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Manteca needs to abandon downtown

It's time to think out of the box that has been downtown Manteca.

February 15, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


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 ...

February 14, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


So how does mandatory gun insurance reduce gun violence?

Mandatory gun liability insurance for gun owners sounds reasonable, doesn't it?

February 13, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


Hey, dude! That’s not my cup of tea

"Dude! It's cold! Shorts?"

February 12, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


Manteca benefits from Amazon locating in Tracy

Tracy landed an Amazon fulfillment center and an accompanying 1,000 jobs.

February 11, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


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 ...

February 10, 2013 | Glenn Kahl | Local Columns


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.

February 10, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


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 ...

February 08, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


Weighty debate: Is being heavy a sure sign of an early demise?

Can we stop being fixated with Gov. Chris Christie's weight?

February 07, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


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.

February 06, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


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.

February 05, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


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 ...

February 05, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


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 ...

February 04, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


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.

February 04, 2013 | Glenn Kahl | Local Columns


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 ...

February 02, 2013 | Jason Campbell | Local Columns


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Twin Tunnels: $24B won’t assure adequate water supplies for 25 million people

Let the distortions begin.

May 31, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


A pawn, a $350,000 study & taking $12M out of people’s pockets

One man's due diligence is costing more than 40,000 households, business, and farmers $12 million a year.

May 30, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


A virtually empty garage may be un-American by today’s standards

I'm a prime candidate for the Homeland Security watch list.

May 29, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


Apple isn’t rotten but the American taxing system is

Why does Uncle Sam insist on subsidizing rich people?

May 27, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


Twin Tunnels: Get ready for Owens Valley 2.0

Want to see the future of the Northern San Joaquin Valley?

May 25, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


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.

May 24, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | Local Columns


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