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We must get back to being a community
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, We must compliment Scott Sadlowski on his letter to the editor of July 10 "Reflecting on Baby Boom". First and foremost I agree that everyone should see the movie "Defiance" it is based on a true story from Nazi Germany during World War II and how people came together for survival. There were problems in the group as in any venture but in the end over 1200 people had bonded into a ...
Legalize concealed weapons not pot
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, On TV today, the news and talk shows are touting the legalization of marijuana as the next best tax thing to help California. Like the Lotto and Indian gambling, they say their taxes on this drug will pay for the schools, etc. This sounds suspiciously like other deficit paying snake oil promises we have been sold in the past. Actually, I have often wondered where all the money has gone that the ...
Pot should be taxed & regulated like alcohol
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Excess is death and moderation is life. Really Dennis, your anti-Berkeley bias (Dennis Wyatt's July 10 column: "Hey man, like tax me, like a lot, like now") is shooting your professional journalistic integrity right out of the saddle! Is this not a free society? Nothing that isn't overtly dangerous should be made arbitrarily illegal. No commonly used herb, commodity or comestible should be denied to any free adult in America. We ...
Stop assuming pot is dangerous
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, You recently wrote a column for the Manteca Bulletin titled, "Hey, man, like tax me, like a lot, like now". I'll abstain from attempting to criticize this tired, dated "impersonation" of what you deem marijuana smokers to sound and think like, because doing so would be participating in said (untrue) cliché. After all, abstinence works, right? I couldn't help but notice that while you claim that MPP's ad is "empirical evidence" that ...
Manteca needs to stop adding new city parks
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, It is hard for me to understand this Manteca City Council and the city in terms of the direction they are taking us to address the deficit. First the city breaks private maintenance contracts and tells us the level of service won't be reduced. Then the Bulletin discloses that the city park maintenance will be cut by a third. Then they want to add more parks in the city they can't service. ...
In defense of Councilman Hernandez
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, This is in response to Fred Millner's letter in Wednesday's Manteca Bulletin: I have read your progressively personal, negative letters regarding Manteca Councilman Vince Hernandez. I have a hard time understanding how a negative, angry person like you has any leg to stand on. I would like to know who makes you the authority on the "city functions" or how the city operates! Have you ever suggested positive, constructive ideas rather than ...
Reflecting on Baby Boom/Me Generation
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I just recently celebrated, or should I say acknowledged, a milestone birthday, the one where they send you an application for an AARP card. As is usually the case, I took some time to retrospect on the things that I have seen or been party to. I am at the age where I was at the end of the Baby Boom. I don't consider myself of that generation, but there are those ...
No more furloughs, instead stop services to illegal aliens
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Governor Schwarzenegger has said that he will use his executive powers to again reduce state employees' salaries another 5% with another furlough day to make it a 20% reduction in pay. Ask yourself why he is trying to balance the state budget using pay, which won't work, rather than by reducing programs to illegal aliens. He says illegal programs only account for $5 billion of the $26 billion that the budget is ...
Supports council on stopping dog park, tree project
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The Editor of the Bulletin seemed to both praise and condemn the council for its actions on rejecting the dog park and Moffat tree project. It is my opinion that the council made a responsible decision, based on increased cost on maintenance. I support the decision made by council lady Debby Moorhead and councilmen Steve DeBrum and Vince Hernandez. They have shown the public they are serious about weeding out low priority ...
City of Manteca sacrifices private sector jobs
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The following comments are in response to the editor notations at the end of my comments published on Monday, July 6. Apparently, I misread and misunderstood the article and the establishment of landscape maintenance districts in Manteca. And, perhaps the word "defunct" was too pointed, maybe I should have framed my comments to reflect the purpose of landscape maintenance districts (LMD) and the loss of jobs. Perhaps the clue I missed was ...
It’s conservatives vs. liberals not Demos vs. Republicans
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, It is time to make perfectly clear that today's political stage is not between the Democratic party and the Republican party. When in reality it is between the liberals, who support big government (ala California), and conservatives who believe smaller government is the answer and that the Republican party has drifted too far to the left so there is a concerted effort to bring the GOP back to the conservative agenda that ...
Appreciates city council stopping two park projects
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Manteca City Council members Steve DeBrum, Vince Hernandez and Debby Moorhead have my congratulations and thanks for stopping two projects likely to experience large and increasing maintenance costs while revenues are flat at best, or most likely, declining. Thank you for considering the city as a whole as the most important consideration. Your action is truly pre-emergent treatment to slow rapid cost growth. The Bulletin's recently published $62 million park wants listing ...
Hopefully they don’t vandalize placebo cop cars
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Regarding your story about placebo police cars in Manteca: I remember reading that this was tried in New York years ago. The program was abandoned when they found that the unattended police cars often ended up vandalized and on blocks with the wheels stolen. Manteca is not New York, but I hope they considered this possibility. Dave Ventura Manteca July 7, 2009
Palin crosses the Bridge to Nowhere
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, If ever there were any question as to the character of Sara Palin, there certainly shouldn't be any now. As we all know by now, Sara Palin announced her plans to, well, have no plans at all. Her, what can only be described as an inscrutable resignation speech, clarified nothing, and then expounded on more nothing. Her reasons for quitting turned out to be a game of 52-pickup, tossing up the cards ...
Hernandez & Moorhead should both resign from City Council
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Manteca Councilman Vince Hernandez, who failed to show up last July for the block party held on Cowell Street in his "old neighborhood" on July 4th, concerning the gang issue, suddenly shows up this year on July 4th, 2009. This time there was no gang problem. This time councilman Hernandez appears out of nowhere showing up just as most people had already left, chit-chatting, with a few people to make it look ...
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