My first lesson in a community’s failure to have a frank discussion about how government works — and by extension doesn’t work — was highly personal.
It was 1965. I was 9 years old at the time. The City of Lincoln had a council that the majority took pride in the fact they never raised taxes..
Would you vote for a sales tax hike to make sure fire engines keep responding in a timely manner?
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Nothing is more bizarre than Californians mocking Californians for being Californians -
Stuff the Bus: A Christmas ‘toy’ wish of a 7th grade boy is something I’ll never forget -
The ‘next big thing’ in Ripon is now under construction today in Manteca -
Our education and what we learn is sum total of the good, the bad, and the ugly