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American health care scores ‘win’ over swine flu
Aren't you glad you're alive today? Despite all the gloom and doom about illness and environmental health plus the implied battle cry of the health care nationalization drive that people are dying because they can't afford care, there is a lot of good news out there in the medial and health world. Remember the swine flu pandemic that was supposed to wipe out scores of people? It's over. At least that's the official word of ...
A ‘dumb’ assertion about public power from Victor Mow
Victor Mow - who did little to improve the financial integrity of San Joaquin County while serving on the Board of Supervisors - penned an opinion piece about South San Joaquin Irrigation District essentially being reckless with public money.
Melmac: Dishware for the Nuclear Age
If you know about Melmac and Alf - and what they have in common - then you were alive during the 1950s or thereafter and have an unusual sense of humor as far as the TV comedy shows you like.
Manteca still has to move forward morning of Nov. 3
It is easy to get caught up in the notion that the upcoming Manteca municipal election on Nov. 2 is about the candidates.
Are some more equal in Manteca than others?
Eight years ago this Sunday a new municipal law went into effect to try to stem aggressive panhandlers.
The cultural war may cost Ripon teacher her job
Limited-English-proficient students have the same right to a quality education as all California students. For these students to have access to quality education, their special needs must be met by teachers who have essential skills and knowledge related to English language development, specially designed content instruction delivered in English, and content instruction delivered in the students' primary languages. - California Education Code
Manteca needs BLD-style solution for library needs
It is time to turn the page, literally, on how we approach library services. And the current budget crisis - which is actually a structural problem with what we demand of government and how we fund it - may provide the opportune time to think out of the box. First and foremost, libraries are essential. But save for new technology and bigger and more modern buildings we haven't modified or expanded their basic functions since ...
PG&E continues deception on Proposition 16
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The deception continues. Last week, for example, the Proposition 16 campaign sent out mailers. "At a time of tight budgets and layoffs of police and firefighters," it read, "voters should have the right to vote on anything that affects our pocketbook." But public-power agencies like SMUD have nothing to do with a city's general funds, which finance services such as police and firefighters. The notion that taxes are being used to provide ...
I’ve never been accused of being Mr. Clean
I am somewhere on the spectrum between a neat freak and a slob. That suits me just fine. My house gets a semi-thorough dusting about every two months whether it needs it or not. I have a tendency to pile things on the kitchen table and on my roll top desk as well as on one of my four bookcases. The bed gets made whenever I feel like it – which is rare – while ...
Overwhelming selfless sacrifice by our soldiers
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:13
THEIR SACRIFICES, OUR FREEDOMS
Bob Gutierrez almost didn't come back from Vietnam. But there was a time in his life when he probably wished he hadn't. Prior to being drafted to serve in the war where America lost 54,000 soldiers, Gutierrez had a promising future as a singer. It was good enough to have offers of a recording contract and to secure an appearance on the Michael Douglas Show. On a fateful day in Vietnam, an incoming rocket could ...
Memorial Day & this great gift called ‘America’
It's Memorial Day. To most of us, it signals the start of summer or simply made it possible to have a three-day weekend to enjoy family, shopping or travel.
One man’s legacy to fight evil by giving kids a chance
Antone Raymus played a mean game of pinochle. He also loved to tell stories especially those that had a point. And perhaps a few of his stories have had as much impact on as many people as one he told of his days attending class at the old Summer Home School. Antone was a young son of Portuguese immigrants struggling in school. It wasn't just because he had to work on the farm like most ...
California & not GOP or Demos should come first
My first vote cast in a Republican governor's primary race was in June of 1974. I was 18. Meg Whitman didn't vote that year. She had a good excuse. She was two months shy of turning 18. Besides, she was a resident of Cold Springs Harbor in New York at the time.
Keeping cost of government down is our responsibility
Why is government so out of whack? The answer is simple. We want it both ways. We rail at government for being too costly and then we turn around and slam it when they don't do functions that we believe somehow is their ultimate responsibility and not ours. Several years ago the City of Manteca paved the alleys in Powers Tract where I happened to have bought my house a few months beforehand. Part of ...
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Larry Page and his goog- goog- googley eyes
Get ready for the invasion of the Barneys.
‘TV will be a lot less gay’
The annual network list of canceled primetime shows cannot be pleasing to the progressives who measure shows based on their cultural and political usefulness. "TV Will Be a Lot Less Gay Next Year," the commissars complained at Slate.com. They counted 11 canceled shows that featured regular gay characters.
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