Opinion

Hollister School District officials are taking the right approach by planning to be without a budget for bus service in 2012-13, but that shouldn't stop leaders from examining other alternatives to continue providing transportation.

In Hans Christian Andersen's folktale "The Emperor's New Clothes" two swindlers promise the Emperor a glorious new suit visible only to the wise and competent, but invisible to all others; naturally, the Emperor claims he can see it perfectly.

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.

If high school district officials hope to gain voters' trust in supporting a bond measure to build a second campus, they must adjust their current direction of rushing toward groundbreaking on this monumental proposal.

At some point, the San Benito High School District must expand and build a second campus. That some point, however, is nowhere near the radar in a county where residents are primarily concerned about getting by in the short term rather than betting the farm on the future.