Morgan Hill Review

When I was a kid we were dirt poor but my mother always managed to keep us in rental houses instead of apartments.  I never realized either how difficult or how valuable that was until a few years back.  I’ve…

Early last month the Gilroy Unified School District tried to cancel South Valley Middle School’s annual seventh-grade field trip to Yosemite.  Luckily, Zaira stood up to the bureaucrats and managed to rally the students to save

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Last week I wrote about the lack of local computer help here in Morgan Hill. The problem is obviously not getting any better and it reared its ugly head in my online life again this weekend.

I was looking…

With even the Morgan Hill Times finally acknowledging the accelerating business closures in our sleepy little burg (why do they never report on the local businesses opening and closing?) I thought it might be time to

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Late last month I had some problems with my bank account and had to cancel my debit card. It was a huge hassle, but South Valley National Bank has a wonderful staff and it was resolved with a

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While visiting the Tennant Station Safeway this afternoon to cash in my free sandwich coupon I came across an interesting find. Currently piled up in front of Safeway are numerous new electronic signs advertising a self service pet wash…

While giving my mother’s maiden name, secret password, social security number and blood type to the Earthlink tech just so he could tell me to call back later I started thinking about something. Identity theft. Now this is not something…

Over the last few weeks I’ve suddenly been inundated with random telemarketers calling at all hours. We’ve had the same phone number for the 2 years we’ve lived here and always received a call or two every few months, but…