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Hoping Obama will have better year
Last year when I made my annual pilgrimage to my mom's house to watch the New Year's college bowl festival at her neighbor's house, I told her that for the first time in recent memory I was not counting down the days until the calendar could be turned to start a new year because I was anxious to shed myself of the last one. I told her that for once, things had not been too bad and life was all right.
Driving & dying on Manteca’s 120 Bypass
Driving the Highway 120 Bypass is a thrill a minute.
PG&E putting profits over safety? Never
Get ready for PG&E rate hike Armageddon.
Environmental perfection claims another 118 jobs
Clean air, or perhaps more precisely, environmental perfection is the killer of blue collar head-of-household jobs in the San Joaquin Valley.
Buying a $75 Holiday Affair ticket can save a teen’s life
Joann Jamerson asked a simple question: Why do I buy a $75 ticket each year to the Manteca Soroptimists' Holiday Affair if I rarely go?
Traffic surgeons at city hall block Manteca arterial
Manteca has sealed the fate of Austin Road residents north of Highway 99.
The hardcore homeless in Manteca aren’t going anywhere
The man was fast asleep.
Uncle Sam helps create some poverty
Here are two questions to ponder:
Who in their right mind rakes leaves?
I saw the kid walking down the sidewalk out of the corner of my eye as I was raking leaves. He was perhaps 9 or 10 years old.
Twin Tunnels: LA prospers, Fortune 500 farmers thrive & SJ County dies
Lo Angeles, in its present form, should not exist.
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.
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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.
Why SSJID is making the right call for us to conserve water
They were crazy. They were reckless. They didn't know what they were talking about. They'd put the community into debt and send everyone into bankruptcy.
Me? I wasn’t there
I've recently encountered a strange new phenomenon sweeping the community. It goes by several names: "I was never Here-itis" or "Don't use that Quote-emia." Some people stricken by this don't realize for a day or two and then catch "Post Event Regrettia." The personal satisfaction I receive upon getting a phone call or text the next day, the one informing me "I wasn't there – keep me out of the column," is very short-lived. For one, I'm quite adept at reading the room and am not looking to cause collateral damage with this column. Secondly, and ...
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