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Open landscape work to competitive bids
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Mayor Willie Weatherford's proposal and your support for opening landscape district work to competition is probably the most effective way to help ensure taxpayers and homeowners get good value for tax and fee dollars. Without competition, ongoing large cost increases could make cost and fee disclosure misleading to home buyers. If Manteca's internal studies show city estimates, costs, or both are within 5 percent of fixed-price bids to do the work, the ...
Urges residents to fight Ripon gas station plan
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, On Tuesday night, April 14, the Ripon Planning Commission voted to grant a conditional use permit for the development of a gas station, convenience store, and retail complex at 769 W. Milgeo, at the corner of Milgeo and Arc, just off the Fulton Overpass. This is poor judgment by the Commission, here's why: This will greatly increase traffic, noise and pollution on Milgeo, and in the neighborhoods immediately adjacent to this planned ...
Prayer is basic fundamental right of free speech
Editor, Manteca, Bulletin, I just read your column ("College makes federal case out of praying in faculty office" April 13 by Dennis Wyatt). Excellent job. In addition to great writing, including creativity and good analogies, you picked up the essence of this case, which is why I took this on as attorney for the plaintiffs - prayer is a basic fundamental right of free speech and expression, not per se disruptive behavior that can be ...
There ought to be a law
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Thanks for Glenn Kahl's detailed coverage of this event in Marsala court on March 14-15. This was a terrifying disturbance to all the residents of this neighborhood. The police have said all this guy had was a very realistic pistol that only shoots blanks. The guy's explanation that he was defending his house has not been proved by any evidence. You also wonder why he would be engaged in an imaginary gun ...
Senior appreciates help with project
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Hello, my name is Elizabeth Wells. I am a senior at East Union High School and my senior project was a bake sale to raise money for the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. Because I wanted to donate all of the proceeds from the sale I sought donations of the ingredients from the Manteca Raley's and the Save Mart on North Main St. Thanks to their support and generosity I did not need ...
Is it a free market or monopoly controlled?
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The whole point of my asking for objective evidence is so that we can make informed choices and decisions. But there is another part to making informed choices and decisions that we need to consider, and that is the understanding of the information we are using to base our decisions on. The Democrats are failing in this arena as well. The recent Manteca Bulletin Opinion blog replies to my "Letters to the ...
Who is going to bail out America?
Editor, Manteca Bulletin. Tax Freedom Day occurs in the first week of May. While its celebration does not get national attention, it should. On average, all the money the average tax payer made from January through the first week in May will go to the government in taxes. Yet, with all that money, our government is broke with a national debt that is 12 trillion dollars. The reason? Our government has a spending problem. Each ...
Require PG&E to buy excess solar production
Assemblywoman Lori Saldana wants all homes built and sold in California after Jan. 1, 2020 to be zero net energy users.
In defense of EU Cemetery volunteers
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Normally I do not comment on many of the articles printed in the Manteca Bulletin. They are usually informative of the city's doings – people enjoying activities, the newspaper reaching out to inform us of those needing help. Never in my 20+ years of residency have I been so disgusted with this city as I am today. The article in regard to people who are unhappy with the East Union Cemetery and ...
Council fails in quest for affordable housing
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, It is right to say the council is not making much of an effort to make homes affordable. Apartments for seniors are welcome, but affordable homes are still out of reach for many families in Manteca. I am a senior and I welcome affordable housing for seniors. It's the lack of affordability of homes for all the people, that bothers most people. Hundreds of new homes are in the planning stage, but ...
Gas prices, recessions, and predictions
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Some of us woke up the day after Easter to have our morning coffee, contemplate the events of the previous day and hope all the hidden Easter eggs were located, lest they lay to rot in their hiding places until some unsuspecting soul would stumble into their foul odor, but content in the fact that hopefully we wouldn't have to contend with that task for a couple of days or so. That ...
$6 plus gas by third quarter of 2011?
Editor, Manteca Bulletin After all the letters about critical thinking one would hope that the Democrats would start applying critical thinking skills instead of continuing to use misinformation that is so easily disproved. Mr. Sadlowski has quoted me on the phrase, "Statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics". The object of statistics is to paint a clear picture of the situation for a better understanding. It now seems that Mr. "Cause and Confusion" Baca ...
Thank-you, Evelyn Prouty, for your work at EU Cemetery
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, This letter is in response to "People impatient with woman volunteer, 62, digging grave by herself" dated April 6,, 2009. To a certain degree I can understand the woman's frustrations, however her attitude and hostility have much to be desired. How do you sleep at night? I personally, do not know Evelyn Prouty, nor have I ever met her. However, I admire her tenacity, and her obvious pride not only in maintaining ...
Cantu responds to Pinkerton’s housing element comments
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I have reviewed City Manager Steve Pinkerton's response to my comments regarding the need for a housing element update, and I provide the following response. Mr. Pinkerton, I see that you have reviewed the California Department of Housing website. You are correct, housing element law requires periodic update of the element, the state notes five years. However, I believe you have missed the point. My issue is not with whether the housing ...
Street fair successful thanks to volunteers & sponsors
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Our 12th annual Crossroads Street Faire has come & gone and I would like to thank all of our wonderful volunteers that helped make this year's faire our best ever. We had close to 100 volunteers that were up at 3:30 a.m. to assist our 400 vendors with check-in and setup and many of those volunteers stayed for the entire weekend. A special thanks goes out to our wonderful committee many who ...
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