Archive By Author - Dennis Wyatt
A water plan for all of California from Garamendi
Name the fifth largest river on the Western Hemisphere's West Coast. Here's a hint: It's located where water power brokers are pushing a $14 billion twin tunnel plan that has the potential to destroy the Delta and keep a large swath of the richest agricultural region in the world fallow. The "river" is all of the water that flows out of wastewater treatment plants in Southern California and is dumped into the Pacific Ocean. It's ...
Manteca jobless rate drops back to mid-2010 level
Manteca's employment rate was at its highest level in February since mid-2007 as 87.2 percent of the 27,600 people in the labor pool had jobs.
To those who are 20: Life gets better, a lot better
There's only one gift I want as I turn 57. That's being able to make a 20-year-old understand life does get better. A lot better. It can be frustrating finding a job and then struggling to make ends meet. At the same time you worry about what others think of you and are terrorized that you will never find love or lose the love that you have. Your heart and very soul at times seem ...
Manteca’s street faire bash April 6-7
Walk down Yosemite Avenue on Manteca on April 6-7 and you may find yourself in a 1960s flashback to tie-dye mania.
Police Segwey-ing into future
Manteca is about to start segueing from fossil fuel to electric power to move police officers around town.
Who is Phillip Randol? The answer is at Crossroads
So just who is Phillip Randol? Yard signs placed thoughout Manteca have been displaying that question. You can find out by going to WhoIsPhillipRandol.com or stop by Crossroads Grace Community Church this Saturday or Sunday. It is all part of a contemporary delivery of a message that has stood the test of time being staged at the Moffat Boulevard house of worship Easter weekend. The Easter season presentation dubbed "The Fortunate Death of Phillip Randol" ...
Get ready for the Wii bowling urinal challenge
Enough is enough. Do we have to be exposed to the onslaught of high tech entertainment literally everywhere we go? It was bad enough when sports bars started posting copies of the San Francisco Sporting Green at eye-level above urinals. It was equally insane when Disneyland starting putting TV screens in restrooms. Now the Allentown minor league affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies has taken bathroom entertainment to an even lower level with a urinal gaming ...
Rear admiral plans Manteca visit to honor fallen corpsman
By DENNIS WYATT The Bulletin Rear Admiral Donald Gintzig will join Dakota Meyer - the first living Marine in 38 years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor - as a participant in the 10th annual Memorial Day Weekend Commemoration on May 26 at Woodward Park. The two contacted organizers asking to attend when they heard the 12th panel of the Welcome Home Heroes Traveling Tributes that lists the names of more than 7,000 Americans ...
Manteca-Lathrop’s next economic boom is coming down the tracks
They've been working on the railroad – and for good reason. America is in the midst of a railroad boom. It has everything to do with the economic recovery, rising overseas production costs, the shale oil boom, efficiencies in fuel and goods movements, and reducing carbon footprints. Railroads this year alone are expected to pour $14 billion into infrastructure to make train movements more efficient from coast to coast. Freight demand is projected to double ...
Watch hours, stay financially healthy
Part-time employees for the City of Manteca - unless they are seasonal workers - won't be getting more than 29 hours a week of work.
In a true sense we are all Stocktonians
Stockton admittedly has its challenges. It is second only to Oakland among California cities in terms of crime. It is the third most illiterate city among those in the United States with 250,000 residents or more based on just 17 percent of the adult population having a college degree. The FBI ranks it No. 7 nationally for vehicle theft per capita. And on Monday Stockton had the dubious honor of being the largest United States ...
City wants golf pro to make more
Manteca's leaders want to see golf pro Alan Thomas make a lot more money. And the reason they do is to improve the municipal golf course's bottom line. The City Council has finalized a deal with Thomas that would give the golf pro 90 percent of everything he generates above $814,044 a year in green fees during this year, 2014 and 2015. The city would receive the other 10 percent. It is the flip of ...
The curse of throwing around vulgar words
"My gosh." I first I didn't really notice. Then I heard it again. "My gosh." I stopped where I was working in my back yard and looked up." "My gosh. I almost got it." Standing on the roof of the house next door was a neighbor boy of about 12 years. He was shooting baskets with his cousins. They were feeding him the ball and he was trying to shoot over the top of a ...
Shortage of new Manteca homes?
Get ready for a housing shortage. As implausible as it may sound Manteca new home builders are predicting they won't be able to meet demand later this year. The reason is simple. Buyer demand in Manteca is increasing at a rate that's too fast to bring ready-to-build lots online. That is also why builder confidence nationwide has fallen even though new home sales are at their strongest in over six years. The National Association of ...
Water: It’s what SSJID has & others want
South San Joaquin Irrigation District has something that everyone else in California wants - water.
Articles By Author - Dennis Wyatt
Mega project impacting Ripon
Everything from Ripon schools and roads to fire service will feel the impacts of the Austin Road Business Park - the largest development ever approved in Manteca.
Manteca turns 95 as a city a week from today
Editor's note: This is the first of a six-part series taking a look back at Manteca's first 95 years as an incorporated city. Voters approved incorporation on May 28, 1918.
The IRS and the big government- big media complex
Lie to the federal government and you'd better get you affairs in order.
Larry Page and his goog- goog- googley eyes
Get ready for the invasion of the Barneys.
Environmental study next step for Great Wolf
Nearly 100 acres of city-owned wastewater treatment plant land could end up as the premier family entertainment hub for the Northern San Joaquin Valley while tapping into the Bay Area market as well.
To the Class of 2013: It’s all about attitude
Dear graduates:
Super flush: One treatment plant for Ripon, Lathrop & Manteca sewer?
Manteca, Ripon and Lathrop could become more than just neighboring communities at least when it comes to wastewater.
Kids sleeping in boxes for homeless awareness
A handful of kids are going to get a chance to think out of the box when it comes to perceptions about the homeless.
Perhaps Manteca should just say no to bonus bucks
It was the white lie of the last decade.
High Stanislaus River flows
Federal authorities are intentionally flooding low land along the Stanislaus River in a test to see whether it will help increase the chances of salmon fingerlings making it to the Delta.
Tim Cook is big benefactor of Apple picking
Shame on you, Tim Cook.
Job pays $178.08 an hour
Your federal tax dollars funneled through the City of Manteca are paying Charlie Halyer $178.08 an hour and his fellow worker $144.88 an hour. The two are resident engineers. But they aren't being paid that rate to make sure a freeway bridge is built safely. Instead the Caltrop employees are being paid to make sure trees and shrubs planted along the 120 Bypass corridor and part of Highway 99 get enough water. "It's ridiculous," said ...
SSJID sitting on $44.1M worth of unrestricted investments, cash
South San Joaquin Irrigation District had $44.1 million in unrestricted cash and investments at the end of 2012.
EPA mandates: Not too tasty but filling with fiber
The San Joaquin Valley's blessing is its curse.
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