Monthly Archives: April 2007

Letter from Filipino Prison

By Site Admin | Published: April 30, 2007 | Comments closed
Michael Lopez, a Stockton man in a Filipino prison, sends photos and an update. “Well, it’s me again,” says Lopez, 39, who was convicted of murder in 2003. Lopez says he is innocent. “Here are a couple of pictures of my so-called room,” Lopez writes. “To me, it feels like an oversized coffin. “I have a small window [...]
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Norm N. Vasion’s Roller Derby Update

By Site Admin | Published: April 30, 2007 | Comments closed
The Port City Roller Girls, Stockton’s wacky and wonderful roller derby team, lost its rematch against the Sac City rollers in Davis Saturday night. But lost in a good way. “I am so proud and impressed with the performances of these PCRG ladies,” glowed Coach Congeniality. “They were a way different and much improved team than [...]
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Gov’t class: Heat is hot

By Site Admin | Published: April 30, 2007 | Comments closed
Since the dawn of humankind – no, before it, when our species was still swinging through the trees – instinct has told us what to do in the heat. Slow down, find shade, drink water. Every baboon knows to do this. But not Stocktonians! We require government to tell us what to do. So Cal/OSHA’s “Standards [...]
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Drugs and mass shootings

By Site Admin | Published: April 30, 2007 | Comments closed
One psychiatrist finds a common thread running between all mass-murderers: antidepressants. Did you know Patrick Purdy was on Elavil? I didn’t. Read an important theory here.
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Amtrak: 0% on time

By Site Admin | Published: April 27, 2007 | Comments closed
Stations along the Amtrak San Joaquin route are so busy they are adding platforms. But what leaps out of this brief railroad blog is the “endpoint on-time” record of the California Zephyr back to October of 2006 – Zero percent. Sheesh. You’d think things would fall into place, if only by happenstance, and the train [...]
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Man dies — again

By Site Admin | Published: April 27, 2007 | Comments closed
Frank “Uncle Leo” Brooking, 82, is in today’s obituaries – for the second time. According to those who knew him, Brooking liked to tell the story of how this paper ran his obituary way back in the 1930s. Back then, the lake in American Legion Park was a popular swimming hole. Brooking drowned in it. [...]
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Fabic features Valley landmarks

By Site Admin | Published: April 26, 2007 | Comments closed
A fabric with the Hershey’s chocolate syrup plant on it? A quilter/blogger extols it here.
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Schooldad: Media forgetting Cleveland School

By Site Admin | Published: April 25, 2007 | Comments closed
Kenneth Vetter of Stockton is bothered that the Columbine school massacre has become the touchstone for every new campus shooting. Why? Vetter had two kids at Cleveland School that day in 1989 when Patrick Purdy opened fire, killing five children and wounding 30. “I just don’t feel like people are regognizing Cleveland School,” Vetter objected. Vetter’s oldest [...]
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Voluptuous, no less

By Site Admin | Published: April 25, 2007 | Comments closed
“Soft, round, spicy and jammy with voluptuous overtones of plums and blueberries, this wine lives large” – a wine blogger reviews a Lodi zinfandel. Read the whole rhapsody here.
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An amazing panhandler

By Site Admin | Published: April 24, 2007 | Comments closed
I was pounding the pavement on Washington Street, researching Wednesday’s column, when a skinny, fast-talking man with a positively loony vibe approached me. “Did you ever see me do a backflip? I’m from Oakland,” the man babbled in a cheerful torrent of words. This man then executed a running — I kid you not — triple [...]
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