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United States of America: Made by labor
The temperatures are still in the 90s. The calendar says it is a good three dozen days until the start of fall. Yet there are signs that summer is drawing to a close. The continuous line of traffic heading east to the Sierra through Manteca on Fridays is tapering off. Almond trees are heavy with a crop of nuts that are already being shaken to the ground. The infamous Manteca Bermuda grass is starting to ...
Helping needy: Slamming farmers while praising Internet billionaires
Come October literally hundreds if not thousands of tons of "food" will be plowed under throughout San Joaquin County.
Memo to Cowsills: Cover my head with hair? If that were the only place, I’d be happy
I admit I'm a candidate for the missing link. I have no problem growing hair. Unfortunately, it is in places where I wish it wouldn't grow. I realized this long before the first Christmas package my mother-in-law gave me included a battery-operated nose hair clipper. (They don't work, by the way.) I can shave at 7 a.m. and by noon I've put Fred Flintstone and Richard Nixon both to shame. A study by Gillette claims ...
The working poor discover 29 + 49 + 89 adds up to less money & still no healthcare
During the early stages of the foreclosure crisis I got into a heated phone exchange with Congressman Jerry McNerney's communications director.
If $150 fee goes away Cal Fire needs “George Runner Rule”
Wildfires, they say, are getting worse. Even as the Rim Fire scorches hundreds of square miles of forest just 75 miles east of here we debate whether allowing fires to burn naturally or aggressively attacking them is a better way to stop a repeat of such infernos. Shouldn't the real debate be our development patterns? Wildfires per se haven't gotten worse. It's the damage they inflict that has skyrocketed. Just 165 years ago pioneers marveled ...
‘This is where we’ll fight it, boys’
MI-WUK VILLAGE – It's going to take more than a bucket of water and hoses to extinguish the Rim Fire.
Southside Park: The city cuts the grass, gangs own the turf
Southside is unlike any other city park. Actually, you can argue at times that it isn't a city park. The city cuts the grass but the turf belongs to the gangs. If you doubt that go to the park that's just a skip and a holler or two away from Manteca's gleaming $7 million transit station. Pull up to the curb to take your kids to use the playground equipment and the odds are at ...
Remember the good old days when saying ‘I’m bored’ wasn’t a prelude to a thrill kill
"We were bored and didn't have anything to do so we decided to kill somebody." - what one of three teen suspects in a thrill kill told police in Oklahoma.
Would Louisa Clapp view her namesake ‘lane’ as ugly today?
Louisa Clapp arrived in what is now known as Manteca in 1849 with her husband Noah. The couple started a wheat farm. For the longest time they were the only ones living on a dirt road they dubbed Louisa Avenue. Then one day the county put up signs. But instead of the signs reading "Louisa" it read "Louise" instead. Years later when Mrs. Clapp was asked why she didn't have the name corrected, she reportedly ...
Manteca decides smoking in parks less obnoxious than Big Government
Manteca is not New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg's kind of town. That's because the Manteca City Council Tuesday dared to pose and answer the question: Is there a limit to Big Government? And the answer delivered by a split decision is "yes." In the Age of the Nanny State where everyone expects the government to do things for them and stop others from doing things they deem distasteful, the City Council stood up for arguably ...
Breathable air or drive-thru windows?
Enjoying the air quality of the last few days? If you do, keep finding opportunities to idle your vehicle as much as you can. The fact we live in either the No. 1 or No. 2 worst air basin in the country depending upon the type of pollution isn't debatable. Nor is the fact there has been a 97 percent reduction of the San Joaquin Valley exceeding one-hour ozone standards since 1995. And while new ...
Privacy, helmet cams, ‘The Truman Show’ & Big Brother
Face it. You are Jim Carrey and you are the star of "The Truman Show." Nothing in your life is too mundane to go virile. Brushing your teeth? That's 20 hits. Slipping on ice and falling on your rump? It is 1,958 hits. Try to get out of a bathroom you've been locked into via the window but losing your underwear in the process? That's probably 25,897 hits. Have your life taken by some crazed ...
No yolk. Uncle Sam may require $11.2B chicken cage investment
QUESTION: If a chicken rancher has 50,000 chickens and he has to pay $40 a hen for new roomier cages to meet a state mandate how much of the cost are consumers going to absorb?
Mother nature’s secret plan to kill us: Cow moo-thane
Got gas? California's 1.5 million cows do. And given that they generate over 30 million tons of manure a year and the fact one cow can emit between 100 and 200 liters of methane gas per day, they have been the target of government efforts to improve air quality for the past few years. Experts contend methane gas is 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon monoxide. That's why environmentalists have done ...
The disconnect between student debt & Zombie food picks
John Carney is a 31-year-old pursuing a master's degree in fine arts at the University of Maine.
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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