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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Mother who vanished
Sunday’s column about a mother who vanished after she was committed to Stockton State Mental Hospital in the 1950s brings a copy of a letter from the State Department of Mental Health Services to the woman’s daughter, Joyce Tafoya, who has searched for the truth for years.
It casts some light on the mystery.
“Good Morning Ms. [...]
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Requiem at the turning basin
Darren Bakke quietly watches the sun set over the turning basin at the Port of Stockton. Bakke was remembering his friend, David Looney, who died on Friday. Looney loved to fish the turning basin, Bakke said.
A splendid photograph by Clifford Oto.
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Shadowplay at Annunciation Cathedral
A reader sends this photo of the western face of the transept of Annunciation Cathedral. The ornament with the stone tracery casts a peculiar shadow: the shadow of a bull and a bear.
Or so he says. Do you see it?
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Growing bass ackward
I just filed a column about the need to crowd people more closely together in at least some Stockton neighborhoods – so-called high-density housing – or this region’s booming population growth will spread pavement over all open space and farmland.
Something to consider that didn’t make it into the column: Historically, Stockton built roughly 70 percent [...]
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RV mag extols Stockton
The current issue of Escapees, an RV club magazine, features a glowing story about Stockton. The club is holding its annual Spring Escapade here. Note also the ad for “RVing women.” Can’t have a Spring Escapade without them! Thanks to Eddie Hargreaves of The Haggin Museum for this fun item.
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Fed up with the cold?
DINKMCQS forwards a slide show showing really cold weather, and adds, “Stay warm and appreciate your weather after looking at this.
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Reader: Bush resembles Alfred E. Neuman
George Buckbee forwards this still photo from President Bush’s State of the Union speech last night.
“If this face is not right off the cover of MAD magazine, then I don’t
know what is!” Buckbee catcalls.
Sorry, George. That face is right off the cover of The Nation, as you can see.
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Kicking Pombo When He’s Down (VI)
Word arrived today that former Congressman Richard Pombo, recently handed his walking papers by voters, is being courted by the timber industry as a lobbyist.
What an incredible surprise.
A surprise, that is, that Big Oil lost the bidding war for a Representative so accommodating that he actually thought the obscenely rich industry deserved taxpayer subsidy.
A surprise [...]
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New Feature: “Huh?” Quotes
A Huh?” Quote is a something somebody says that makes little sense. Or none.
The first “Huh?” Quote of 2007 comes from Ron Baldwin, head of the county Office of Emergency Services. On the recent 10th anniversary of the catastrophic 1997 floods Baldwin was asked if the powers that be have taken necessary measures to prevent [...]
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A Valley success