Every time I visit the San Francisco Giants' ball park, I realize what a good experience it is, even for people who are not Giants' fans or even fans of baseball. | Full Story

I would like to commend the Los Baños Memorial Hospital for its fantastic service during my recent stay. | Full Story

If it doesn't bother you that $700 billion are leaving the U.S. every year, that hedge fund managers and CEOs are making 400 times the yearly salary of their average worker, or that our government can bail out Citi Corp, Bear Sterns and now it seems, Fannie Mae and Freddi Mac but turns thumbs down on the foreclosed home of John Q Public. If it doesn't bother you that gas is five bucks a gallon, with no hope in sight, or that we're borrowing $12 billion a month from communist China to support our military,then I'm sure your OK with the Los Banos Unified School district's plan to build a new high school and a new elementary school when school classrooms sit empty because of falling attendance. | Full Story

Political primer: Whom to contact | Full Story

Last week, on Tuesday morning, my guess is that many readers of this column, based on years of habit, opened their front door and looked for their copy of the Los Baños Enterprise. | Full Story

As is now apparent, no commercial enterprise will survive with a business plan that depends on gas returning to $3 a gallon. | Full Story

Political primer: Whom to contact | Full Story

Lois Climer was born Oct. 14, 1924. She grew up in hard times, married very young, and had eight children. She worked hard all her life along with my dad in the hot fields - chopping and picking cotton, working on dusty tomato pickers and eventually working in a tomato paste plant. | Full Story