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City needs to slow traffic on Union Road
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I don't know if you've had the pleasure of trying to make a turn from Wawona Street to Union Road lately, but it can be a scary adventure. After making a stop on Wawona on Thursday, I inched my way out and tried to make a right turn. Only to be met by traffic flying along Union at more than the 35 mile an hour speed limit. After there Wawona, southbound traffic's ...
Help save JROTC at Manteca High
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, On May 18, on a field near Manteca High School, a remarkable thing happened. The Manteca High School JROTC held its annual Sports and Awards Day Ceremony. In any normal year, this would be a memorable event, but would not be particularly remarkable. However, this was not a normal year. You see, in March, the Manteca High School JROTC lost both of its instructors at the same time. So without outside leadership ...
Some questions for Democrats
Editor, Manteca Bulletin I would like our local democRATs to explain the lies about your president, Mr. Community Organizer in Chief. He has spent $800,000 fighting his hidden birth certificate because he was born in Indonesia. We have elected a fraud as president. He is not even an American born citizen. But rules don't apply to democRATS! They change the rules as they go along; but sure are quick to question others. I guess they ...
State should recognize ‘secular marriages’
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Dennis Wyatt proposed an interesting solution to the gay marriage controversy by suggesting, "the state should only recognize civil unions period." Marriage would then be confined to religious ceremonies only. Although this option would result in equal treatment for heterosexual or same-sex unions by the state (a worthy goal), I find it ironic that those seeking to "defend" or "preserve" marriage, by their unwillingness to share the term, are actually causing it ...
Semantics make great difference in marriage debate
Editor, Manteca Bulletin Yes, semantics make a great difference when you are dealing with this subject. Despite what everyone says, those who are in "civil unions" are not treated the same as those who are "married". I have no problem with churches only "marrying" those they wish, but I do have a problem with any disparity in treatment by governments and others. Until we can get everyone (including other sovereign nations) to treat these groups ...
Rebuild entire state government from ground up
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I am in agreement with Dennis Wyatt's, 'Op Ed "Time to dismantle Sacramento and rebuild from the ground up." However, I would like to see it taken a step further, in which the entire state government be rebuilt from the ground up. All his common sense reasons and points could and should be applied to the rest of Sacramento to include all levels of government. As to the budget, my understanding is, ...
Impressed with Phil Waterford’s gift to a veteran
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I was deeply moved by Mr. Phil Waterford's gift of a car to a fellow veteran. It appears that he really understands how precious life is, after coming so close to losing his. I personally think they threw the mold away when this gentlemen was created. He sure instilled a feeling in the men he was so generous to in believing someone cares. This was an act straight from this man's heart, ...
Try Twittering before trashing it
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I'm responding to Jeff Lund's column on Twitter on Wednesday, May 27. I'm always amazed when people write about what they don't understand. I was skeptical, until I tried it myself. It's amazing how energetic, quick and effective communication can be, once you try to fit your message into 140 characters. I'm perplexed when he hints about not having real communication, that Twitter has somehow replaced authentic relationships. I just came back ...
Maybe we need part-time legislature
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I am one of your avid followers, and I have a suggestion that I would like to see aired for what it's worth. Our legislators are sitting on their butts up in Sacramento for almost a full year figuring how to spend more money that we don't have as well as drawing big salaries and many "PERKS." Why not have them paid on a "NEED" basis? In other words, I don't believe ...
Young people have no idea about Vietnam
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I'm a retired Army sergeant and find this to be the absolute truth. Most of our middle aged and very young people have no idea what we went through during the Vietnam era and Cuban conflict. To them it is just something to read about. They don't believe the true stories that their grand fathers and elderly fathers tell them. (It's only in movies, not real at all.) It's impossible to believe ...
Aquila overlooks one key Social Security issue
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, This is in reference to Mr. Aquila's article on the "Coming collapse of Social Security": He has overlooked one of the main issues that have cause and effect of the failure of the system itself. I feel there is no need to go back to 1935 when the system was started. The system was designed to help those people who found themselves destitute with no money or support. The system was also ...
Takes Elder to task for calling Obama a Marxist
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I'll take the bait even if I do not see any evidence of President Obama being anything like a Marxist. Larry Elders cites how private business built the first subway in New York City. In that case I'll cite how General Motors bought the Red Line transit system in Los Angeles and drove it out of business so that it could force the use of automobiles. What is in the financial interests ...
Worries about safety of people on electric scooters
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I am writing to encourage the paper to write an article on safety for the summer. This comes from a concern. Recently I was driving down Locust Avenue and found a person in an electric powered assistance chair going down the middle of the street! There was no bright orange flag on the chair to bring attention to the traffic that they were there. My concern is that there are many individuals ...
Use dog license surcharge better animal shelter instead
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The Manteca City Council is considering raising dog license on the population, to make us pay for maintenance on a dog park that the majority of dog owners won't even use. They propose spending a huge chunk of park money to erect this park. It wasn't too long ago that the council was soliciting neighborhood volunteers to erect play equipment for the parks, to save $30,000 to the city. The volunteers simply ...
Credit changes hurt country
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, How sad that hard working American people cannot count on their elected representatives to protect them from unfair business practices. Two years ago, based on my debt to income ratio and ignoring my stellar payment history, four of my credit cards with the highest balances raised my interest rates to the maximum 24% to 30% causing my monthly minimum payments to jump up to $350. They became completely unmanageable causing me to ...
Articles by Section - Letters
Manteca should consider creating a homeless camp
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Pilkington’s jobs worth effort to try & save for region
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Says Manteca on verge of fiscal collapse for 40 years
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Air district probably happy about plant closing
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Killer is only controlled by meds
Editor's note: Based on the situation and where the writer of this letter lives in Manteca we have withheld her name.
People should drive & not look at water tank mural
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Wrong to take Bible out of “Eaglehearts” mural
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