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7,000 crosses turn park into hallowed ground
God and country. The mere mention of the two words together – or even separately – in some corners of our society will get the eyes rolling and cynicism flowing. If Mike Dillman has anything to say about it, that won't happen here. Dillman is pastor of The Place of Refuge in Manteca. He is also a Vietnam War veteran. He also believes in America. He's a die-in-the-wool, true blue American who is proud ...
IRS is turning into thought police
Lie to the federal government and you'd better get you affairs in order. Ask Martha Stewart. But if the government lies to you, oh well. The protected status of government lies is being showcased by the liars in the Internal Revenue Service. It is bad enough they want you to believe targeting specific groups wasn't politically motivated just because some high ranking party official didn't sic the IRS henchmen on ...
Cultural diversity brings us together
I've said it before, and I'm going to say it again. Turlock needs to bring back its cultural festivals. Cultural diversity is one of the Valley's greatest strengths, and it should be celebrated whenever possible. I've lived in Turlock for over 14 years now, and I'm still learning about the many cultural backgrounds of area residents. On Saturday, I joined the Sons of Norway for their annual Syttende Mai (May 17) celebration in ...
Putting an end to years of bureaucratic delays for Keystone XL pipeline
Leadership from the President on the Keystone XL pipeline is long overdue. This week, the House of Representatives will vote on the Northern Route Approval Act. As leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and cosponsors of this important legislation, we were proud to play a vital role in moving this bill forward to end the years of delay and make this job-creating project a reality. It's not fair that Washington is ...
Congress shall make no law...
And I wondered why people don't trust the government. I made sure that both of my feet were firmly planted on Roth Road before my Nikon digital SLR shutter started snapping photos of the Defense Distribution Depot San Joaquin sign for a story that was set to run the following day. As long as I wasn't parked on, or standing on, government property, there was no way that overzealous base security personnel could hassle me, ...
May is National Bike Month — a perfect time for our community to recognize and celebrate all the ben
The San Joaquin Valley's blessing is its curse. It was once part of a great inland sea stretching 450 miles from the Cascade Mountains north of modern-day Redding to the Tehachapi Mountains just south of Bakersfield. It varies in width from 40 to 60 miles bordered by the mighty Sierra to the east and the Coastal Ranges on the west. The retreating sea left two things immensely valuable to modern civilization especially in the ...
Thank you, Turlock
When I walked into the offices of the Turlock Journal I was expecting a hectic newsroom with people yelling across the office, papers flying, phone cords wrapping around computers as some frantic writer tries to write down notes from a phone interview that took six weeks to get. Much to my surprise, I was greeted with a friendly face, a quaint office and warm smiles from each one of my co workers. Honestly, it ...
Time to get physical
I've always felt that the rapid approaching of summer has a unique power of infusing a new type of energy in people. There's something undeniably exhilarating about the promise of sunshine that inspires a mindset to try something new. It seems rather befitting, then, that May was designated National Physical Fitness and Sports Month by the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. The council, having been active for over 50 years, brings ...
Venture into the wild at your own risk
Yosemite National Park is not Disneyland. That doesn't stop people from doing stupid things. Nor does it deter them from suing when things go wrong. It is why the biggest threat to the public accessing national treasures such as Yosemite might be the ferocious species known as class action lawsuit lawyers. Back in June, deer mice triggered a hantavirus outbreak in Curry Village. When the extent of the problem became known by ...
Welcome to Turlock
Playing host is nothing new for Turlock. The town welcomes thousands of athletes and fans to its fields and diamonds each year; sees over 200,000 visitors to the Stanislaus County Fairgrounds; and is the site of Christmas and Fourth of July family traditions for thousands of parade attendees. Turlock recently saw new-found fame as San Francisco 49er fans and Colin Kaepernick supporters flocked to the QB's hometown for a truly unique NFC Championship ...
