Meanwhile, San Jose Inside Power Poll respondents favor some kind of gas tax rebate—even the environmentalists.

Critics say that despite threats of big insurance premiums in the wake of a 2019 mass shooting, Gilroy city officials pulled the plug too early on the Gilroy Garlic Festival after more than four decades.

Ken Christopher, executive vice president of Christopher Ranch and the grandson of Gilroy Garlic Festival co-founder Don Christopher, suggested the San Joaquin County group is trying to use the publicity of the demise of the Gilroy festival to its own advantage.

World-renowned food festival, plagued by the Covid-19 pandemic, continuing lawsuits over the 2019 mass shooting, financial losses and new insurance requirements by the City of Gilroy, will be dramatically scaled back this year and in years ahead.

Enforcement of the ordinance, first of its kind in the U.S., will likely only come in connection with criminal investigations.

The DA’s Office is also asking the community to join the effort by performing an act of kindness and sharing it with us on Facebook and Instagram using the hashtags #GilroyKind and #KindnessIsStrong.

After the 2020 Garlic Festival was cancelled, volunteers worked to reimagine Gilroy’s signature event with new public health protocols.

Living in a country in which so many people are victims of gun violence is not normal. Until we can live free of those fears, we still have work to do.

The claims had to be filed this week, which marked the six-month anniversary of the deadly attack by a lone shooter at Christmas Hill Park.

The newly inducted board president then enumerated some of the ways she plans to tackle the county’s most intractable problems.

The City Council meets at 1:30pm Tuesday inside the council chambers at City Hall, 200 E. Santa Clara St.

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The Garlic Festival Association in a statement declined to say whether it implemented the DHS guide cited in the Nov. 12 lawsuit.

The buyback comes less than three months after the July 28 mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival left three victims dead.

The lawsuit claims that the festival association, a Gilroy-based non-profit, could have done numerous things to make the event safer.

Hundreds packed into the Santa Clara Convention Center to hear from politicos and business leaders Friday.