Letters

Southern Californians do not need to see the flames burning Los

I am writing in regards to the article concerning the unsafe

City union employees, welcome to the REAL world.

Another one of our young men has died tragically in an auto

The Hollister Free Lance had a well-written article on the Farm

Is a new precedent being set with this recall, that will require

If you live in a County CSA, you’re paying for services you may not be getting. San Benito County has 27 County Service Areas (CSA). If you live in one of the following CSAs, the County has contracted with each CSA to preform maintenance of...

When you have something as important as this CaHSRA Meeting Agenda Item No. 3, we would be better off giving months' advance notice to the public, putting the whole proposal through some legal procedure like the creation of regulations in the Administrative Procedures Act, where proposals get months and months for review and analysis. Instead, we have unelected, unaccountable (not subject to voter recall) joint power authorities making these public-sector, taxpayers-can-pay-for-it proposals. The Brown Act is the wrong standard for prudent consideration of public policy decisions. They are getting away with murder of the taxpayers by merely "complying" (sometimes yes, sometimes no) with the Brown Act's brief requirements.