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Pay-check your facts, Wasden doubters
Let's get this out of the way right at the start. Yes, new Turlock City Manager Roy Wasden will be making just over $202,000 in base salary during his first year on the job. Ignoring taxes and required benefit contributions, that's enough for Wasden to purchase a beautiful new 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 1,500 square foot cul-de-sac home in Turlock with just one year of pay. Yes, Wasden will be receiving a $500 a month ...
From the desert to the valley
By now you might have seen my name in a few bylines in the Turlock Journal. I am the new education reporter, and I started the day after Memorial Day. I came in on that first day expecting to sign a stack of papers, fill out my W4 form and be in and out in about an hour. Boy was I wrong.
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From a nation of risk takers to a nation of litigators
A baseball fan turns away from the action at a minor league game in Idaho to chat with a friend. Suddenly, the crowd around him starts yelling. He turns back toward the field and is hit in the eye with a foul ball. Ultimately he loses vision in the eye. He sues. Earlier this month, NASCAR fans at Daytona sitting feet from the track where cars are racing at speeds approaching 200 mph ...
Yahoo's return to the Industrial Revolution
In January, the Journal relaunched its Women in Business publication after a four-year hiatus. When the advertising department first suggested bringing back this section, I was a little hesitant. Most of the women I know who hold leadership positions in their respective careers consider themselves professionals. Not women professionals. And all of the women interviewed for this year's special publication voiced the same opinion; gender was not a factor in their daily professional ...
The new math for employers
A side effect of more healthcare insurance coverage is becoming painfully apparent - a less robust economy for those struggling to stay afloat. It all comes down to two numbers: 49 and 29. Go above 49 employees and a business has to provide health insurance. Have an employee work more hours a week, and if you provide health coverage you have to extend it to them as well. The firms ...
Texas governor is California dreaming
Everything is bigger in Texas. Including the egos of their politicians. Texas Gov. Rick Perry came to California recently. His objective was to steal jobs. A Rhode Island-sized radio campaign - $24,000 worth of paid spots - preceded his pilgrimage to the cutting-edge land known as California. Perry's spiel is that he's heading here because it's hard to do business in California. It's so hard that Cupertino-based Apple has amassed $187 billion while Texas-based ...
Gun insurance is not the answer
Mandatory gun liability insurance for gun owners sounds reasonable, doesn't it? But so does mandatory liability insurance for dog owners. On paper, at least. In reality, all insurance will do is drive up the cost of owning a gun for responsible citizens and do little if anything to stop the criminal element or crazed individuals from killing people. Assemblyman Philip Ting, D-San Francisco, is pursuing a mandatory gun insurance requirement ...
Dorner's last day
My friends from out of town want to know what I thought of President Obama's State of the Union address. The answer is simple. I live in Los Angeles. I didn't see or hear the State of the Union address. I was watching the Christopher Dorner manhunt. In the days since Dorner became the most feared name in Los Angeles, my adopted city has gone through an emotional roller coaster: horror at the ...
Time to restore a rusting practice
It's commonplace to be familiar with those particularly disgruntled folks who breathe a sigh of relief at the end of each Valentine's Day. However, if there is one typical feature of Valentine's Day that we should take care to continue, it is writing meaningful cards and letters. I still hold memories of myself enjoying how fresh ink scratched the paper as I wrote all my birthday party thank-you notes nearly seven years ago, ...
Patterson dodges anti-Walmart forces
Patterson has done what Ceres has not, so far: Opened a Walmart Supercenter. It appears the project, which opened last month, dodged the bullet of the anti-Walmart forces. On the other hand, the proposed and approved Ceres Walmart Supercenter is balled up in legal proceedings that could take years. What gives? Why was Ceres targeted by paid Walmart assassin Brett Jolley (the attorney who makes a living by fighting Walmarts up and down California) ...
Famous villain back in the news
My father taught me the line when I was a child: "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"
Perhaps EPA will invade Mexico next
The Environmental Perfection Agency is finally having its wings clipped.
Do as I say, not as I do
There's a lot that Al Gore says that makes sense. Ditto for Warren Buffet. But the next time they lecture us you may want to see if their words match their actions. Gore has a long history of "do as I say" and "not as I do." It goes back as far as his speech as vice president, lecturing us on the immorality of buying and driving big SUVs and ...
Making the case for Big Brother
If I was a politician, I might be labeled a flip-flopper because I have recently reversed my previous opinion on a local governance issue. The matter in question: red light traffic cameras. Four years ago, the City of Turlock was considering installing red light enforcement cameras at two Turlock intersections. I was personally against the idea of traffic cameras and was happy when the City ultimately decided against their installation. I have since ...
Brown's legacy: Saving the state from splurge spending
Jerry Brown's legacy awaits. And so does the future of California.
Uncle Sam is tough with dopers but not with those who steal billions
I confess. I could care less that Lance Armstrong blood doped. I could care even less whether Barry Bonds and half of baseball uses steroids. They are playing games that happen to be big business. Yes, they either did or may have cheated. But why is this is a national crime? Should the FBI and the Department of Justice be spending inordinate amount of resources going after them? Yes, they broke the law. ...
Theft by any other name...
Information on the Internet should be free. It was the mantra of Aaron Swartz. Odds are you didn't know of him until this week. The 26-year-old man described as a crusader for social justice/cyber activist committed suicide. It was in the wake of federal prosecution for his crime of using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer network to download 5 million academic journal articles from a database that charges for access. Swartz ...
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