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Real heroes are more like Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers was the good guy who wore the white hat. A gentleman at all times, the singing cowboy dispatched bad guys in 87 westerns by shooting the gun out of their hands. Rogers always fought fair and never killed a man. The power structure in Hollywood put guys like Rogers out to pasture years ago. They're convinced the American public wants sex, gore, and killings. Producers contend they're just being realistic. Fat chance. There ...
The importance of career days
About a month ago, I had the pleasure of serving as one of the Career Day guest speakers at French Camp School.
Today’s election is a lose-lose proposition
I'm supposed to be angry as I go to the polls today. That's what the talking heads say about the mood of California voters. Anger, though, isn't something that is crossing my mind today nor is disgust for that matter. It's more a state of sadness. I truly love California as I'm sure most of those who live here do. We all love it for a variety of reasons. Some of them are geographic-based from ...
Take a swing at helping Jowell Griggs
For several years, Jowell Griggs helped organize a local NCAA March Madness tournament pool among friends.
Opportunity may exist for new library at 555 Industrial
There is a solution to Manteca's Library needs and it might be staring city leaders in the face.
The 10-second rule, swine flu & disregard for others’ health
Some people abide by the 10-second rule. Personally, mine is more like 30 seconds. I guess it comes from being out in the middle of nowhere on long bicycle rides and having to eat only what I bring with me. I have no problem with picking most food I drop up off the floor – or from the ground – and eating it. I don't exactly have a phobia about dirt and germs. Having said ...
Friendships mean more than actual games
For the first time in quite a while, I'm not running around to take my son, Josh, to baseball.
The wide track feeling is about to become history
Pontiac was the General Motors car line growing up. Your parents drove a Chevrolet. The nice elderly couple down the street drove a Buick. Middle-age folks who were moving up were behind the wheel of an Oldsmobile. And those who were well-to-do – relatively speaking – owned Cadillacs. It was the Pontiac line, though, that beckoned the young and young at heart. It was pure muscle under the hood even in the sedans. They even ...
Manteca can save green & be green by going purple
It's an opportunity of a lifetime. Manteca has the backbone of a solution in place that could help keep down future municipal costs to maintain parks and civic landscaping as well as large expanses of school grass plus reduce consumption of precious drinking water.
Uncle Sam should take over Altamont tracks
It is ironic that the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission is going back to Washington, D.C., to lobby the federal government to secure $20 million toward $150 million in order to buy the Union Pacific tracks and right-of-way over the Altamont Pass.
It’s not AIG but partying on taxpayers’ dime just doesn’t seem right
It wasn't a posh party by any means and certainly not by AIG standards. It was a catered dinner at the MRPS Hall costing around $9,000.
Air quality cops: Cows both dead & alive are killing us in the SJ Valley
Burger King is killing you. It used to be that you'd have to at least buy a charbroiled burger and consume it before you had to start worrying about your health. In the good old days all you had to fret about was trans fats and whether they cooked the meat enough to stay healthy. Now the San Joaquin Valley Air Quality Control District is saying second-hand charbroiling can kill you. The people who made ...
Lathrop leaders eat shrimp while Manteca taxpayers subsidize their animal services
Why should stray or unwanted dogs in Manteca have a shorter lifespan because elected-officials in Lathrop like to chow down on taxpayer financed shrimp cocktail before the start of their council meetings?
Coach Ben Parks & the ‘Soul Vikes’
Coach Ben Parks was a guest at last Saturday's Manteca Sports Heroes Hall of Distinction event held in the Big League Dream sports complex.
Manteca council has opportunity to improve safety
Are you a daredevil? Do near misses excite you? Is it your firm belief the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to make left turns at will across a busy commercial block with 15 driveways to a number of high traffic attractions? In that case, you want to make sure the pending repaving of East Yosemite Avenue between Commerce Drive and Cottage Avenue goes forward in the coming year without the City Council directing staff to ...
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‘Cool’ car colors, gas powered lawn mowers & air quality
Do you drive a black car?
Privacy matters & upset Americans
When I first started teaching criminal law (decades ago), I spent weeks on the Fourth Amendment and the "zone of privacy." The big case was Katz v. United States, decided in 1967. The FBI suspected that Charles Katz was using a payphone in a phone booth (those enclosed spaces we used to rely on before cellphones) to transmit gambling information to folks in other states (a federal offense). So they attached a listening device to ...
Greetings from the IRS: Infernal Retribution Service
Greetings.
Obama’s media co-conspirators
How does President Barack Obama, a man of such keen intelligence, with such promise to "change" America, find himself in so much serious trouble?
This Bud’s for you: Less beer, more can
Anyone who says that America has lost its innovative edge in technology and manufacturing hasn't chugged a can of Bud recently. The buzz is back, baby!
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