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Its time for state university leaders to take Reality 101
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Want to get all warm and fuzzy about the prospect of voting for a half cent sales tax to support California education?Then think about the sacrifices being made by Leroy Morishita and Mildred Garcia. The two California State University College campus presidents each are struggling in this tough economy with measly 10 percent pay raises. That’s all the CSU trustees could give them under a policy adopted in January to mollify enraged students, professors, legislative leaders, and taxpayers who were enraged over executive pay raises while tuition is being hiked and enrollment slashed.Morishita will now receive a base salary of $303,660 for running CSU East Bay while Garcia will get a base pay of $324,500 to run CSU Fullerton.
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Endless police car crashes, dump opening & more: Working for the ‘weekly squeak’ as a 15 year-old
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Unusual police vehicle crashes — such as the one shown above 25 years ago when a Manteca Police unit ended up driving off a rural dirt road south of Woodward Avenue into a drainage ditch right after the vehicle the officer was pursuing did — were a routine occurrence for a while in Lincoln in Placer County.
Fifty-four years ago in February, I became the sports editor of the “weekly squeak”, the name that almost everyone in Lincoln called the News Messenger that has been publishing every Thursday since 1891.
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