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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Four down and three to go?
Preservationist Joy Neas, present last night when the Council okayed demolition of four downtown hotels, writes:
Dan Cort, his staff and a variety of property owners advocated for demolition. I finally saw the opposition! They make a point. I don’t discount the need for parking or the importance of well maintained properties. What I do know is that debates [...]
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Trans-species victim blaming
What do you do when you’ve all but killed the Delta? Blame the fish! Dan Bacher refutes insulting nonsense from the State Water Contractors.
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A (firefighting) army travels on its stomach
Guess who fed the Southern California firefighters? The 209, baby.
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Reader: How to fix Stockton schools
Reader Bob Walsh opposes Stockton Unified’s $673 million bond. He thinks the schools should be reformed first. I asked him how.
Here is his reply:
I can’t say that I have a “plan” as such, but I do have a few ideas.
For starters, all administrators, including the state superintendent of public instruction as well as [...]
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Thoughts on this weekend’s story on dirty eateries
I was eating lunch with a friend not too long ago at a Stockton restaurant when he abruptly fell silent and peered into his Coke.
“What’s this?” he asked suspiciously.
Fishing around the ice with two fingers, he pulled up a dead, dripping cockroach. A robust specimen.
“Extra protein,” I said lamely.
We summoned the manager. The cadaver was [...]
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A refugee’s grievous story
Rattana Pok, a Stockton court interpreter and Cambodian refugee, has revised his memoir of harrowing times under the barbaric Khmer Rouge and made copies available on the Internet. I wrote about Pok in 2004. Read my sketch of his story here. Copies of his book, retitled, “When Slaves Became Masters,” can be ordered online here. His press [...]
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National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has come out swinging against Stockton redevelopment’s plan to demolish seven (or eight) downtown hotels. You should read their letter here. The crux of the debate over whether to demolish those hotels, in my opinion, is whether they have a re-use. Or, to put it plainly, whether they are good [...]
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Blogger boasts best burritos
“Lauren” has Arroyo’s right. The Chile Colorado Burrito at Cancun is nothing to sneeze at, either.
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Comment from a Delta smelt
Delta smelt were popping Champagne corks on Thursday after the long-awaited report by the Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force recommended that the state ought to give a damn about them and the waters they live in.
“… with the state’s thirst on a collision course with the delta’s faltering ecosystem, the panel’s bedrock conclusion is that the [...]
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A well-loved man passes on