Tag: opinion
The Mountain Gardener | How to Use Phenology in the Garden
Always on the lookout for potential problems in my garden, I can use all the help I can get. Solutions are out there. One...
Letters to the Editor | Published Feb. 16, 2024
Seniors and families struggle as HOA fees skyrocket
In the Jan. 26 front-page article about the garage fire (“Hidden Oaks Residents Raise Concerns Over HOA...
Finance | Landlord Tax
Chairman Mao once paraded landlords before crowds to their deaths and many today would confiscate landlord’s control over property without recompense. When tax clients...
Guest Column | Why Have We Forgotten Our First Generation?
As a young child. I lived in Washington State in the ’30s in a boarding house owned by my aged uncle and aunt, where...
Fitness | Staying Motivated When You Want to Quit
One of the biggest issues of why many of the population aren’t seeing the results of working out, is because they give up and...
The Mountain Gardener | Allergy Season is Here
My neighbor Sue answered her door sneezing and coughing with puffy eyes and a red runny nose that Rudolph would envy. We live among...
Letters to the Editor | Published Feb. 9, 2024
Majority of ratepayers being left behind
It’s hard to believe the San Lorenzo Valley Water District promotes this rate increase as supporting water conservation. Anyone...
Plain Talk About Food | Roses are Red, the Violet’s Blue…
It was in the year 1590, Sir Edmund Spense continued his poem… “the honey’s sweet, and so are you.” And the last two lines...
Guest Viewpoint | Proposed Water Rate Increase Doesn’t Address Common-Sense Issues
There’s a rumor afloat that all San Lorenzo Valley Water District Board Directors support a rate increase. As one of those Directors, and speaking...
The Mountain Gardener | A Rose by Any Other Name
When Juliet tells Romeo that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” she must have been referring to the Compassion rose....
Scotts Valley Council clears surplus land step for Town Center project
Scotts Valley City Council’s Jan. 21 meeting made some serious progress on the Town Center development—essentially doing some of the housekeeping items needed to...
