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From Whom Gilroy Gets Its Name
Gilroy is named for California’s first non-Spanish permanent settler, John Gilroy.
The Scottish seaman from Inverness was actually born John Cameron. Gilroy was his mother’s maiden name, which he substituted for Cameron presumably to avoid detection.
The History of Santa Clara County published in 1881 by Alley, Bowen & Co. of San Francisco describes Gilroy as “six feet in his stockings, as straight as an arrow, broad in the shoulders, a well-proportioned frame, with a keen eye, wide forehead, and lowering brow. Read more »
Mike Kahl, Influential and Respected Sacramento Lobbyist, Dead at 71
Mike Kahl, one of Sacramento’s most effective and influential lobbyists for more than a quarter century died November 18 of Parkinson’s disease. He was 71.
Principled, strategic and tenacious, Kahl and his partner Fred Pownall, built one of the most respected and one of the biggest grossing lobbying firms in Sacramento, representing the oil industry, water districts, and timber concerns, among many other clients. Read more »
Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring Thanksgiving (Not a Moment Too Soon!)
PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
The first Thanksgiving in 1621 was a celebration of the harvest that brought together the Pilgrims of Plymouth Plantation and the Native Americans who helped them adapt to their new environment. Over the years, Thanksgiving became an American tradition and one of the first holidays we celebrated as a free and independent nation. Read more »
Seven Score and Nine Years Ago…
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered two-minutes of remarks — around 270 words — to some 15,000 listeners at the dedication of a new national military cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Although the morning was foggy and bleak, by noon the sun broke through bathing the crowd that gathered on a hill overlooking the battlefield where, from July 1 to July 3 Confederate and Union forces met in a bloody confrontation that generated the most casualties of any battle in the war and made the South’s eventual defeat certain. Read more »
Study Shows Social Media Has Different Take on First Presidential Debate Than Mainstream Media
President Obama floundered – or got flummoxed – in his first debate with GOP rival Mitt Romney, according to most initial polls and media reports.
But the assessment of the debate on social media was less critical of the president, according to an October 5 analysis by the Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism. Read more »
Not Every Veto Message a Gem
Gov. Jerry Brown writes and edits all his veto messages. That’s what Brown insists, a statement echoed by his staff.
His veto messages are invariably forthright, sometimes trenchant and often droll but, like anyone, there are a few arid patches where the mojo just ain’t risin’, to quote famed political analyst Jim Morrison. Read more »
Today’s Latin Lesson Is What Many Voters Privately Ask Their Elected Officials
Hocine tibi habeas iocum?
“Is this your idea of a joke?” Read more »
Not A Lot of Surprises in The Candidates and Ballot Measures the GOP Recommends
(Have yet to meet the “Volunteer Republican Neighborhood Precinct Representative,” however.)
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