The Inside Scoop Ray Quiroga publisher@sbnewspaper.com OCTOBER 26-NOVEMBER 1, 2018 Let it never be said that our readers are apathetic, especially as it pertains to City and school district matters. As indicated by the veracity and thoughtfulness of the letters we receive, the people of San Benito are passionate about their community, especially when they …
Category: Staff Columns
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Oct 19 2018
What we don’t know about the bond
The Inside Scoop Ray Quiroga publisher@sbnewspaper.com OCTOBER 19-25, 2018 The biggest take away — for me, at least — from Tuesday night’s town hall, presented by the San Benito school district and pertaining to the upcoming bond election, isn’t so much what district representatives shared at the town hall, but what they didn’t share, at …
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Oct 12 2018
The numbers behind the bond
The Inside Scoop Ray Quiroga publisher@sbnewspaper.com OCTOBER 12-18, 2018 In a column two weeks ago, I addressed a number of concerns pertaining to the proposed San Benito school district bond, which is on the ballot this coming election and which the voting public will determine its fate. As expected, I received some push back from …
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Oct 05 2018
Keeping it to yourself isn’t always good
The Inside Scoop Ray Quiroga publisher@sbnewspaper.com OCTOBER 5-11, 2018 Anyone who’s had or has a child enrolled in the San Benito school district in more recent years has received at least one of those district-initiated robo-calls informing parents about their child’s latest homework assignment, upcoming standardized test, vacation day, half day or even an …
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Sep 28 2018
The bond that ties (us up)
The Inside Scoop Ray Quiroga publisher@sbnewspaper.com SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 4, 2018 We tend to gravitate to shiny new things, especially when they’re wrapped in nice packaging. Historically speaking, in San Benito, public entities have sold the citizenry on a number of initiatives which have left the people footing the bill, in one form or another. Indeed, …
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Sep 21 2018
A week later, there are more questions than answers
The Inside Scoop Ray Quiroga publisher@sbnewspaper.com SEPTEMBER 21-27, 2018 A week after the publication of a column detailing what is, in my opinion, the San Benito School District’s retaliatory measures for what the superintendent Dr. Nate Carman later described as reckless reporting, the News, and specifically this publisher, has fielded a number of correspondences and …
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Sep 14 2018
Newspaper faces district retaliation, pulls ads over coverage
The Inside Scoop Ray Quiroga publisher@sbnewspaper.com SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2018 It’s been a number of years since I last penned my popular and award-winning column, “The Inside Scoop,” an unadulterated look at local government and area happenings. Since then, I’ve been work ing behind-the-scenes, navigating this company through the many changes the industry, as …
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Dec 04 2015
A CHRISTMAS STORY- (a challenge for the community)
By STEVEN RAY HERNANDEZ Editor Editor@sbnewspaper.com It was the Holiday season, and we had just been released for Christmas break. I was seven years old at the time. I was outside playing some random game that the neighborhood kids and I invented (as was customary in my days); when, all of a sudden a huge, …
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Oct 15 2015
OH S.N.A.P.- Food stamp fraud in the Valley
By STEVEN RAY HERNANDEZ EDITOR EDITOR@SBNEWSPAPER.COM You can’t have your cake and eat it too……..Or so we thought. When the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) first kicked off, the idea was to help provide food-purchasing assistance to families with little to no-income here in the U.S. And it did. However, now, it seems to be …
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Sep 10 2015
OPEN YOUR EYES- Identifying the problem and solution to the suicide epidemic
By STEVEN RAY HERNANDEZ Editor Editor@sbnewspaper.com Somewhere, at this very moment, in this little town we call San Benito, there is someone who is seriously thinking about taking their own life. They may be sitting in your classroom right now, or have a locker just a few rows down from you, or it may …
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