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Daniel Thigpen

Reporter Daniel Thigpen has been with The Record since 2006 and has covered the Lodi area since 2007. A North Carolina native, he’s worked at newspapers in the Tar Heel state, Tacoma, Wash., and Northern California.

Second try not a charm in effort to sell Lodi’s electric utility

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: March 9, 2010 | 0 Comments
David Christy, the Lodi man who wants to force the city to sell its Electric Utility, tried again today a request to circulate a petition in his effort. And again, he was turned away at City Hall. The problem, City Clerk Randi Johl told him, was that his filing still did not meet the state’s legal requirements [...]
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Taco trucks getting unannounced inspections

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: March 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
At tonight’s Lodi City Council meeting, city leaders received a report from the Police Department on stepped up enforcement of code violations at the city’s popular lunch wagons. The last time the City Council discussed the issue of the roaving restaurants, some council members complained that they frequently found exposed cords, outdoor canopies and other code [...]
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At Lodi City Council: Flowing discussion over waste facility

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: March 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
There was quite a bit of discussion tonight about a planned new waste storage facility at the White Slough sewer treatment plant off Interstate 5. Lodi officials asked the City Council to authorize putting out to bid a proposed $5 million bio-solids storage facility at the sewer plant.  The money would come from leftover proceeds of [...]
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Tonight’s Lodi City Council agenda

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: March 3, 2010 | 0 Comments
Here’s tonight’s agenda. There will be discussions on sidewalk repairs, whether to accept a sculpture and a report from the Police Department on mobile food vendor code enforcement issues. I’ll post a few updates from tonight’s meeting on Twitter and Facebook (and of course, the blog).
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Lodi City Council considering water meter payment plan

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: March 2, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Lodi City Council met this morning to discuss, once again, how to best pay for the state-mandated water meter installation throughout the city. The state has mandated that all cities switch to meter-based billing to help conserve water. Problem is, many folks in newer homes already have paid for the modern meters. Older homes don’t [...]
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Read the appeal against Lodi’s Costco

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: March 2, 2010 | 0 Comments
While Wal-Mart is going through quite the legal slog, Costco’s bid to build in Lodi appeared to be sailing through without much opposition. So much for that. Click here to read the appeal for yourself. I’d also suggest you read this. Because of space issues with today’s story, I couldn’t go into as much of the background on [...]
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Downtown Lodi merchants holding fundraiser for broke Scout troop

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: February 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
Remember the local Boy Scout troop whose treasurer was arrested on suspicion of embezzling up to $25,000 from the group? Downtown merchants are holding a fundraiser for the kids on Sunday. Read more here.You can also check out the event’s Facebook page here.
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So much for the interim erosion repairs

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: February 25, 2010 | 0 Comments
Last year, state volunteers installed sandbags and plastics tarps as a temporary remedy to the severe erosion along the Lodi Lake Nature Area’s riverbank. According to these photos from city spokesman Jeff Hood, it doesn’t look like those repairs, which cost about $5,000, held up very well.  Many of the sandbags have disappeared, it seems. Lodi was [...]
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Project Lodi Art mosaics to be unveiled next week

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: February 25, 2010 | 0 Comments
This project has been a long time in the making. There was some recent controversy, but that’s died down. On Friday, March 5, the mosaics that will be installed on East Lodi Avenue will be unveiled. Here’s a sneak peak courtesy of the organizers:
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Hansen wrapping up public power lobbying in D.C.

By Daniel Thigpen | Published: February 24, 2010 | 0 Comments
I caught up with Lodi City Councilman Larry Hansen on his cell phone this afternoon. He was in a Washington airport waiting to come back west. Turns out Hansen, who also is chairman of the board for the Northern California Power Agency (of which Lodi’s Electric Utility is a member) was in D.C. the past three [...]
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