Author Archives: Don Blount

  There are always interesting things to see if we pay attention. As I was walking through downtown Stockton Thursday, I came across a black trash bag on the sidewalk. At least that is what was visible as I approached a Bank of Stockton building on Miner Avenue at San Joaquin Street. However, as I [...]

While on my way home from a bike ride Thursday I came upon a few police cruisers on AG Spanos Boulevard and Whistler Way. It looked like Whistler Way was blocked off so I made my way down to see what was going on. A traffic officer told me that there was a demonstration going [...]

The Record photographers have a knack for focusing in on their subjects and bringing out the detail. They do it with plants, clouds, animals and people. Often giving them much more impact than when viewed normally. Their work inspires me to view things differently, particularly small things that I may not have looked at closely [...]

University of the Pacific men’s basketball team’s first round NCAA tournament game against Miami begins at 11:10 a.m. Friday. The tournament itself began Tuesday with two play-in games, North Carolina A&T (the school my brother and his wife graduated from) defeated Liberty and St. Mary’s defeated Middle Tennessee. Two other games are scheduled for tonight. [...]

On Jan. 28, 1986 just moments after takeoff the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded. All seven crew members aboard were killed. Among them were Ronald McNair, 35, who was to be the second African American to go into space, and school teacher Christa McAuliffe, 37, who was selected from thousands of applicants for the teacher in [...]

I watched the news conference in which Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson announced some of the partners for a local ownership group he is assembling to bid on the Sacramento Kings and keep the team in the Capitol City instead of moving to Seattle. The number being tossed around for the value of the franchise is [...]

We see these crosses throughout the region in what to many of us appear to be random places, yet their placement is anything but random. Placed by loved ones, they mark the location in which someone has fallen, more than likely the victim of an accident or maybe a random slaying. This collection of crosses [...]

Blogs work best when relevant information is provided quickly. So in that regard, this post is an utter failure. But I’m going to proceed anyway. Above is a photo of the Gail, a bulk carrier headed down the Delta a few weeks ago, presumably toward the Deep Water Channel and the Port of Stockton. This [...]

We are just a month away from the Nov. 6 election and the debate season is going strong. Locally, Democratic Rep. Jerry McNerney and Republican Ricky Gill debate Oct. 15 in the Long Theatre at University of the Pacific to try and show voters who should represent our area in the newly drawn ninth Congressional [...]

At the end of a bike ride today, I stopped at my daughters’ elementary school to check out the new traffic pattern for pick up and drop off in anticipation of Wednesday (Aug. 22) the first day of school in Lincoln Unified School District. Lincoln is the last in the area to begin the new [...]