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Remember Owens Valley: Fake Delta concern over smelt
Amazing, isn't it? Big agricultural interests along with development interests that want to fuel even more LA-San Diego growth with imported water push for the $14 billion Twin Tunnels or Peripheral Canal 2.0. Then within months the Delta Smelt death count at the Tracy pumps skyrocketed, prompting a sharp curtailment this week in water deliveries to the Southland and big corporate farms in ...
So how does mandatory gun insurance reduce gun violence?
Mandatory gun liability insurance for gun owners sounds reasonable, doesn't it?
Hey, dude! That’s not my cup of tea
"Dude! It's cold! Shorts?"
Manteca benefits from Amazon locating in Tracy
Tracy landed an Amazon fulfillment center and an accompanying 1,000 jobs.
See you later, alligator!
EDITOR'S NOTE: Ripon's Pinky Hawes died unexpectedly Friday following complications from an elective surgery in the Bay Area. Hawes was widely known in the Ripon community for her contributions to children, to education, to her church, to her family and to sports activities. Funeral services are tentatively set for Wednesday at Deegan Funeral Home in Ripon. The following is a column about her life that appeared in The Bulletin some six years ago shortly ...
Forget algebra, what about a life math class?
Not making algebra a mandatory eighth grade subject in California schools has all the usual suspects in a tizzy.
Texas governor is California dreaming just like a lot of folks
Everything is bigger in Texas. Including the egos of their politicians. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is heading to California. His objective is to steal jobs. A Rhode Island-sized radio campaign – $24,000 worth of paid spots – preceded his pilgrimage to the cutting-edge land known as California. Perry's spiel is that he's heading here because it's hard to do ...
Weighty debate: Is being heavy a sure sign of an early demise?
Can we stop being fixated with Gov. Chris Christie's weight?
Bay Area more restrictive than Manteca in public forum free speech
Freedom of speech is alive and well in Manteca. The same goes for many San Joaquin Valley communities.
Keep Manson disciple behind bars for his part in two murders
If I were governor, hell would have to freeze over and Twinkies would have to be certified as organic health food before Bruce Davis would walk out of prison.
Judge blocks IRS from helping H&R Block squish the competition
There is nothing more dreadful than the IRS in terms of confusing heavy-handedness. But the IRS teaming up with big corporations takes bullying to a new level. Thanks to the Institute of Justice and District of Columbia federal judge James Boasberg, Americans have been spared a merger between the tax world equivalent of Satan and his disciples. The IRS – at the prodding of H&R Block and Intuit – tried to make it illegal for ...
A penny for your thoughts costs 2.41 cents
The odds are you are swimming in pennies. You probably have hundreds scattered around your house, car and office desk. There was a time when pennies could actually buy things such as penny candy. Those days are long gone. Now it is rare for anyone to pick up a penny they see on the sidewalk. And to make it worse, it now costs 2.41 cents to make each of the 6 billion pennies minted each ...
Strangers lend a helping hand for strangers
A scruffy-looking man and woman were asking for help with a cardboard sign Saturday afternoon at Yosemite and Commerce avenues.
Clambake part of 30-year Super Bowl party tradition
There are Super Bowl parties. Chicken wings and seven-layer dip and solo cups and friends – the perfect combination for a football-themed soiree. And then there is the clambake that Mike and Teri Farrell have been perfecting for the last three decades. Sure it has all of the fixings that you'd expect to find a normal Super Bowl Party – chicken wings and seven-layer dip and…you get the idea. But it also has history on ...
Cursive writing going the way of the slide rule?
Here's a shocker. The Founding Fathers did not keyboard the Declaration of Independence. And because of that, a growing number of young people can't read the actual document. They're not illiterate. They just can't read cursive script handwriting. More and more public schools are abandoning handwriting. They believe it is an archaic form of communication. ...
Articles by Section - Local Columns
Taxes you pay go to PG&E & not Headstart
Pundits - and editorial cartoonists - are having a field day over Congress' decision to restore funding for air traffic controllers while letting programs such as Headstart for low-income kids and Meals on Wheels for shut-in senior citizens take federal budget hits.
The Pope and Godless capitalism
"This is called slave labor," said Pope Francis.
Cinco de Mayo is as American as you can get
People need to stop having heart palpations over Cinco de Mayo celebrations.
Meeting your Ripon neighbors at jury duty, plus an unexpected pleasure over lunch
Meeting a couple of Ripon folks, and one from Linden and another from Tracy was an unexpected pleasure in my brief two days of jury duty this week – especially when four of us just happened to go out to lunch together on Thursday.
Kentucky Derby’s horse tie to French Camp
FRENCH CAMP – It's a funny thing, this horse racing business.
Guns: Being judged by 12 instead of being carried by 6
She's a single mom in her early 30s. She lives in an old farmhouse in an almond orchard five miles east of Manteca. The closest neighbor is a quarter mile of a way but the trees make it impossible to see their home.
Want a safe environment for vacation? Then stay out of Yosemite
Yosemite National Park is not Disneyland.
Perhaps Manteca should work with Wal-Mart to create a homeless park
The aging RV was parked under a stately tree providing relief from the 90-degree midday heat.
Count your blessings that disco didn’t survive the ‘70s
Bell bottom pants. Flare-leg pants. Men's rayon tie scarves. Polyester suits.
California makes sure car buyers pay the price twice in taxes
Call it farmer smarts
Beware of sugary drink tax: It might end up killing you
How many calories are in 16 ounces of orange juice? Try 220 calories.
Adam: Big heart & even bigger inspiration
Anthony Alcaraz sat forward in his seat, staring quizzically at the track, convinced someone had made a mistake.
LAFCo’s Subliminal message: SJ County is not business friendly
Is San Joaquin County business friendly?
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