Opinion

Voters have less than 60 days to become educated about Measure

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Every politician wants to rebuild the Hoover Dam – at least metaphorically. At one time the national frustration phrase was, "If we can put a man on the moon why can't we...?" Now the moon is "old cheese" and we're invoking the Hoover Dam, but could we even build it today?

Thumbs up: For the Hollister Police officers and their use of restraint during a standoff at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital Tuesday. A 21-year-old man confronted his mother at the hospital, brandished a knife blade and advanced toward police officers while he tried to escape. The police subdued the man with non-lethal bean bags instead of bullets. Cool heads, calm cops, no needless fatalities – job well done.

Did you know Hollister had to borrow about $920,000 recently from an enterprise fund to pay a bill it owed the county? The loan was necessary to take advantage of future savings from moving emergency dispatch to Santa Cruz 911, but the fact that we had to borrow the money shows just how little financial wiggle room we have left. Unfortunately, the loan becomes just another piece of the puzzle usually shown to public only a little bit at a time. City budgets and finances are complex issues under the best of circumstances, when there is no central thread to hold the information together it becomes impossible to see the big picture.

Regarding Elizabeth Gage's column

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Ethics reform is all the rage in Washington, but the public is