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January 20, 2026

Letter to the Editor | King City in Bloom Urges Voters to Support Measure T

To the Editor: King City in Bloom urges you to vote yes on Measure T on Nov. 5. This is a 1/2-cent tax on sales that will apply to travelers as well as residents. In that way, the cost is spread to the people who...

Window on the World Column | No Doubting the Universe

ā€œNo doubt the universe will unfold as it should,ā€ I tell my husband (sort of citing my favorite poem ā€œDesiderataā€). This was after we returned home from our neighbor’s place up the hill. Most times you go to neighboring homes and receive tomatoes or...

Window on the World Column | The Marvel of a Vaccine

It was 2020 and, like a champ, I had the flu and the pneumonia vaccination in one foul swoop. It was recommended for us folks of a certain age. We weathered mild side effects from both shots, and I didn’t get either virus. Result…...

Guest Column | Protecting the Heart of California’s Workforce: The Urgent Need for CSU Funding Solutions

Vanya QuiƱones
California’s investment in education has created one of the most impressive higher education systems in the U.S. with the California State University, University of California and California Community Colleges. Together, California’s colleges and universities make up 12% of full-time equivalent enrollment in higher education...

Funny Papers Again Column | On the Wings of Time Grief Flies Away

We all have what we nostalgically refer to as our ā€œhometown,ā€ that place where we spent maybe not the most years of our lives but surely the years we recall with sharpest memory; and as decade follows decade the people and places we knew...

Worthy to Print Column | Happy to Be Alive

Well I believe that I have seen the gates of hell. I even feel that I was on my way through those rusty jagged portals when I turned around and saw my wonderful wife who shooed away all the bad parts of my life...

Worthy to Print Column | Living in a Family Town

You know I have had a few folks ask me why I live in Gonzales. Let’s see… it couldn’t be the night life. Oh sure, we have mariachi bands trying to get the snare drum to match the bass they play so well. Have...

Worthy to Print Column | It’s Not Fair

George Worthy
Boy oh boy! How many times did I say that as a youth? I was third of four boys. It seemed that my Dad always favored the older two boys in almost every area as a youth. My oldest brother would get a new...

Funny Papers Again Column | If Fiction Were Real: A Study in Human Emotion

Below is what happens when a writer is somewhat confined to his immediate surroundings; that writer reads a lot of books and views a lot of documentaries and then sits down at the keyboard and just lets the fingers go where the imagination, and...

Window on the World Column | The Foxy Lover

He became quite the character of sorts, a fixture on the rather rough and tumble Nestles Road in Soledad, surrounded by rough ground and abandoned buildings. If you happened to pass by during the latter part of an afternoon, you might see him sitting...
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