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California takes from the poor to help wealthy Telsa drivers
Struggling to make your car payment? Take solace in knowing your annual $20 smog abatement fee is hard at work helping those who earn $150,000 and more to buy electric cars. State of California data show those who typically receive the $1,000 state rebate on top of the $7,500 federal tax credit when they buy an electric car make 2.5 times the median household income in California. In other words, they can afford to buy ...
Why we need to expand the Stockton landfill
The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors will hear a lot of reasons on Tuesday why expanding the for-profit landfill on Austin Road is a bad idea.
State may ‘profit’ $300M from eight San Bruno pipeline explosion deaths
PG&E isn't without sin when it comes to not following the rules. There are numerous documented cases of the utility asking for rate increases to do specific things such as replace aging power poles or repairing and upgrading natural gas lines and then failing to do so. It happened because the supposed public watchdog - the California Public Utilities Commission - was either asleep or too cozy with PG&E. PG&E's seemingly cavalier attitude toward natural ...
Sleep on this: Another government fee penalizing the innocent among us
Oakland has a problem. Well, OK, Oakland has a lot of problems. But one of their problems is about to cost you upwards of $14 every time you buy a mattress. That's because the California Legislature is coming to Oakland's rescue the only way they know by imposing fees on law-abiding citizens. Oakland spends about $500,000 a year collecting more than 5,000 mattresses that are dumped on city streets. The city that has more problems ...
George Orwell would of loved driverless cars
I'm not exactly a Luddite. New technology has to prove itself before I'll embrace it. I resisted getting a cell phone for years but within a year of having one I ditched the personal land line. Within months of finally buying an iPad less than two years ago, I gave away my personal computer. And shortly after finally getting an iPhone and actually starting to text, I discovered people half my age who told me ...
Want to spend like a Powerball winner? Then go to the movies
I took the grandkids to the movies Saturday. No, I wasn't the Big Powerball winner nor did I inherit a couple million of dollars. That said a movie theater is about the only place you feel you have to fill out a credit application to buy candy. I understand the price of everything goes up. But what cost me 75 cents as a kid in 1963 to see the original "101 Dalmatians" cartoon movie and ...
The global war that doesn’t grab headlines
There is a global war going on. When it ends in a few years, there won't be screaming headlines or 24/7 coverage on cable TV news shows. Yet the end of what has been a 28-year battle so far will mark a major milestone in civilization. The war is the global eradication of polio. Once a dreaded scourge of childhood even in the United States, a concerted effort by the 1.2-million member strong Rotary International ...
The Winchester Mystery House on Arch Road
The Winchester Mystery House is much more apropos to house California's Department of Education rather than the nondescript box marring the Capitol Mall in Sacramento.
Glendale Unified brings real world of social media snooping to students
What is worse: Bullying or spying? It is never fun to be the subject of bullying. Take it from someone who was taunted from time-to-time in school with endearing words such as "fatso," "four-eyes," and "klutz" accompanied by shoving and laughing. Being bullied was much better than if I had been subjected to my personal conversations with friends being monitored 24/7 year round by school district personnel doing so because they were concerned about student ...
How playing Double Jeopardy cost us $3.6B
What's in a name? That's a $6.4 billion question. There is a move afoot to name the western span of the Bay Bridge after Willie Brown. Willie Brown is a former two-term mayor of San Francisco who - unless term limits are dropped - will hold the record in perpetuity of being the longest serving Assembly Speaker in California history. He held that position for 14 years. There are liberal politicians in San Francisco who ...
Performing arts center could be next act for Best Buy space
The Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley, as some contend, is not a failing shopping complex. Even after a San Jose store opens in the next few years, Bass Pro Shops promises to continue as a retail juggernaut for Orchard Valley as well as for municipal sales tax receipts. To be sure, Orchard Valley got caught in The Great Recession. The last nail in Bass Pro was driven just as the housing crash started in 2006. ...
TIGHT LINES
For 50 years I have been both fascinated and concerned about a beautiful and extremely rare little purple trout, the Paiute Cutthroat Trout, (Salmo Clarki Seleniris). Paiutes could well be the rarest trout in the world. They are so rare because they are native to only one section of one stream in the entire world. I'd say that's pretty rare. Paiutes were originally found isolated between two waterfalls on a stretch of Silver King Creek, ...
Guns, not words on paper,secured Americans’rights
I don't drive a pickup truck with a gun rack. I don't hunt. I've never fired a weapon and never intend to do so. With all of that said, I consider attempts to gut the words of the Founding Farmers in the Second Amendment as an assault on our collective freedom. Those 27 well-chosen words are what set us apart from other people. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free ...
Uncle Sam not working as hard as many ‘illegal immigrants’
Sergio Garcia worked his way through college and law school. The 36-year-old Chico resident passed the California State Bar Exam in 2009. Yet he can't practice law in the Golden State. The reason: The federal government is blocking his admission to the state bar because he is an "illegal" immigrant. At first glance, one might think this is a case of someone not wanting to be a citizen or either being here legally on a ...
It’s fair to say what ails SJ Fair is its location
Is the San Joaquin County Fair worth saving? Can it be saved at its current location? The San Joaquin County Fair Board posed the first question, but not the second when they sent hundreds of letters out to community members in a bid to get them to attend a Sept. 23 meeting designed to set a course aimed at preventing the 153-year-old county fair from going down for the count. The fairgrounds itself is financially ...
Articles by Section - Local Columns
Pull the plug on expanding national park wireless service
I am not a Luddite.
Of bullies, drinking, & public prayer
I hate it when the conservatives are right.
Manteca going downhill? Here’s three reasons why that isn’t true
Why is the future bright for Manteca?
Amazing how big, bad killers fear the needle
Ronald Phillips fears needles.
He lived life with a light & caring heart
Les Reile stood tall all his life with a passion for the underdog. Those touched by his smile, his endless stories and his love for all will keep his memory tucked safely in their hearts. Les was a man who was always thinking about what he could do for others, not what any of those he held close could do for him.
Megan’s Law style website for potentially dangerous dogs
There were almost 4.5 million dog bites in the United States during 2012.
Be very, very frightened if I ever again play a Sousaphone
Daniel Baughman was a saint.
Manteca needs big splash with water tank color & graphic design
Sacramento has Sleep Train Arena.
Mom, the impromptu hunchback
Halloween wasn't really my thing as a kid.
It’s time to cut to the chase: We need to tax Halloween candy
San Francisco is the latest city to contemplate sin taxes on soda.
The new world ruled by social media zombies
We have come a long way since Flight 90.
AK-47 era: Play time is no longer cops & robbers
•Seventy law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty during 2012 in the United States. Forty-nine of them were gunned down.
Psst. Want some street grade Oreos?
The latest abuse of rats comes from Connecticut College.
Insurance isn’t meant to be a lottery ticket
Why are insurance rates so high?
Firms believe it is better to take from Manteca than to give
Giving isn't a two-way street for some corporations.
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