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Manteca Library: Still standing & filling a big need
Back in 1994 during a terse exchange over the need for a new Manteca Library, one opponent stood up in the council chambers and declared it was a moot point since public libraries would be on the way out by the year 2000.
Get ready for a 10% tax on tanning beds
Let me tell you how it will be; There's one for you, nineteen for me. 'Cause I'm the taxman, Yeah, I'm the taxman. Should five per cent appear too small, Be thankful I don't take it all. 'Cause I'm the taxman, Yeah, I'm the taxman. (if you drive a car, car;) - I'll tax the street; (if you try to sit, sit;) - I'll tax your seat; (if you get too cold, cold;) - I'll ...
PG&E using eminent domain to compete against private firms
Eminent domain, we are told by PG&E, is an evil thing but only if it is used against them.
The return of the grow & kill season
The rains are less frequent. The mercury is inching up toward 70 degrees. And the gopher mounds are popping up more often than Meg Whitman for governor TV commercials.
Manteca should limit new homes to 500 a year
It is time to revisit the 3.9 percent growth cap. The City Council decision last week to drop the bonus bucks for five years makes it clear that Manteca is wrong to tie its economic fate to the housing market. The bonus bucks are essentially a surcharge of $8,000 to $17,000 per new home for sewer allocation certainty that has saved Manteca from financial disaster by covering $12 million in general fund shortfalls since 2002 ...
Burglars barely out of puberty a growing concern
Michael Quilici is in the process of bringing his neighbors together to form a Neighborhood Watch group.
A dangerous game of RDA keep away in Manteca
Redevelopment agencies can indeed be great tools to stimulate economic growth and fight blight.
The X-factor: X equals Y? In your dreams
It is always entertaining listening to teen-age guys talk as if they've got the stronger sex - not the weaker sex as they believe - figured out.
Get ready for surcharge on your homeowners insurance policy
If you live in Manteca, you pay property taxes to support the Manteca Fire Department. That is true whether you own or rent since the landlord passes the costs onto the tenants. You also have fire insurance. The California Legislature today is starting work on a budget plan that includes taking advantage of the fact you carry fire insurance so they can pay for California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection expenses. They are planning ...
Will we be able to slide like a Man-tee-kan once again?
Remember what it was like to "Walk Like a Man-tee-kan"? Or more precisely, what it was like to slide like a Man-tee-kan down the V-Maxx speed slide at what was once dubbed "the world famous" Manteca Waterslides. World famous it was. Almost anyone who lived in Manteca during the 30 years the Brown family's venture was making a big splash has a story to tell of running into people while traveling – whether in Los ...
A signal that times are changing at Manteca City Hall
Roundabouts aren't new inventions. Yet they were rarely given much consideration to solve Manteca's traffic concerns involving movement, congestion and safety until a few years ago. And even then it was a lukewarm embracement at best and it only applied to new developments on the rare occasions it was applied. Traffic signals have long been the default choice in Manteca to solve issues at intersections with high cross traffic counts. No one ever questioned whether ...
Affordable housing: Manteca needs to think like Mr. Potter
Affordable housing is all the rage. Politicians want it. Builders want it. Home buyers want it.
Finally, the city may address Powers speeding
One of the few vehicles that travel South Powers Avenue between Marin Street and Yosemite Avenue at the posted 25 mph speed limit are Manteca fire engines even when they are responding to an emergency with red lights and sirens.
America’s ‘new’ neighborhoods weaken sense of community
Americans no longer have the concept of shame nor community responsibility. Manteca Police Saturday night were conducting a driving under the influence and driver's license checkpoint when one a young man in an Acura tried to avoid it. An alert officer noticed something amiss that would allow the driver to be pulled over. The driver – apparently without a license either because it was suspended or he simply didn't bother to get one – argued ...
Donner Party inspires latest Sacramento budget moves
Sacramento is no longer practicing voodoo budgeting. They are now entering the realm of cannibalization budgeting and are treating local government as if they are mere cattle for the slaughter. Instead of trying to take money from cities, running it through the schools without leaving a penny for use in the classroom, and then taking it back to Sacramento to cover the state deficit the California Legislature has adopted the Donner Party model of survival. ...
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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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