Water Cooler: Do you support the right to carry a concealed weapon?
Louise Ledesma: “No, I agree with California law, which allows certain people who gain permission from the county sheriff to carry concealed weapons. Florida's gun laws are not strict enough and led to the killing on an innocent person.”
Water Cooler: Does cost cut change your view on the bullet train?
This week, panelists answered the question: California high-speed rail officials released a scaled-back budget cutting the cost from $98 billion to $68 billion. Does it change your view on its feasibility?
Free Lance Editorial: Politics trumps public safety in debate over fire contract
Self-interests were on full display last week at the San Benito County board meeting, where officials gave priority to politics over public safety.
Water Cooler: Is the individual mandate in the health care law constitutional?
Ruth Erickson: “Many people don’t have the means to pay for health care insurance. They are more worried about finding employment to earn enough to pay for food and shelter. Not all senior citizens or families have the funds to purchase any kind of insurance! They are just scraping by and having to make difficult choices between eating or taking necessary medications. There are definitely many parts of the 2,700-page ‘Obamacare’ health insurance laws which can be saved, discussed, refined, rewritten and implemented, but to mandate that each person MUST buy health insurance is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!”
