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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Public servants serving themselves
After reading today’s column, reader Tony Stevens sends these graphs, which show that “Median public sector pay long ago left median private sector pay in the dust.”
Steven’s comment:: “I think I chose the wrong line of work.”
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An old-school public servant
Michael Ball, a social worker with San Joaquin County, writes:
Thanks for the article today. Public service is just that. I came here because I wanted to give back to society, not extract from it. Many of the folks I work with have the same ideals, some don’t. Fundamentally, I believe, our county is [...]
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What the heck, it’s Friday
So consider the latest piece of work by CalTrans, this sign on the southbound offramp of the Alpine Avenue/Country Club Boulevard on I-5:
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Bill Yee interrupts our nature moment
Reader Randy Berkman spotted Canada geese around Micke Grove Park. Enamored, he sent this photo,. apparently believing he had enjoyed a rare encounter with Nature’s awesome aviators as they touched down midway along some marathon migration.
To see if that was the case, I called David Yee, the area’s top birder.
“They’re a pest,” Yee snorted. “They have become semi-domestic. They’ve [...]
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Good to have you in our corner, Manteca
The managing Editor of Manteca’s paper compares Stockton and Modesto as destinations and decides he’d rather go to Stockton.
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Spelling "drat" isn’t rocket science
He misspells “drat” in his tweet. Jose Hernandez spelled it “drats.”
“It’s either ‘drat’ or ‘rats’,” objects one reader. “He obviously hasn’t read many comic books.”
Young Hernandez was probably devouring a tome on particle physics. Or perhaps, as one newsroom wit suggested, he intended more than one drat, so expressed it in the plural, like “Curses!” Or maybe [...]
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L.A.’s top water dog promises not to bite us
“Southern California doesn’t seek more water from the delta.” – And if you believe that, I’ve got an opinion piece for you in the Los Angeles Times by the head of the Metropolitan Water District.
I dismiss assurances that a peripheral canal won’t take more water with a modicum of reluctance. But I dismiss them. No dam or canal [...]
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Our man in Honduras
Just back from Honduras: Patrick Walton, a senior at University of the Pacific. Walton, 21, belongs to the Ambassador Corps, a UOP program that sends student members to foreign countries.
Walton was sent to the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa and work in micro-loan programs. He was there when the president was deposed and his supporters staged [...]
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Reader decrys Goehring’s weird stump speech