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Manteca safety: Here’s 5,000 or so pennies a year for your thoughts
Pennies are rather worthless things when they standalone. They collect like dust bunnies in cars, desks, and jars. Many times we don't even take pennies when getting change for a purchase. Instead we nonchalantly toss them into a container on the counter for someone else to use to complete a transaction. Many of us don't believe it is worth the bother to wrap them in 50 cent rolls and take them to the bank. So ...
Teens show how indomitable spirit conquers all
Siblings Weley and Wendy Lin did not speak a word of English when they started school in first grade. Mandarin was the only language they knew. Their parents did not understand English either, so the young girls didn't have the luxury of receiving any help at home with their homework.
Call it the ‘close- a-school-&-make- Ripon-Unified- even-better’ plan
It's not every day parents – even if they are educators – suggest to a school board they should close a school especially when all are performing more than decently on state test scores.
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.
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Twin Tunnels: $24B won’t assure adequate water supplies for 25 million people
Let the distortions begin.
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.
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.
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