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BLD can make a big save for Manteca parks
Big League Dreams holds part of the answer to Manteca's current budget woes. And that partial answer could cover the salary and benefits for at least five parks maintenance workers. It involves the $310,000 payment that Big League Dreams is making to the city each year. A previous council committed the city to repaying the park fees portion of what went into the project back to that fund so it could underwrite other recreational improvements ...
Time for state to debate pot legalization
Call it reefer madness. Oakland voters on Tuesday created a business-tax category for the selling of pot from store front operations. The pot clubs that under California law are licensed to sell pot for medicinal purposes were paying $1.20 per $1,000 of gross receipts. Since passage of Measure F, that tax rate will jump to $18 per $1,000 of sales. Backers of legalizing marijuana applauded the move as it adds to the effort to legalize ...
Aunt RuthAnn touched many lives
When my husband and I got married, an annual tradition began. At least, for me. Every year without fail, I received a birthday greeting card in the mail from Tracy. It was always signed, "Aunt Ruthie."
Manteca sets an example for Californians to ‘go solar’
As a progressive, growing city, Manteca is leading the way in becoming a destination for energy efficient living. Despite the current economic climate and the rise in foreclosures across the region, forward-thinking home builders, businesses and residents are benefiting from the abundance of sunshine in Manteca to make clean renewable energy.
We’re killing ourselves via government dependency
How did we get to the point where the government – through debt and taxes – essentially controls our day-to-day economic well being?
True lies: The $26B budget deal from hell
Arnold Schwarzenegger and the so-called Big Five should be ashamed of themselves for coming up with the biggest Ponzi scheme the world has ever known.
‘Uncle Walter’ visited UOP
He was once dubbed "the most trusted public figure in America." He was a familiar face to many households not only in the United States but all over the world. His face was part of the dinner scene in countless families, including mine – at least in the later years of his stint as CBS anchorman – as he delivered the evening news. And to many countless others, he was simply "Uncle Walter." He officially ...
The real right stuff
"Dude, how is it going?" I looked around to see who the store manager – a 30ish looking guy with the prerequisite earrings at Pac Sun in the Galleria in Roseville – was addressing. "Dude," he continued, "what are you looking for?" It dawned on me that he was looking right at me. "I'm with them," I said slightly embarrassed as I gestured toward my granddaughter Ashley and boyfriend Sawyer who were shopping for clothes. ...
The real right stuff
It's too bad Walter Cronkite didn't live to see the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing.
List of people & things to blame never ends for a true victim
I finally get it. If you're a victim 100 percent of the time and can blame everyone else for your problems then you can absolve yourself of any responsibility for your lot in life. Better yet, it is always somebody else that is making your life miserable and difficult. You have nothing to do with it. Let's see if I understand how this whole victim thing works. Somewhere in my gene pool, there is bad ...
Federal workers dodge furloughs & pain of others
General Motors is shedding workers. California is forcing state employees to take unpaid furloughs for the equivalent of 15 percent pay cuts. Small employers on Main Street are closing. Teachers are losing their jobs. Everywhere you look in the private and public sectors the pain is being spread with one high-profile exception – the federal government.
Fire district bests sheriff’s office in watermelon eating
LATHROP - The reaction from Interim Fire Chief Fred Manding of the Lathrop-Manteca Fire Protection District was swift.
Billboards: Manteca park trees
There are city owned "trees" along the Moffat Boulevard leg of the Tidewater Bikeway.
Give Manteca USD classified workers an ‘A’ for smart contract move
Manteca Unified School District's classified employees are one savvy group. When they reopened their contract earlier this year they agreed to take a 5 percent pay cut. In exchange they district agreed to no more job cuts for two years. This all happened before the real bottom started falling out of the state's budget and a $24 billion deficit developed that made the budget mess of last year seem like child's play. Now with Armageddon ...
Dad, a dump truck & hitting the cemeteries
The summer of my seventh year is the year I got to know my father and the year I lost him. The year before dad sold his share in Wyatt's Hardware – the Roseville store – leaving his brother Pershing to carry on with the family business that ended up spanning 80 years by keeping the Lincoln store open. We moved back to Lincoln where dad opted to take a job as superintendent of the ...
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