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Ripon’s road to nowhere going there fast It is Ripon’s Frontage Road to nowhere. It runs under the Wilma Avenue overpass and ends abruptly at the Ripon Christian High campus. |
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A stomachache for our sponsor L. BRENT BOZELL III Founder and President of the Media Research Center In the earliest days of television, shows were often supported entirely by one sponsor. There was the “Texaco Star Theater” with Milton Berle. Remember “General Electric Theater” with Ronald Reagan? The corporate patron was held responsible for the content within the program. More to the point, the corporate patron wanted the association with the show it was sponsoring. Perhaps the best branding of ... |
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Impressed with Brock Elliott Day ceremony Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Friday morning I had the honor to attend my first “Brock Elliott Day” at Brock Elliott Elementary School. As I entered the quad where the ceremony was to take place, I was moved by what I saw. Students, faculty, parents, and veterans were all there, united to commemorate those who gave their lives in Vietnam. From the Manteca High Junior ROTC presenting the colors to begin the ceremony and the kindergarten ... |
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Civil meeting over McKinley Expressway plans Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The McKinley Expressway workshop Thursday night at the library was attended by many dozens of homeowners and landowners who are faced with the prospect of having a 106-foot-wide ribbon of asphalt benefit, brush, bisect, or bury their homes and farms. These property owners reside south of Manteca’s city limits but still within Manteca’s General Plan “sphere of influence.” This planning sphere is where city officials determine where arterial roads are routed and ... |
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Deer feces and learning to look at life differently We had just turned off Highway 395 outside of Lee Vining and onto Highway 120 heading west toward lofty Tioga Pass at 9,934 feet. |
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Manteca High menu a big draw for students who want value for $1.75 Sometimes being old can be an advantage. While Sierra High had a unique layout and East Union had a shiny new kitchen to serve their students, it was the unique way that Manteca High utilized what space they had to make the entire lunch process work. The gorgeous deli lines inside of the cafeteria – with ‘Manteca’ etched into the artistic front that runs the length of the main lunch counter – are just the ... |
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Moderates gain in elections Tuesday Editor, Manteca Bulletin, After seeing the results of Tuesday’s elections across the country, I am pleased to say that moderates are making a comeback. Independents should be pleased. You saw it in both the New Jersey and Virginia election results. Both states elected Republican candidates who most would not call extreme, or radical. One interesting thing came out of the elections, in the exit polling that took place in these two states, 56% of Virginian’s ... |
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Churches do support the community Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I want to pass on my appreciation on the recent articles written about Calvary Community Church. We are past members of Calvary, my wife works at the pre-school (Lions and Lambs), and our children attend the AWANA program there. We don’t actively attend there for personal reasons, but we still love and support the ministries at Calvary. The senior pastor, Dan Angove, and associate pastors are great people, and we have many ... |
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Downtown’s future slogan: ‘Winos, hookers & tweakers’ Finally there’s a clear vision for downtown. It’s about putting truck access ahead of pedestrian ambiance. That’s right. Shorten landscaping medians and rip those blasted bulbs out. It’ll allow trucks to have their way and give motorists the ability to play Starsky and Hutch crossing busy traffic lanes traveling from one alley to another. Downtown Manteca doesn’t need landscaping to attract visitors. If curb-to-curb traffic lanes are OK for most of 11th Street’s vacant storefronts ... |
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What will happen to downtown now? Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I read with great interest your article regarding the downtown revitalization project getting a thumbs down once again. Several efforts have been made over the decades to move the downtown project forward without much success or cooperation. Manteca had a program wherein the merchants paid into a fund for the improvement of parking areas. I do not know if that program vanished, but I do recall that the meager fee paid by ... |
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Calvary finds out that no good deed goes unpunished Normally I do not get into commenting on remarks left on the Manteca Bulletin’s website. But the full throttle attack on Calvary Community Church “Christ is a verb for Calvary youth” in Tuesday’s Manteca Bulletin for allegedly not supporting the community through efforts like Turkeys R Us and instead investing in a youth center at their church campus is over the top. Calvary Community – along with many other houses of worship in this city ... |
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His son has a medical scare A common sight in the waiting rooms at most hospitals and health care facilities are the number of people wearing N95 respirators. |
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Cable customers ‘taxed’ by Manteca, satellite users aren’t Comcast Cable TV customers are getting hit with pass-thru franchise fees that are projected to bring in $500,000 into the City of Manteca’s general fund when the fiscal year ends June 30, 2010. |
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Father Joe & the season of Thanksgiving The first time I met Father Joe he was spread eagle in front of my mom’s home with a Lincoln Police officer standing over him. |
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Reasons not to trust government with our health care Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. They had 234 years to get it right and it is broke. Social Security was established in 1935. They had 74 years to get it right and it is broke. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. They had 71 years to get it right and it is broke. The War on Poverty started in 1964. They had 45 years to get ... |
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Money clouds perspective on Manteca housing Money – or the absence thereof – isn’t just the root of all evil. It also has a wonderful way of clouding people’s perspectives. |
