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His Voice: Life lessons from man’s best friend
It is with a heavy heart I’m writing this. I have to do one of the hardest things I’ve had to do in my life — I have to put down my beloved dog.
Mar 13, 2010 | 5 5 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Living Green: What’s in a flush?
It is the sign of a civilized society that we evolved away from the outhouse and brought our business indoors, but the water we use there is a matter for all citizens.
Mar 10, 2010 | 11 11 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Town Crier: 9-1-1 — Will this be credit or debit?
Sure enough, Tracy again has found itself in the national media. And, like the past few times in 2009, Tracy is not painted in a positive light.
Mar 09, 2010 | 23 23 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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His Voice: Rep. McNerney, please move us forward
I’m concerned about the excessive spending by the United States government. No, I am angry!
Mar 09, 2010 | 7 7 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tilted Windmills: Worrying really works
There are well-meaning people who will give us a hug and tell us “not to worry.” This is not only useless advice, it is counterproductive.
Mar 06, 2010 | 3 3 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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His Voice: Town is in need of some change
I have had different people ask me why I don’t run for office again. My answer was that I have been busy trying to save my home from the vicious real estate market.
Mar 06, 2010 | 31 31 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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His Voice: Robbing the GOP of credibility
by Mark Davis/For the Tracy Press
Mar 05, 2010 | 42 42 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
I once thought that Frank Aquila was merely a standard bearer for the gradual erosion of trust in the Republican Party. But after Aquila’s Feb. 27 column, I realized the brilliance of his efforts.
Town Crier: Can’t deny stimulus’ success
by Mickey McGuire/For the Tracy Press
Mar 03, 2010 | 19 19 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Twice in the past month, Dave Kerst has written to declare that the stimulus package has failed and that we would have been better off without it. This is exactly wrong.
His Voice: GOP revives the ghost of McCarthy
by Randy Yates/For the Tracy Press
Mar 02, 2010 | 16 16 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
McCarthy’s alive, living in the heart and soul of the president of the South San Joaquin Republicans, Frank Aquila.
His Voice: Tracy enters extortion game with paramedic fee
by Kevin Rice/For the Tracy Press
Feb 27, 2010 | 62 62 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
I cannot state this strongly enough: I would rather walk, bleeding and limping, to the hospital before I let your Tracy firefighters lay their hands on me.
His Voice: Democrats — Fulfilling the Communist agenda
by Frank Aquila/For the Tracy Press
Feb 27, 2010 | 118 118 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
The Communist Party of America hides no secret about turning America into a communist country. Their goal is outlined in the Soviet slogan, “Let us drive out the capitalist from Earth and God from ...
Town Crier: Tracy has changed, but that’s OK
by Dave Hardesty/For the Tracy Press
Feb 24, 2010 | 2 2 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
As I drove around in the mist and rain falling on the town I have lived in for 31 years, I got to thinking about all of the changes that have occurred here.
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