Letters

Paid signature gatherers from places like Modesto, Oakland, Wyoming and Tennessee are invading our neighborhoods telling voters blatant lies while trying to trick them into signing a recall petition.  This is truly an attack on our community.  Here are just some examples of the absurd statements...

The Joe Heller cartoon of Sept. 18 (Opinion page) portrays an AI robot angered by dire warnings of disaster followed by a robotic smile when congress smiles regulation. Apparently the robot recalls how the same warnings were used to scare people with nuclear annihilation...

Fact-checking Hollister Free Lance; fact-checking Gilroy Dispatch; fact-checking Morgan Hill Times? About those articles that you published about transit having a “balanced budget,” so claimed by the Gilroy City Councilman/VTA Public Sector Transit Advocate. Are you going to let them make such false statements?  Moreover, make...

The Free Lance photo on page 8 of the Sept. 4 edition (“Hollister voters push for Urban Growth Boundary”) depicts people from the grass of lawns and pastures making real grass work function. Here shows the people who want to save Hollister.  Sure, Hollister can...

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...