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Monthly Archives: March 2008
SJ points the way to reducing auto emissions
Hmm. So, reducing car pollution won’t save the Earth. The reason: the number of cars will increase so dramatically that the gains from “greening” will be lost.
What will work? It is being tested right here in San Joaquin. A blogger, channeling Forbes, has it here.
What he omits: developers are challenging SJ’s progressive solution in court. I am so rooting [...]
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Do developers fear City Hall is squishy?
Just how much influence developers exercise over City Hall is always an important question. A bit of light is cast by the developers this week. The Building and Industry Association of the Delta is seeking to join the lawsuit in which the Sierra Club and Morada residents are suing the city to slow growth.
The money quote [...]
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Charles Blodgett, 1918-2008, founded The Rush Room
Charles Blodgett, who founded a café devoted to Rush Limbaugh in the 1990s, has passed away. He was 89.
Blodgett died this week at a Livermore veteran’s hospital. He had been diagnosed with Mutiple Sclerosis in 1956 and told he had six months to live.
“(I) was told to ‘go home and get my affairs in order,’” he told [...]
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Stockton: We’re into Pleasure, not Sin
Marian Jacobs, who founded the city Arts Commission, says she has a better slogan for the City of Stockton.
“Stockton: The Port of Pleasure.”
She defended her thesis: “Considering everyting is right at the head of the Channnel, she said. “It covers the port, basketball, indoor soccer, hockey, fun events, the baseball diamond, The Hotel (Stockton), 16 [...]
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The practical reason to fight subpoenas
It’s not my place to speak for this paper in the matter of Scott Smith, the court reporter who was thrown out of a trial yesterday after a couple legal masterminds decided he might be needed as a witness (see this story to understand their thinking).
I can say what happens when a reporter gets subpoenaed [...]
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Thoughts on a Wilson Way prostitute
I was lunching at a Wilson Way sandwich shop today when a streetwalker sashayed by, her eyes scanning the oncoming traffic, looking for eye contact with Johns.
It got me thinking about the world’s oldest profession. Prostitution has been called a victimless crime. That is not true, exactly. The sex part is indeed a victimless crime, and [...]
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The Paragary’s guard — he’s OK
Friday night I returned to Paragary’s for my second visit. The same unsettling security guard was there, standing inside as before (see item, below).
“You’re back,” he said to me.
I digested this greeting. On my first visit I assumed I was just a face in a crowd. ”You noticed me,” I said. “Was that because I looked [...]
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More Paragary’s hors d’oeuvres
To complement today’s column about Paragary’s, a few more tidbits:
We stopped by the Hotel Stockton – the part of the building that houses low-income residents, not Paragary’s — and asked a couple of its residents if they planned to try the new restaurant.
Dennis Phillips tilted his head back and laughed. “Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! You [...]
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SF mag recognizes Stockton man
San Francisco’s AsianWeek gives a nod to a Stockton Filipino–Dillon Delvo. The writer, incidentally, is a former Record reporter.
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Stockton whups Vegas in meltdown madness!