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Letter to the Editor: Hoping, Praying For United Los Gatos Council

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Now that this year’s General Election is, for most of us, just a distant memory, it’s about time for government, particularly our local government, to get back to the business of governance.

That said, it is unfortunate that in

When word of this event reached my ears, I was for the first time in my over two decades of living and raising a family in Los Gatos, ashamed to call myself a Los Gatan.

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As this year comes to an end and a new year begins, with Vice Mayor Barbara Spector having won re-election, and soon-to-be former Planning Commissioner Marcia having been newly elected to the Council, I am hopeful that (to paraphrase President Barack Obama), “the [Council] is not as divided as its politics might suggest.”

Taking a cue from our Canadian cousins to the north, I pray our Council conducts itself in the coming year with a mind towards “peace, order and good government.”

—By Los Gatos resident Andrew H. Wu

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