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Old-fashioned ‘barn raising’ for landscaping
East Highway 120 through Manteca – the stretch from the Highway 99 interchange to Austin Road – has defined Manteca in the minds of millions of travelers. It isn't a pretty picture they painted for themselves. Typical was the comic strip Farley that once was a staple in the San Francisco Chronicle that portrayed Manteca as nothing but a series of mobile home parks, and trailer sales firms accented by asphalt and weeds. You could ...
‘Bailout Boogie’ mentality & health care
Congress – which has never been big on the details – is ramming full-speed ahead with national health care.
Go ahead, machine gun down Bambi
Ryan had $10 to spend at street fair a few years back. Our grandson, who was 8 at the time, was a typical boy for his age. He wanted everything. But what he finally decided to spend every last dime on was two packaged sets of toy guns - one showcased law enforcement weapons and tools and the other was a straight-forward "rifle" that shoots the plastic projectiles with suction cups on the end. When ...
City should worry about existing residents
Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The July 23 article, "Chucking 4-lane plan?" discussed reconfiguring Woodward Avenue near Airport Way, either as four lanes of traffic with a center turn lane, or just widening the current two lane road. At its last meeting, the Manteca City Council certified the Environmental Impact Report for Machado Estates, a 500-home proposed development on the southwest corner of Airport Way and Woodward Avenue. The EIR focused on the effects of a four ...
Playing baseball by listening
They came from different parts of the world, nearly 250 athletes from 14 teams making their way to San Joaquin County this week to play in the 2009 National Beep Baseball Association World Series.
Califoreclosure: The Enron of state governments
It's official. California is now the Enron of state governments. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a budget Tuesday that has so many accounting tricks in it that it would make Houdini's head spin and Bernie Madoff jealous. Here are just a few of the gems that Arnold and his 120 co-conspirators came up with to assure that California will be crippled for years to come: •The June 30, 2010 pay date for state workers was shifted ...
Golf course: How does Manteca do it?
ALAN THOMAS Manteca Columnist A question I am often asked by out-of-town golfers when visiting our golf course is, "How does Manteca do it?" How do we have the consistently best conditioned public golf course around, the best clubhouse facilities, and more tournaments and events than any public golf course in Northern California, yet also have some of the most reasonable golf fee's anywhere? Although this seems to be a mystery to out-of-town golfers ...
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. ...
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