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Will Manteca really back off on sign regulations?
Manteca's municipal leaders and bureaucrats stepped up to the plate when it became clear the economic crisis was going to inundate local government if something wasn't done quickly.
Perhaps Brown doesn’t really trust voters
Are you getting any warm and fuzzy feelings about supporting Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to extend $12 billion a year in "temporary" tax increases on personal income tax, sales tax, and vehicle license fees?
Is city saying Bass Pro matters while Weber’s BBQ doesn’t?
Carissa Patton by all accounts is a good cook.
Manteca Police, copper wiring thieves & 2,300 marijuana plants
It isn't surprising that there are people ripping into Manteca Police for their superb job of taking out a multi-million pot growing operation in the heart of the Manteca Industrial Park.
We must never apologize for dropping the bomb on Japan
Japan's narrative of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki for years has painted the Japanese as victims.
Atherton Drive, not McKinley is better alternative
Since 1849 when valley paths expanded into well-worn dirt roads heading toward the mines, strategically placed thoroughfares have been growth-inducing in California where mobility and lifestyle are interchangeable concepts.
Fly swatters for $6.99? Are they crazy or what?
All I wanted was a simple fly swatter.
Deville without Cruella is like Fred Astaire without Ginger Rogers
There's an empty spot in my heart today.
The case to make McKinley extension Manteca’s DMZ for growth
It's time that Manteca took its scrutiny of ways to deliver government services more efficiently and for less money to the next level.
No truck route for McKinley is sound planning
McKinley Avenue should not under any circumstances be designated as a truck route.
Discriminating against renters simply based on their youth
He's a young man. He works an honest day doing construction work. And he's about as clean-cut as you can get - no sagging pants, fairly well-groomed, polite, and hardworking.
Defining misery by standards that really count
The Central Valley - according to the insightful people at Forbes who pride themselves on catching business trends but somehow were asleep at the wheel when the Wall Street Turks used sleight of hand and unadulterated greed to crash the economy - is hell on earth.
Perhaps they thought levee was just a big gopher mound
It was the defining moment of the January 1997 floods.
CPUC cozies up even closer to for-profit utilities
The Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco was the setting for a dinner that brought for-profit California utility company fat cats and the upper crust of bureaucrats together.
Fire sprinklers in homes & former Fire Chief Rule
Charlie Rule over 20 years ago pushed to get his bosses on the Manteca City Council to require new home builders to install fire sprinklers in all new single family residential construction.
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Grisham was part of Manteca’s heart & soul
Martha Grisham was truly a big part of Manteca's heart and soul through much of her 91 years before she passed away on Christmas Eve.
‘Oh, the pain, the pain, the pain of it all’
Pain is relative. In my case it's a first cousin.
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