Guest View: Cuba still waiting for its Jose Marti
Philosophers like Spain’s Antonio Machado believe you can’t separate a man from his dreams. If this is so, the Cuban people are still waiting for Jose Marti, the beloved leader and martyr of its independence from Spain. Jose Marti was a writer and poet who truly understood what freedom, dignity, and democracy is all about. That is the dream he left the Cuban people who have read Marti’s works and have waited for his dream to encircle their small island.
Guest View: Measure P is a critical fork in the road
The late Yogi Berra, 15-time Major League Baseball All-Star, once famously said: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it!” We have come to the fork and local roads are the issue. Measure P is a proposal for a half-cent countywide sales tax to repair deteriorating city and county roads and, eventually, make major highway improvements locally.
