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December 22, 2025

Marty: The biggest coverup in US history

The United States is now engaged in the biggest coverup in history. We are trying to hide 50 years of stupid personal and political decisions. Every case of incompetence, irresponsibility and outright thievery is now blamed on the worldwide economic crisis and the consequences are being buried under a pile of stimulus money. The so-called stimulus package is designed to spread the fragrance of forgetfulness and dampen the public's justifiable anger as much as cure any economic ills.   

Editorial: Every day matters on homeless shelter

We commend the Homeless Task Force and county officials for pursuing the former convalescent hospital on Southside Road as a much-needed permanent homeless shelter, but we encourage supervisors to move ahead with utmost expediency because every day literally matters and widely affects the overall quality of life in this area.

Buying buses with stimulus funds defies the point

Local transportation officials have defied the point of the historic federal stimulus and are squandering part of San Benito County's opportunity to kick-start the economy by spending $374,000 on two replacement buses to run existing transit routes.

Parking enforcement unnecessary downtown

In considering reinstatement of parking enforcement downtown,

District should help fund gang role

San Benito High School District officials point to budget

Laying off teachers is not inevitable

Anyone with a pulse knows that the California jobs picture looks

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Highway hypocrisy?

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