Beware of sugary drink tax: It might end up killing you
How many calories are in 16 ounces of orange juice? Try 220 calories. How about 16 ounces of beer? It has some 200 calories. What about the caloric count of 16 ounces of Red Bull? It comes in at 220 calories. And how many calories are in 16 ounces of my favorite poison, strawberry-banana V8 Fusion? There's a whopping 240 calories. Which brings us to the $2.6 billion question: How many calories are in ...
Affordable Care Act offers small businesses better choices
For years, we had a health insurance market that was broken for small businesses. Because they had less bargaining power, small businesses paid an average of 18 percent more for the same health insurance plan offered to the bigger business down the street, and their premiums could skyrocket if a single employee got sick. But because of the Affordable Care Act, California's small businesses and their employees are getting better choices, starting with ...
The baby-faced bomber
Sometimes a picture speaks volumes. Sometimes it's outright deceptive. The picture of "Bomber No. 2" didn't look a bit like a mass murderer. A sweet-faced college kid, the former lifeguard, the nice young man described by classmates and friends. It couldn't be. There must be some outside organization calling the shots. An international conspiracy, perhaps. Brainwashing. Or maybe it was just a deceptive picture of a cold-blooded murderer. He and his brother ...
Stop me before I buy food
There is no problem too flimsy for California's nanny lawmakers, as witnessed by the many laws that state solons have proposed to keep constituents from getting free plastic bags at the grocery. Those teensy plastic bags are cheap. They're lightweight. They're energy-efficient. People use them a lot, which means that they can end up as litter. That can be ugly. So Sacramento Democrats keep concocting bills to outlaw their idea of blight - not ...
Hitting home
I'm from Boston. Over the years, I lived in two apartments within a stone's throw of Monday's bombings. Over the years, I stood and cheered marathon runners countless times. I know every square inch of the area in all the pictures, which is hardly unusual. It's the center of Boston. My nephew was around the corner when the explosions went off. This week's terror hit home for me. And what to do? ...
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Environmental perfection claims another 118 jobs
Clean air, or perhaps more precisely, environmental perfection is the killer of blue collar head-of-household jobs in the San Joaquin Valley. The 118 men and women who are about to lose their paychecks at one of Lathrop's most high profile and longest employers - the Pilkington flat glass manufacturing facility - are the latest victims. Sixteen years ago it was 220 workers at Manteca's Spreckels Sugar plant. In both cases, each manufacturer had spent ...
Google Glass may do for eye sight what iPods have for hearing
Remember the good old days? It's when TVs required vacuum tubes and about the flattest they got was three feet deep. Meanwhile the screen was the size of a moderate-sized tablet and, if you were lucky, produced a relatively clean black and white image devoid of snow. Now TVs thinner than a book dubbed "The Wit and Wisdom of Congress" adorn the walls in many homes. They are often larger than the screens that ...
New report highlights the need for a Food, Farm and Jobs Bill
This week, the White House released a new report showing the critical need for Congressional passage of a new Food, Farm and Jobs Bill. This comprehensive report highlights how the thriving business of agriculture is a cornerstone of America's economy, creating jobs and boosting opportunity. Agricultural production and its related sectors contributed $743 billion to U.S. GDP in 2011, accounting for nearly 5 percent of economic output. Today about one out of every 12 jobs ...
'Wild Turkey on the Rocks?'
Much we believe about turkeys is not true. Myth No. 1: They were served at the "first Thanksgiving" feast in Plymouth, Mass. There's no evidence for that. The Plymouth Colony governor, an observer wrote, "sent foure men on fowling" for the dinner. Fowling is an Old English reference to waterfowl. So ducks and geese were probably on the menu, not turkey. Myth No. 2: Benjamin Franklin proposed that the wild turkey ...
Giving so much more than thanks
Thanksgiving is a uniquely American invention, and I think it must be one of our finest. The celebrations, the food, the parades and pronouncements give us an annual reminder of all that we are so thankful for – and also a reminder to share our blessings. One benefit of my position as California's Secretary of Agriculture is that my department coordinates the annual State Employees Food Drive, which last year donated 647,110 pounds ...
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