Monthly Archives: August 2007

Delta Queen’s timely TV appearance

By Site Admin | Published: August 31, 2007 | Comments closed
No sooner did we write about the Delta Queen riverboat than Huell Howser’s “California Gold” TV show features the Stockton-made paddlewheller tonight. And maybe a few Stocktonians. “Huell Howser travels over 2,000 miles east to rediscover the Delta Queen’s California history and roots,” his website says. “Also, along for the ride are several Californians who remember her [...]
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Whoa, dude. It’s God!

By Site Admin | Published: August 30, 2007 | Comments closed
 A woman in Lodi says Jesus has appeared on her sister’s fence. In a knothole. Emily West “was doing some meditating” in her sister’s back yard when she noticed the divine apparition, a local TV station reports. “I looked up and saw the face of Christ in the fence and I said, “Whoa,” West said. “I’m a breast [...]
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Delta Queen links

By Site Admin | Published: August 29, 2007 | Comments closed
Reader Joel Reyna Jr. writes: Loved the article on the DQ.  Apparently many people around the world know a lot about the Delta Queen. …  There are sites devoted to saving the DQ from ruin, her history, and her current life as one of the reigning steam boats on the Mississippi River. www.steamboats.org was a favorite. The National [...]
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And Mark Twain is for quoting

By Site Admin | Published: August 29, 2007 | Comments closed
The best “model” for fighting the corporate takeover of water? Stockton, California – according to Corporate Crime Reporter. “The movie unintentionally makes the argument that the local citizen action model wins – hands down,” the writer says about “Thirst,” the anti-privatization movie featuring Stockton. Read the whole piece here. And look for Larry Ruhstaller channeling Mark Twain [...]
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It’s not just the Delta, but the bay

By Site Admin | Published: August 29, 2007 | Comments closed
A man over-waters his lawn in Pasdena and a salmon is harmed in San Francisco Bay.   The nexus: the Delta.   “Too much fresh water coming down from the Central Valley through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is being diverted to Southern California, making the Bay and the Delta too salty,” says an environmentalist to the San Francisco Sentinel.   Click [...]
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The driveway as culinary tool

By Site Admin | Published: August 28, 2007 | Comments closed
A Portland foodie, inspired by The Record’s Sacramento Bureau chief, posts a recipe for making tomato paste in one’s driveway.   I’m not making this up.  
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Port City Roller Girls notch first victory!

By Site Admin | Published: August 28, 2007 | Comments closed
Hello Norm Anomaly:         Were you trackside last Saturday for our first victory? Yes, The Angry Beavers left Stockton even angrier….There was a capacity crowd to witness PCRG get the job done, working together to shut down their offense and make way for our jammers find their way through the pack to [...]
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Question: why do developers continue to build homes in this doomed market?

By Site Admin | Published: August 27, 2007 | Comments closed
An online housing publication looks at Mountain House and answers:   “The developers have little choice. They paid millions of dollars to buy the home sites and are obligated to pay for the streets, sewers, water treatment plants and schools before houses can be built. The only way to recoup their costs is to sell homes.” [...]
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A (verbose) voice of sanity

By Site Admin | Published: August 27, 2007 | Comments closed
A fishing club that happens to have the best environmentalist in San Joaquin County as its leader has released its vision for restoration of the Delta. It is precisely the sanity the Delta needs. A quote at the heart of it: “For much of their history, State and Federal contracting processes have promised and delivered more water [...]
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Tuberculosis diaries

By Site Admin | Published: August 24, 2007 | Comments closed
The following is a blog post by Andy Pope, a disabled musician who lives in Lodi’s Imperial Hotel. Pope was exposed to Bobby Presley, the Lodi man who went to jail this week for exposing people to his tuberculosis:   Friday, August 24, 2007 I was on KCRA news at 11pm last night. That’s Channel 3, Sacramento California. [...]
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