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Hey, dude! That’s not my cup of tea
"Dude! It's cold! Shorts?"
Manteca benefits from Amazon locating in Tracy
Tracy landed an Amazon fulfillment center and an accompanying 1,000 jobs.
See you later, alligator!
EDITOR'S NOTE: Ripon's Pinky Hawes died unexpectedly Friday following complications from an elective surgery in the Bay Area. Hawes was widely known in the Ripon community for her contributions to children, to education, to her church, to her family and to sports activities. Funeral services are tentatively set for Wednesday at Deegan Funeral Home in Ripon. The following is a column about her life that appeared in The Bulletin some six years ago shortly ...
Forget algebra, what about a life math class?
Not making algebra a mandatory eighth grade subject in California schools has all the usual suspects in a tizzy.
Texas governor is California dreaming just like a lot of folks
Everything is bigger in Texas. Including the egos of their politicians. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is heading to California. His objective is to steal jobs. A Rhode Island-sized radio campaign – $24,000 worth of paid spots – preceded his pilgrimage to the cutting-edge land known as California. Perry's spiel is that he's heading here because it's hard to do ...
Weighty debate: Is being heavy a sure sign of an early demise?
Can we stop being fixated with Gov. Chris Christie's weight?
Bay Area more restrictive than Manteca in public forum free speech
Freedom of speech is alive and well in Manteca. The same goes for many San Joaquin Valley communities.
Keep Manson disciple behind bars for his part in two murders
If I were governor, hell would have to freeze over and Twinkies would have to be certified as organic health food before Bruce Davis would walk out of prison.
Judge blocks IRS from helping H&R Block squish the competition
There is nothing more dreadful than the IRS in terms of confusing heavy-handedness. But the IRS teaming up with big corporations takes bullying to a new level. Thanks to the Institute of Justice and District of Columbia federal judge James Boasberg, Americans have been spared a merger between the tax world equivalent of Satan and his disciples. The IRS – at the prodding of H&R Block and Intuit – tried to make it illegal for ...
A penny for your thoughts costs 2.41 cents
The odds are you are swimming in pennies. You probably have hundreds scattered around your house, car and office desk. There was a time when pennies could actually buy things such as penny candy. Those days are long gone. Now it is rare for anyone to pick up a penny they see on the sidewalk. And to make it worse, it now costs 2.41 cents to make each of the 6 billion pennies minted each ...
Strangers lend a helping hand for strangers
A scruffy-looking man and woman were asking for help with a cardboard sign Saturday afternoon at Yosemite and Commerce avenues.
Clambake part of 30-year Super Bowl party tradition
There are Super Bowl parties. Chicken wings and seven-layer dip and solo cups and friends – the perfect combination for a football-themed soiree. And then there is the clambake that Mike and Teri Farrell have been perfecting for the last three decades. Sure it has all of the fixings that you'd expect to find a normal Super Bowl Party – chicken wings and seven-layer dip and…you get the idea. But it also has history on ...
Cursive writing going the way of the slide rule?
Here's a shocker. The Founding Fathers did not keyboard the Declaration of Independence. And because of that, a growing number of young people can't read the actual document. They're not illiterate. They just can't read cursive script handwriting. More and more public schools are abandoning handwriting. They believe it is an archaic form of communication. ...
49er DIEHARDS
You say you got spirit … that the team colors course through your veins? Show me. You say you've loved this team for years and cheered them through all the ups and downs? Prove it. My search for the ultimate San Francisco 49ers fan took me to the east side of town, out where city streets turn into country roads. It took me through a set of double doors and into a sitting room, where ...
CBS gets special treatment from city while Manteca firms get the shaft
The rich and powerful. They do get special treatment. If you doubt that, drive down Moffat Boulevard. Just west of Powers Avenue along the railroad tracks you will find three illegal signs. There used to be four. The three illegal signs are owned by CBS. They are billboards. Since 23007, the corporation has willfully ignored ...
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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."
7,000 crosses turn Woodward Park into hallowed ground
God and country.
Gang of eight betrays Americans
The Gang of Eight immigration bill can be summed up as amnesty now, border closing never. The Department of Homeland Security is not required to build a fence (which was ordered by the Secure Fence Act signed by President George W. Bush). DHS is required only to submit a plan.
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