Opinion

Keith Snow had worked for North West Surfacing and North West Recyclers. We were first introduced to Keith Snow when he was about 12-years old, a Sacramento Bee paper delivery boy. While delivering the paper, he was soliciting mowing lawns. The soliciting of mowing lawns evolved into detailing all of our company vehicles. When Keith Snow was old enough to work, we hired him as an employee and he was one of the best. Keith Snow has an immense loyalty and a compelling drive to do what is right even in adverse situations. Keith is driven by honesty. He later became a foreman and directed construction activities. He always had a unique disposition to put the customer first. Keith later would direct the North West Recycling daily activities.

Everyone seems so caught up by Romney’s “47%” comments. With a secret hidden camera the twisted press sensationalized it by taking Romney’s comments out of context to generate “breaking news” and “serious investigative journalism” which gave the talking heads weeks of fodder.

Measure E will callously squeeze a large percentage of income from the poor, seniors, the disabled and families who have lost jobs, health insurance, even their homes, than of the affluent.

This was a debate for the green-eyeshade crowd. If you tuned in Wednesday night to see President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney offer inspiring visions for the future, you heard more numbers than you did paeans to America.

I cannot believe the San Benito Public Works Department gave permission to a company to do seismic testing all along our county roads and then allowed them to begin pounding the ground with huge trucks. The pounding was so powerful that windows rattled and almost shattered. Someone was hiking along the road and they said it was so powerful that it could have knocked them down, but they saw her and stopped pounding until she went past the truck. The road bed was destroyed in some places. They told us they were testing for earthquake activity. The public works department gave permission without even investigating who this company was and what they were really doing. Perhaps they did know and just didn’t care! Big money talks. Shame on them for deceiving the taxpayers of this county who pay their salaries. They were really testing to see if they could extract oil and gas with a method called fracking. If this company is allowed to do this it will affect all of San Benito County.