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Now if only my IQ could match the phone I use
My IQ just dropped. It's the risk you take when buying a phone that's smarter than you – a lot smarter. I've been using a flip phone for the last six years. To those under 25, it was as if I were lugging around one of the old wall crank phones. You know the technology you have is about three centuries old when those just barely out of puberty refer to it politely as "old ...
Healthcare cost battle: Switching sticks for carrots
Get ready for the real healthcare crisis. A growing number of firms are being nailed with rising health insurance expenses. The consulting firm of Towers Watson projects corporate spending on health care will average $12,136 per employee this year. Firms that for years have tried soft sell approaches to get their workers to take personal responsibility for their health through offers of reduced gym memberships and such are now getting employees' attention with money. They ...
Sheriffs vowing to ignore the law is a scary trend
The next time someone takes an oath of office they might want to read the first 15 words in the constitution they're swearing to uphold.
Mom never tried to cash in her chips for anything
"Dancing With the Stars" has lost one its biggest fans. Late last month at the age of 96 my mother passed away.
High speed rail folks sue me & you & a dog named Boo
The $68 billion train wreck in the making – California High Speed Rail – continues rumbling down the tracks with all of the subtlety of General Sherman's march to the sea.
So what is it? Jobs, jobs, jobs or houses, houses, houses?
There's an election for mayor coming up in less than two years. Given that Manteca has a 12.8 percent unemployment rate - that's higher than Lathrop's by the way - one of the central issues should be jobs. Or to quote former Mayor Carlon Perry as Manteca was struggling to come out of the previous recession in the early 1990s, the issue is "jobs, jobs, jobs." "Jobs, jobs, jobs" wasn't on the mind of the ...
Stockton attains real world All America City status
Stockton is a two-time All America City recipient. Just three years after its last All America City honor, Stockton led the nation in foreclosures. Smirk all you want. While the awards are often full of more fluff than substance, Stockton today would qualify as a real All America City as opposed to the glamour contest version offered by the National Civic League. Unlike the version you preen for and send in an application with check ...
Brother, can you spare a dollar store?
There was a time when there was a gas station on every corner. Then it seemed like banks were multiplying faster than rabbits. And now the trend is the so-called dollar stores. Manteca's fifth dollar store - and second Dollar General - is getting ready to open at Powers and Yosemite avenues. They seem to be popping up in Manteca with the same intensity as pizza parlors, nail salons, and check cashing places. It reflects ...
Getting ready for egg-citing time today
Miniature chocolates mixed with taffy collect in piles on table tops, waiting to be stuffed into eggs.
To those who are 20: Life gets better, a lot better
There's only one gift I want as I turn 57. That's being able to make a 20-year-old understand life does get better. A lot better. It can be frustrating finding a job and then struggling to make ends meet. At the same time you worry about what others think of you and are terrorized that you will never find love or lose the love that you have. Your heart and very soul at times seem ...
Get ready for the Wii bowling urinal challenge
Enough is enough. Do we have to be exposed to the onslaught of high tech entertainment literally everywhere we go? It was bad enough when sports bars started posting copies of the San Francisco Sporting Green at eye-level above urinals. It was equally insane when Disneyland starting putting TV screens in restrooms. Now the Allentown minor league affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies has taken bathroom entertainment to an even lower level with a urinal gaming ...
Thigh busting challenge: Conquering ‘The Wall’
You got this. You got this. ... C'mon, man, you got this.
Manteca-Lathrop’s next economic boom is coming down the tracks
They've been working on the railroad – and for good reason. America is in the midst of a railroad boom. It has everything to do with the economic recovery, rising overseas production costs, the shale oil boom, efficiencies in fuel and goods movements, and reducing carbon footprints. Railroads this year alone are expected to pour $14 billion into infrastructure to make train movements more efficient from coast to coast. Freight demand is projected to double ...
Caswell & outsourcing state parks
At the southern terminus of Austin Road is one of 280 gems known as California State Parks. Caswell Memorial State Park is home to unique valley riparian woodlands. Such clustering of woodlands once covered immense swaths of the valley floor alongside rivers. Today less than 2 percent of riparian oaks that existed when unsuccessful gold seekers turned to farming still stand. The 258 acres in the state park are home to perhaps a hundred or ...
In a true sense we are all Stocktonians
Stockton admittedly has its challenges. It is second only to Oakland among California cities in terms of crime. It is the third most illiterate city among those in the United States with 250,000 residents or more based on just 17 percent of the adult population having a college degree. The FBI ranks it No. 7 nationally for vehicle theft per capita. And on Monday Stockton had the dubious honor of being the largest United States ...
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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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