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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 ...
Recipe for Portuguese donuts courtesy of Dorothy Indelicato
Driving the kids to school when they were attending Nile Garden Elementary School, I used to make a pit stop at the donut shop in the small neighborhood shopping center on Union Road at West Yosemite Avenue. The kids opted for the chocolate-topped bars or the round ones. I usually had a half-dozen of the small rounded bite sizes with a small cup of decaf coffee.
PG&E’s style of doing business: Break the rules & then apologize
PG&E's brass will do whatever it takes to protect their multi-million dollar compensation packages whether it is breaking laws, distorting the truth, or leading an effort to amend the California Constitution to shore up their monopoly.
PG&E admits to misleading folks over extent of smart meter woes
PG&E has finally conceded that the smart meters they are installing aren't as infallible as they have been contending.
Mayoral hopefuls should heed advice of late Tip O’Neill
The lead story in Sunday's Manteca Bulletin was a bit of a surprise for Samuel Anderson. It was about the South San Joaquin Republicans candidates' forum tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Chez Shari restaurant on the second floor of the Manteca Golf Course at 305 North Union Road. It was a surprise because Anderson - who is a Republican - has been a declared candidate for mayor for as long as Mayor Willie Weatherford and ...
Here’s a shocker: CPUC says PG&E isn’t playing by the rules in Marin
PG&E's corporate brass are once again doing what they do best which is not playing by the rules.
Explosive issue polarizes Lathrop city officials and some residents
Safe and Sane Fireworks is becoming an explosive issue in Lathrop that is polarizing some residents and a member of the City Council, not to mention a retired fire chief.
Arizona weeding out teachers that can’t speak English correctly
Three cheers for Arizona. No, it Is not for the infamous illegal immigration law that gives local police in Arizona the responsibility to verify immigration status if there is a "reasonable suspicion" that the person they have stopped for an infraction is in this country illegally. Instead it is for the Arizona Department of Education for grasping the meaning of a passage in the federal No Child Left Behind Act and actually enforcing the provision. ...
What?! Me an athlete? That’s complete insanity
I had a good laugh when I read the press release from the Manteca Convention & Visitors Bureau about the torch run opening the 2010 Manteca Senior Games next Saturday.
Manteca council & city employees read their lips
The next time you see Kirk Dall, Eric Woh le, Rick Arucan, Fred Milner, Steve Keegan, Charlotte Stafford, JoAnne Jamerson, Bruce Bentz, Christina Crutchfield, Maryann Morrison and Kevin Wentworth among others, you might want to tell them thank you.
Sacramento actors turning California into ‘B’ grade state
Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't the only actor in Sacramento. There are actually 120 of them "acting" as leaders of California in both houses of the legislature. And judging by what is about to come down in San Joaquin County - as well as the 57 other counties - the time has come to end reruns this November and look for virtually anyone else. Based on the mess they've managed to get California in, it would be ...
Sacramento comes up with another way to make matters worse
There is little doubt that State Sen. Dean Florez, D-Shafter, means well. He is the politician that authored a bill now making its way through the California Legislature to establish student fee caps starting in 2010-11 and cap increases at 5 percent in future years at the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges. The proposed law would also assure students that their fees would not rise during their learning career. The ...
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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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