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Recalling the Salk vaccine and 1956 Editor, Manteca Bulletin, I remember when the Salk vaccine came out in 1956; we all got it, the whole family; my mother and father, baby sister and younger brother; all five of us. Dad drove to the clinic on Monday the weekday his barbershop was closed. We were insured by the Permanente Health Plan (a division of Kaiser Steel Corporation) the shots were free with no co-pay and there were no problems with shortages; ... |
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Make Halloween real scary: Put Congress in charge Imagine if the federal government were in charge of Halloween. First, the Republicans would howl that it was nothing but welfare-style hand-outs. The Democrats would demand censuring anyone who wore a non-political correct costume. Southern states with sugar beet farms would seek tariffs against candy made with imported sugar. Nancy Pelosi would demand that homes that didn’t have trick-or-treat candy to distribute would be forced to participate in a public option where the government would ... |
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Forget 2010! Focus on Tuesday’s elections If you listen to the politicians and pundits in Washington, D.C., every move being made by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats and Republicans is all about the 2010 midterm elections. |
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No fireworks with Harmer, Garamendi No journalist who has followed Lt. Gov. John Garamendi over the years could be surprised at his answer to the final question at Monday night’s debate at St. Mary’s College among candidates competing to replace Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Walnut Creek, in Tuesday’s special election. When an opportunity for fulsome flattery presents itself, Garamendi does not miss a beat. |
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Saudi Arabia wants subsidy for lost oil sales By DONALD KAUL Washington correspondent When you think “chutzpah,” rarely is Saudi Arabia the first association that comes to mind. Chutzpah is a Yiddish word for the quality embodied by the fellow who kills his parents, then asks for mercy because he’s an orphan. Saudis tend to be Muslims. Their affection for things Yiddish is virtually undetectable. Nevertheless, if you’re looking for a hand-tooled, gold-leafed example of outrageous chutzpah, Saudi Arabia is the place to ... |
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Healthy candy is definitely an oxymoron Claus Spreckels must be laughing his head off up there in Sugar Land. Necco Wafers – the ultimate sugar high of childhoods past – is going natural. Artificial flavors and colorings are history. They’ve been replaced with beet juice, purple cabbage, cocoa powder, and turmeric. If you want to know what turmeric is, you can often found it as a spice in curries. This might lead you to believe they are healthy. Guess again. They’re ... |
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What a difference 10 years make: Food is tastier, more nutritional It’s been almost 10 years since I went through the lunch line at Sierra High School – where it wasn’t uncommon for me to grab a cheeseburger, fries, and a coke. |
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We need broad base of housing Editor, Manteca Bulletin, In 2008, I raised the issue of two communities in one--the new subdivisions and the existing older community. There is plenty of evidence where communities have grown without much consideration given to their existing older neighborhoods and then after decades of neglect it was necessary to come back to these older neighborhoods to address entrenched issues such as declined property values, crime, infrastructure maintenance, property maintenance, etc. Many of these problems could ... |
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Greed is now hurting those who resisted Send your congressman a congratulatory note. They have succeeded in penalizing people who have integrity and didn’t overextend themselves through unadulterated greed. The foreclosures that are starting to pop up now are people driven to the edge by months of reduced hours and loss of jobs. Washington may talk about the recovery starting but thanks to their inept, short-sighted fiscal policies that triggered the foreclosure meltdown and then managed to dilute integrity in their bid ... |
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A lot of community organizations go into making Lathrop School puzzle complete Editor, Manteca Bulletin, How long has it been since you’ve been in the classroom or even a school? Have you ever seen an SRO in action? You could be a piece of a larger puzzle toward success! On behalf of Lathrop Elementary, I want to thank those who have made a difference just recently and during our Back to School Night. It is impressive to see our community step up and help make success happen. ... |
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Dr. Smith said it best: “The pain, the pain of it all!” If pain is relative, then it must be one of my first cousins. One of the joys of living, if you call it that, is your body reminding you that you are alive. Mine does it on a daily basis whether it is jammed fingers, a toe that’s been broken for years, a bunion I hit wrong, an old shoulder injury or my upper right leg that is still smarting from a spill I took ... |
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Turn Manteca golf course into condo village Editor, Manteca Bulletin, The City Council has approved a series of outlet stores and smaller home development In Manteca. The outlet stores will provide the city with one time fees and a tax base for the city. With the Bulletin stating that sales are down by $100 million, I can’t see where the mall will provide much of anything, except what I mentioned. I see the small homes approved, as a project that will continue ... |
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Schlafly a liar & is plain wrong Editor, Manteca Bulletin, Not only is Phyllis Schlafly a liar, she is just plain wrong about health care reform. There are no “death panels”. Never was and never will be. The “death panels” was just a wild urban myth perpetuated by the wing nut conservatives because they have no plan of their own to help Americans deal with the issue of accessible and affordable health care. In addition the Congressional Budget Office, which both the ... |
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Newsom’s new edict: Illegals get pass on lack of driver’s license San Francisco seems to have a thing against law-abiding citizens. That city’s police department is now cutting those driving illegally – without a license – a big break. Starting Sunday San Francisco Police will cease impounding vehicles the first time any driver is pulled over that isn’t licensed to drive. And it’s all because a San Francisco supervisor pushing the issue thinks it is unfair to illegal immigrants. Of course it is perceived as unfair ... |
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