thankless society. Yet gratitude lives in a grateful community graciously alive served by this newsprint. The front page of this paper (Free Lance, Aug. 7) features volunteers and names them “Heroes.” Gratitude is unique. Usually office holders need to...

Reading “Velazquez plans to rerun for supe seat” (Hollister Free Lance, July 31) overjoyed me. The article reassured me that courageous people still exist!  Because of one brave person, democracy can still function. It takes extraordinary dedication to the common good to face extreme hostility...

“Abolish Ice”, a sign captured in the Free Lance photo featured in the coverage of the protest at the Gilroy construction site for an ICE detention center. Of course we don’t want our spinach, carrots, onions and garlic spoiled by a police state. I...

With the California High Speed Rail Authority’s Supermassive Black Hole Bullet Train insolvent, and getting more so every day, as motorists and taxpayers are gouged for the tax subsidies the builders demand, a bankruptcy solution, so common in the economy (see examples off the...

Re: Another Recall, Free Lance, July 17. Democracy is under attack because some do not like to lose an election. These few initiate recalls. These “Poor Losers” prefer to be winners so they proceed on the attack. They disregard the common good. What concerns me...

Re: Joe Heller cartoon, Free Lance, July 10. The smile on the beak of the stork transmits the purpose of the fly-over of the Capitol by the stork while depositing the standard “bird droppings” smiling about his delivery. The point of his beak bringing a...