Letters

Regarding the Police captain’s use of a police car to commute at the taxpayers expense. There must be better ways of utilization of the vehicle and the expense of operating it.  As far as the suggestion of charging 5 cents a mile, that would not come close to the operating cost. The IRS allows 55.5 cents for business use and 23.5 cents to obtain medical service.

City contract may bring unintended consequences

Dear Editor,

The group that controls the House of Representatives and wants control of the Senate and White House has this partial agenda: 1. Lower taxes on America’s top 1 percent. 2. Give control of medical care back to insurance companies. 3. Replace Medicare with the Ryan voucher system. 4. Pay off the National Debt with cuts to government programs, not tax money. 5. Destroy all unions and the benefits they bring our society. 6. Eliminate all government controls except for women’s health. Why would Americans give serious thought or even one vote to this group?

When we have too much government, our small business owners are strangled, suffocated, and crucified by the confiscatory taxes/fees and impossible regulations, ordinances, rules, statutes, issued by multiple, over-lapping, redundant levels of government.

With the passing of Joe Paterno I felt it necessary to write this letter in the hopes that people here in Hollister might choose to rise above the muck and mire and remember Joe for what he accomplished in his career and lifetime.

Thank you very much for running my ad in your newspaper for three weeks. Many people came, in spite of the rain, to drop off their old electronic goods. I am sure we did better than last year as it was in the newspaper longer than last year.

Rotary hopes to return antique fair to national status

“Ding dong the Witch is dead!” The witch in this case is the Hollister Redevelopment Agency. For example, imagine, if you will an agency which agreed to rent the entire Porter House for $4,000 per month to house a handful of employees; a $5 million downtown firehouse for a handful of firefighters; please. It becomes all too apparent that spending practices are grossly out of whack. The RDA is a spending engine! And the City of Hollister simply cannot afford an indulgent RDA.

Thanks for Holte Dinner support