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Libbey-Owens-Ford retirees are everywhere you turn
We ran into a lot of friends this week at various events like Millie Bolding past employee at Libbey Owens Ford and Sharp Depot with her husband Graham (PG&E). They were their usual smiling happy people.
It’s time for Manteca City Council to stand up to CBS’ legal bullies
There are three two-sided billboards on Moffat Boulevard that are a testimony to the blatant misuse of Congressional power.
Going from ‘husky’ to ‘a bit more skoosh’ to baggy or too tight
It must be a conspiracy. Growing up I could never find any clothes that fit. Slim was in. The marketing name for pants that fit me was "husky" prior to turning 13 when I shed about 60 pounds to get down to 220 pounds. Virtually every shirt for a kid back then in my age group that was "husky" was either checkered or horizontal stripes. Whatever clothes designer came up with horizontal stripes for kids ...
The mercy of God
Today, the Sunday after Easter, Catholics honor the Mercy of God. Of course, we need God's mercy year 'round. So much needless cruelty and suffering in the world could be avoided - or at least overcome - -if mercy were in greater supply. Think, for example, of the senseless violence in our own neighborhoods. But Divine Mercy Sunday focuses in a special way on God's love at work through the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The golden days of Betty Bear at the Bulletin
Betty Bear is back. Well, not exactly. I came into work Friday and there she was on my chair – skirt, blouse and head. It was everything that made Betty Bear who she was although the paws and feet were missing. If you haven't been in Manteca for at least 15 years, then you've never met Betty Bear. She was the Manteca Bulletin's mascot for a kid's section we ran on Saturdays. We would run ...
City will fix the problem with Atherton Drive landscaping
The photo above shows the condition of the landscaping on Atherton Drive just south of the Bass Pro Shop. Last week's Bulletin article about landscaping standards noted that this area hasn't been adequately maintained by the contractor and the City hasn't provided the proper oversight to make sure the contractor maintains the landscaping.
The fight over Manteca’s fiscal future
Go out along Wellington Avenue on a Wednesday or Thursday morning and you'll see two to five men at work.
Memory lives on in Cooperstown
Years ago, I had a chance to visit the baseball shrine in Cooperstown, New York. At the time, Dan Mooney, a college friend, was working as sports reporter for the Poughkeepsie Journal. He had visited the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and came away overwhelmed. Dan rooted for the Atlanta Braves, crediting the 1974 season when Hank Aaron eclipsed the career home run mark. Hammerin' Hank finished with 755 career home runs. As ...
Lathrop is for lawyers and liberal payouts
The City of Lathrop should be cautioned against ever opening a casino. The way they're running things they'd have looser slots than any casino in Reno. A city employee files a sexual harassment claim. Why litigate? Just hit up the tax payers - ka-ching! - for $500,000 to cover their losses after settling a claim in world-record time that hadn't even had a chance to turn into a lawsuit. The mayor doesn't like the harsh ...
Mentoring twins was an eye opener
I first met them about a year ago last year. They were the epitome of youth: energetic, exuberant, poised to conquer the world, eager to learn and experience everything that they can possibly learn and experience while deeply rooted in the moral compass and Christian ethics instilled in them by their parents.
College makes federal case out of praying in faculty office
Want to make educarts - those educators who morph into bureaucrats - squirm? Forget aggressive public signs of affection that are supposed to be taboo at public schools. Such acts won't raise a yawn in some quarters. Do something apparently that is disruptive and obscene as praying and get prepared to be suspended. That is what happened to two community college students - Kandy Kyriacou and Ojoma Omaga - when they had the audacity to ...
Getting Manteca’s affordable housing strategy in order
Is the city not making an effort to procure affordable housing in Manteca? Not exactly. Is Manteca doing all it can to promote affordable housing: No. Manteca leaders in a way have paid lip service to affordable housing over the past decade or so. The latest example was when they proclaimed the workforce housing crisis solved when prices started plunging so therefore they shelved recommendations by a committee they appointed to come up with strategies ...
Mothball aerial fire truck to save $1.1M annually
The day of reckoning is about to arrive. April revenue figures together with cost recovery strategies and cuts being put in place will give Manteca municipal leaders a clear picture of the bottom line. Depending upon those figures, Manteca may need to cut anywhere from $2 million to $4 million by July 1 to balance the 2009-10 budget. Unless something gives – employee group wage and benefit concessions at least on a temporary basis – ...
Going from sound walls to inviting travel corridors
The old walled city of Manteca was a forbidding place. It was a place where asphalt and concrete was king as nothing broke up monotonous corridors of asphalt, concrete and masonry walls save for a few stunted trees doing their best to avenge their treatment by having their roots push up nearby sidewalk. The sound walls attracted graffiti, hemmed in dust and debris, and served as a passive reservoir for the oppressive sun of summer ...
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To access City Manager Steve Pinkerton's blog go to www.ci.manteca.ca.us/blog/
Articles by Section - Local Columns
A pawn, a $350,000 study & taking $12M out of people’s pockets
One man's due diligence is costing more than 40,000 households, business, and farmers $12 million a year.
A virtually empty garage may be un-American by today’s standards
I'm a prime candidate for the Homeland Security watch list.
Apple isn’t rotten but the American taxing system is
Why does Uncle Sam insist on subsidizing rich people?
Twin Tunnels: Get ready for Owens Valley 2.0
Want to see the future of the Northern San Joaquin Valley?
Traffic officer: Toughest job in Manteca?
The toughest job in Manteca might just be the men who are part of the Manteca Police Department's traffic enforcement unit.
The winds have changed at 1001 W. Center St.
The City of Manteca has a new unofficial municipal motto: "This is the new norm."
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