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Why Manteca’s golf course is doing better
Recent articles in the Modesto Bee concerning their municipal golf courses and their continued financial troubles are almost a mirror image of the City of Stockton and their municipal golf courses. They continue to require General Fund money to keep them operational. And we are not talking about a small sum. Modesto reports their golf courses will require some $400,000 to $500,000 of General Fund dollars to keep them open this next fiscal year. Now where Stockton is attempting to lease their golf courses to private management, Modesto is actually considering closing two of their courses. The simple ...
Will Manteca tear out Wilson Park for a parking lot?
Wilson Park tucked behind the Post Office where Manteca and Sycamore avenues converge before meeting Center Street isn't the city's smallest park. That honor goes to appropriately named Mini Park that was created beneath a PG&E power tower on the southeast corner of Elm Avenue and North Street just three blocks away.
Youthful gang members effectively express themselves with their clothes
If there was something the schools could do to improve your child's safety and it wasn't being done, most parents would probably be hopping mad.
Manteca council: Are their tastes bold or reserved?
Modern or traditional is the question.
A more effective, less expensive Delta plan
It appears that there may be people on Gov. Jerry Brown's staff who are keeping him from becoming aware of the consequences of pursuing the plan formerly endorsed by the Schwarzenegger administration.
Handling conflict
It's difficult to stay calm when a co-worker is peering over your shoulder trying to make sure you complete your assignment accurately, or when a well-meaning family members is watching over your plate to make sure you don't stray from your diet.
What about the right to maintain control in prison?
Ever been inside a state prison?
Lockyer to SJ Valley: Drop dead
State Treasurer Bill Lockyer and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg apparently are now advocating the equivalent of political civil war in California.
The fantasy that high-tech jobs are Manteca’s future
Manteca, at one-time, made the goal of creating a Hacienda Business Park type development envisioned as Tara Business Park a top priority along McKinley Avenue south of the 120 Bypass.
Get ready for stealth tax on your soda
They don't get it, do they?
The lack of health club etiquette
I try to make it to the gym every morning, and if I had exercise equipment, sauna, steam room and a swimming pool at my house, I wouldn't need to. But since I don't, I have to go someplace where other people are there to do the same thing I am.
ICE is right to go after employers on illegal workers
There is a line in the illegal immigration debate that goes something like this: Illegal workers pay tons of taxes that help subsidize the rest of us because they can't benefit from them such as Social Security tax.
Dognapping: Shades of Cruella DeVille
There was a noon-time drama that developed from a dog knapping Friday at lunchtime in a downtown Manteca parking lot that attracted a half dozen volunteers who turned out looking for the culprit and the missing six-month-old Morkie – a Maltese and Yorkie mix.
Treasure Island: San Francisco’s answer to Atlantis
San Francisco - some pessimists contend - is a city waiting to die.
It’s time for the bell to toll for class-action lawyers
I've got nothing against Taco Bell. It is what it is.
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Dying art of polite conversation
He seemed a nice enough of a young man.
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