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Mike Fitzgerald is The Record’s award-winning metro columnist. His column runs in the paper three times a week. Born in San Francisco, he was raised in Stockton. His column covers diverse beats including, sometimes, the offbeat. Read FullCategories
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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Cutting through the greenwashing and lies
Senator Dave Cogdill introduces the “Safe, Clean, Reliable, Drinking Water Supply act of 2009,” with the usual greenwashing and blather (”Investing in our aging water infrastructure plays a vital role in our state’s economic growth and in protecting the quality of life for every Californian.”) and Dan Bacher immediately pounces and proclaims the real deal.
…another thinly [...]
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County fair surpassing arena again?
The rock band Poison has announced it will play the San Joaquin County Fair on June 24.
Sure, they’re a dated ’80s hair band – hey, given the void at the arena, I’d settle. It’s time to call the man who replaced Jacqui James and is supposed to be filling the arena with entertainment dates. He came aboard [...]
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Who not to hire in 2012
Corrine Cervantes, the United Way embezzler — a hopelessly greedy Stockton embezzler in a class by herself – got five years for her latest crime. Boy, monotonously unrepentant recidivism doesn’t count for much these days. I find it surprising the District Attorney gave her a plea deal. This she-devil fakes remorse, then goes back to embezzling as [...]
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UOP: Forbes ‘Most Miserable’ analysis has ‘holes’
Does UOP’s student newspaper, The Pacifican, agree with Forbes that Stockton is America’s Most Miserable City? Not really.
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But hey, great grist for columnists
Termed-out Assemblyman Bill Maze’s solution to the water crisis: split California in two.
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Look! Up in the sky!
Reader Gordon Rose writes:
To the all-knowing one:
On Monday afternoon, at approximately 3:20, a jet passenger plane flew very low over North Stockton in the Park Woods/Lincoln Village area. Many people thought it was either going to crash, or it was a terrorist attack on the port. … There was nothing in the newspaper, so I am [...]
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Engineer: We refuted FEMA’s maps
Retired Civil Engineer Lynn Sutton writes:
Your article in today’s Record gives a very clear picture on how FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers approach, in a casual and inaccurate way, flood potential in urban areas. Historically they … realized that to do the most accurate analysis would cost mult-millions of dollars; money they could not justify [...]
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Our fans in the Himalayas
Nepal – yes, Nepal — finds much to admire in San Joaquin Valley’s water-efficient farming.
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Wolk: The Delta is more than just water
Senator Lois Wolk has made an important contribution to the Delta debate: the Delta has value as a region, and as a way of life.
Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) in a Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee hearing today called for the elevation of a goal to protect the Delta as a place (her press release says). [...]
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On the Sierra Nevada Conservancy