The Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Press Banner are co-sponsoring two candidate forums, one for the City Council, on Oct. 6, and one for the school district Board of Trustees, on Oct. 18..
There has been a lot of discussion and downright anxiety around the country, not so much in California, about so-called voter fraud. Mostly Republican-dominated state legislatures have tried to make it more difficult to vote and courts increasingly are tossing out the plans as inadvertently discriminatory at best and intentionally racist at worst, which disenfranchise thousands.
The title of Thomas Wolfe’s posthumous novel, You Can’t Go Home Again, is often quoted as a standalone comment, without a context. One lesson in those five words is that when you take a fresh look at things you once knew, you will see them differently – and you should be careful not only about recognizing your new perspective, but also about how you communicate this new perspective.
“Excitement flourishes in moments like these. Moments when you have waited and worked eighteen years to see. This day is voting day with full rights to have a say, in the way we aspire to structure the lives we live.”
San Lorenzo Valley Water District (SLVWD) is inviting local residents to join its standing committees, with the deadline for applications now extended to Jan....