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Stay tuned for the next episode of ‘Comcast in the Crazy City’
Manteca's city leaders have 642,000 reasons why they want to keep Comcast customers happy.
Card swiping & electronic consumer DNA
I spend anywhere from $80 to $120 a week at Target now that I do a good chunk of my grocery shopping there.
High court triggers big crime wave
Car stolen? You might be able to thank Justice Anthony Kennedy.
The never-ending debate over shortcuts
Take the freeway – we'll get there faster."
Delivery drones: Get ready for high tech locust
The time may come when we refer to the good old days as when leaf blowers and cranked up music at parties along with buzzing flies were the most annoying sounds in our neighborhoods.
High speed rail business plan: Hell or high water
HANFORD - Dairy farmers in these parts – and the rest of California for that matter – do not operate in a fantasy world.
OLD GEEZERS
John Perez Sr. pulled into the stadium parking lot nearly three hours before kickoff and was still tardy to the tailgate party.
Flush the water tank art idea down the toilet
The nice thing about the 3.7 million water tank going up on Atherton Drive is that you won't see much of it.
By far the best fall I’ve ever taken
"Fill my heart with song and let me sing forever more." - from Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon"
Need a lawyer to strike it rich? Call LUV-2SUE
Editor's note: This column first ran on May 12, 1997
The sagging economy & sagging pants
Editor's note: This column first appeared on Oct. 14, 2003.
About those tax & spend council liberals
Editor's Note: This column first appeared on July, 1, 2003
PETA motto: Everybody needs beer
Editor's Note: This column first appeared on Sept. 26, 2006.
Long live the Bay Nation!
Editor's note: This column first appeared May 4, 2003
How the Grinch stole prosperity from folks in Weneedjobsville
Editor's note: This column first appeared on Dec. 22, 2002.
Articles by Section - Local Columns
Special day for teens
Curtiss Beyers was lured onto the dance floor by the opening beat of the opening number of Thursday's special-needs Valentine's Day Dance.
A sign that romance still flourishes today
The kid looked guilty.
Strings attached to money is what ails public schools
Money is what is wrong with public education.
The drought & presidential photo ops
President Barack Obama is no FDR.
A beautiful root
It is with a heavy heart that I write this week's column. The unexpected loss of family member Janet Teicheira on Friday morning has left us in a state of mourning and disbelief. Janet is my father's first-cousin; they were a few months apart in age. That fact alone made her much more an aunt than a cousin. Being part of a large Portuguese family, you are taught generational respect at an early age. The Teicheiras of my dad's generation (the third in Manteca are more like aunts and uncles and the generation above them were revered ...
Crabs, silent movies & rose petals await
Crab feeds are far from over, and on Saturday, Feb. 15, you can eat as much crab as you want at the fifth annual crab feed fund-raiser for St. Anthony's School in the school gymnasium, 323 N. Fremont Ave. Kicking off the evening will be a wine and cheese tasting at 5 p.m. (back by popular demand), followed by dinner at 6:30 plus a no-host bar, dessert auction, live and silent auctions, music, and dancing. Tickets are $50 apiece. For more info contact the school office at 823-4513.
Woohoo! My pants are starting to get baggy!
Day 22
Californians pay for cleaner air in Georgia
How does planting trees in Georgia reduce air pollution in California?
No summit is without challenges
The mountains in our lives are much more challenging to summit than Mission Peak, that's for sure.
Why shouldn’t jail inmates pay toward the cost of feeding them?
Three hots and a cot.
Three powerful forces converge at neighborhood CVS drug stores
CVS drug stores will no longer going to sell cigarettes after Oct. 1.
RISKY BUSINESS
He is about 6 feet tall and as sturdy and tough as a Redwood.
The $76 million question: Will Great Wolf fly with investors?
The details that matter aren't public yet in the Great Wolf negotiations.
So who is the bigger bad boy: Bieber or Sinatra?
I cannot name a Justin Bieber song.
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