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No Strip Club For Gilroy :(

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…

Gilroy To Reject More Money, More Jobs, More Boobs?

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…

Gilroy’s Graffiti May Finally be Safe After All!

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:…

Why Does Cynthia Walker Hate The Poor?

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

Accident At Monterey & Farrell

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…

Gilroy Teacher: “Lutheranism Is A Fake Religion”

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…

Victory To The Students!

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…

A Response From The Schoolboard

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…

100% of Parents Surveyed Support Yosemite Field Trip!

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…

URGENT! Action Needed NOW To Save Science Camp!

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…


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