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Next time just let the kids play
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, My dearly departed father always had a quip about life that at the time more often than not seemed way out in left field, but in hindsight was right over the plate. One of his favorites was, "You never know from where you are sitting what the band is going to play next." Well, what happened Monday night at Paul Weston Park proved the old man right once again. As a sports ...
Can city afford $50,000 a year for 99 maintenance?
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The Manteca Bulletin outlined projects that the city is supposed to put out for bids or has accepted the bids already on or will call for them at their next regular meeting. I question one project that will add a permanent annual cost to the city, at a time when yet another deficit is looming on the horizon. The project is interchange landscaping and median dividers at Highway 99 and Yosemite Avenue. ...
Simoni doesn’t back up points with facts or logic
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, James Simoni's letter (June 22, 2009) is an example of the low level of argumentation recently seen in the letters section of the Manteca Bulletin. Mr. Simoni makes a series of statements which he does not back up by facts or logic. He simply expects us to accept his opinions as the truth. Here are some of the unsupported statements which flow out of his Monday diatribe: 1. Larry Baca is a ...
Thanks to those who serve America
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Not long after arriving at my parents' home on Father's Day, my sister handed me the Saturday edition of The Bulletin and showed me the letter from Penny Winston regarding her Marine son and the hateful comment made by a complete stranger wishing for his death. My first thought was. ..I suppose the pick-up driver was just outraged by his belief that we are fighting a war about oil... as he sped ...
This is a God-fearing country
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I recently read an article about President Bush. He was asked to comment on our President. His reply: the President has a very hard job. He did not agree with him on all things. He wished him well and success. Bush said this because he loved our country more than politics. Why do you continue to publish the childish letters calling people DemoRats? Also, this is not a Christian country. It is ...
200 block of W. Yosemite is becoming a skid row
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I am in opposition to licensing Club Leon's as a dance hall in the downtown as it has in the past and present affected the attraction of family oriented businesses. We have endured vandalism such as graffiti, destroyed awnings and the stench of urine in the entry areas of local businesses. It all started with the approval of the Bucktooth Billiards. This location has been a problem and blight on the downtown ...
Weatherford is not the Ayatollah
Editor, Manteca Bulletin Recently the mayor in a Bulletin story told the people to move on, about their complaining about the nuisance bulbs in the city streets. This is his way of getting people to give up their right to be heard on this issue. This may come as a surprise to the mayor, but he works for the people and they don't have to give up their rights, because he wants the issue to ...
Missing the point about Brietenbucher letter
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, This is in response to Mr. McComas' opinion piece regarding Ms. Breitenbucher's new position at Manteca Unified School District. Mr. McComas, if you read my opinion piece thoroughly, you would have noticed that the majority of the piece was in regards to the alleged hiring of multiple high priced consultants to train Ms. Breitenbucher in her new position, as senior director of business services by Manteca Unified School District. If consultants are ...
City sailing into unchartered waters
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The following is a copy of a letter sent to our city manager in response to his comments on the city workers maintaining the LMDs. There is no further comment needed. Mr. Pinkerton. This letter is in response to your information letter to the public in Friday's Manteca Bulletin editorial regarding the city taking over the Landscape Maintenance Districts (LMDs,) I am currently one of those private contractors. We have been maintaining ...
Thank you for your Marine son’s service
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I would like to personally thank the Winston family for their son's courageous service to the U.S. Marine Corp and to our country. Free speech is one thing, but for a person to purposely hurl venomous insults at a member of our nation's armed forces and wish them dead (like what was described in Saturday's Bulletin "Letter to the Editor" column) at the very least shows no class nor respect, and ...
Complete confidence in Jacqui Breitenbucher
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, This letter is in response to Ms. Robertson's letter about Jacqui Breitenbucher. Ms. Robertson's main point was that Jacqui is not qualified for the top business position at Manteca Unified School District. Ms. Robertson claims that Jacqui does not have the experience for this position and (rumor) has is Jacqui will need a top notch consultant to train her. I personally know Jacqui and her family very well. I know what she ...
Thanking Marine for his service
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, This is in regards to the letter to the editor, in the Saturday, June 20, 2009 edition of the Manteca Bulletin, entitled "Stranger hopes her Marine son is killed in Iraq War," from Penny Winston. Dear Editor and Penny Winston: My husband spent 6 years in the Marine Corps and received a purple heart in the Korean War. When he returned he spent almost 3 years at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot ...
Was school board wise moving Breitenbucher?
Editor Manteca Bulletin, I found the article regarding the hiring of Ms. Jacqui Breitenbucher for the top business position (senior director of business services) for Manteca Unified School District quite interesting. While it is explained in the article that Ms. Breitenbucher has been with Manteca Unified School District since 1993, none of these years have been in the business office, at the district office. It is also mentioned that Ms. Breitenbucher spent several years in ...
Time for a moratorium on small-mindedness
Editor Manteca Bulletin, Every morning as I skim through our paper for town news, I force myself to glance at the Opinion section, hoping against hope that I will see the name of a new writer at the bottom of a non-divisive and thought-provoking editorial opinion. However, it's usually the same tired rhetoric from members of the "label club" - you know, those who label others in a disparaging way to elevate themselves (i.e. Republicans, ...
Stranger hopes her Marine son is killed in Iraq war
Editor Manteca Bulletin, Freedom of speech has gone too far this week. I was driving down Louise Avenue with my children in my car. My daughter noticed a man in a white pickup that was looking in our car and laughing. As he pulled up even with me, I looked over and he yelled towards my car; "Is your son a Marine?" I responded, "Yes", being a proud mom. His next comment stunned me ...
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