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Second Thoughts: American justice offers a glimmer of hope
Every once in a while, hope can be found even amid the most devastating and unlikely of circumstances.
Feb 27, 2010 | 3 3 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Second Thoughts: Tracy a long shot for smoke shop
A medical marijuana dispensary in Tracy? You must be smoking something.
Feb 20, 2010 | 11 11 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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A crowd of hundreds gathered outside the new Tracy Transit Station at Sixth Street and Central Avenue during grand opening ceremonies Monday afternoon.  Glenn Moore/Tracy Press Second Thoughts: Just another beginning in downtown Tracy
Construction of the Tracy Transit Station is finished. But it’s only one more beginning for the redevelopment of downtown.
Feb 06, 2010 | 10 10 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Second Thoughts: Swim center requires prudence, patience
Since the prospect of a water park was first dangled by developers as enticement for Tracy to OK more residential development, Tank Towners have by and large been smitten.
Jan 23, 2010 | 30 30 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Second Thoughts: A first look at a crowded congressional competition
Six Republicans have five months to seize one chance to knock off incumbent Rep. Jerry McNerney. The competition began in earnest Monday.
Jan 16, 2010 | 3 3 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Second Thoughts: A familiar face in a different race
Richard Pombo is a rare commodity in modern elections: The man who doesn’t run from his record. When you vote for him, you know what you’re in for.
Jan 09, 2010 | 6 6 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Second Thoughts: Prevention is key to Tracy’s gang problem
by Jon Mendelson/Tracy Press
Jan 02, 2010 | 17 17 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
A father in jail. A mother addicted to meth. No home. No school. No stability. Just the money he could hustle to feed himself and his sister. According to one who knew him well, such was the first ...
Second Thoughts: Doing the job proves unsettlingly familiar
by Jon Mendelson/Tracy Press
Dec 25, 2009 | 3 3 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Another Tracy neighborhood was disturbed by gunfire a week ago. And, again, it ended in tragic results.
Second Thoughts: Vote moves downtown development forward
by Jon Mendelson
Dec 19, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
While most people were deciding what to give for Christmas, property owners in downtown Tracy were deciding how best to continue the city center’s rebirth.
Second Thoughts: The spirit of Santa lives on
by Jon Mendelson
Dec 12, 2009 | 2 2 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
I’m happy to say that the spirit of Santa Claus — the charity, generosity, and jolliness, the “childlike faith,” “poetry” and “romance” — is alive and well in Tracy.
Second Thoughts: Three cheers for a sporting success
by Jon Mendelson
Dec 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
All good things must come to an end. Still, positives were probably tough to come by in the Tracy High varsity football team’s locker room a week ago.
Second Thoughts: As one era ends, another begins
by Jon Mendelson
Nov 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Before this newspaper reaches your kitchen table, the Tracy High Bulldogs will have either lost to the visiting Enochs High Eagles or moved on to the second round of the playoffs.
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