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Despite the hopes for a Gilroy strip club expressed last week, it seems Gilroyans hoping to observe topless women (and tip them for the priviledge) will continue having to leave South County in order to do so. According…
January 15th, 2009 | Posted in News | No Comments
It seems the city of Gilroy is all set to find a way to reject Ante Bilic’s proposal to turn the floundering El Amigo Restaurant on San Ysidro Ave into a topless bar that would not only generate cash for…
January 7th, 2009 | Posted in News | 1 Comment
Last September I wrote an article titled Thank God Gilroy’s Graffiti Is Now Safe From Bandits! It turned out the Gilroy Dispatch headline was misleading and they’d actually arrested a griaffiti practitioner, not a graffiti “bandit” (aka:…
January 7th, 2009 | Posted in News | No Comments
Does that look like the face of a bigot? Because it clearly is. Unfortunately, she’s a bigot with a weekly column in the Gilroy Dispatch-
Cynthia Anne Walker is a
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December 17th, 2008 | Posted in News | 1 Comment

While heading down Monterey this afternoon on my way to pick Zaira up from school I came across the scene pictured at left. Apparently two cars got to know each other a little too well, so half a dozen…
December 9th, 2008 | Posted in News | 1 Comment

Personally, I’m an agnostic. However, my daughter has chosen to attend services at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Gilroy. Her mother is a pagan/Wiccan. I’ve never mentioned these issues before because they aren’t really relevant. However, I believe it…
October 30th, 2008 | Posted in News, SVMS | 6 Comments
As I reported earlier my daughter Zaira and several of her friends passed petitions around the South Valley Middle School Campus today. I collected those petitions about an hour ago to drop them off at the Gilroy Unified School…
October 3rd, 2008 | Posted in News, SVMS | No Comments
Around 11am this morning I finally had the time to compile my own message to the Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education. I received a response from Board member Denise Apuzzo about 90 minutes later. It is a…
October 3rd, 2008 | Posted in News, SVMS | 1 Comment
With so little time to reach out to the parents and students of Gilroy’s South Valley Middle School about saving the Yosemite Science Camp trip I did what I felt I could. In addition to posting about…
October 3rd, 2008 | Posted in News, SVMS | No Comments
Z and I just returned from the public meeting of the Gilroy Unified School District Board of Education meeting. We were there to speak out against a rules change that the Board made behind closed doors and without public…
October 2nd, 2008 | Posted in News, SVMS | 2 Comments