Category: The Inside Scoop

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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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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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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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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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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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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