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Town Crier: The inmates are running the asylum
Children lack respect for parents, others
Jan 20, 2012 | 3 3 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Living Green: Live a sustainable resolution in 2012
There is something about resetting the clock on a new year that makes people believe in new beginnings. The hope that if we can just get our life in order, we will live a better life leads to our r...
Jan 13, 2012 | 3 3 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tilted Windmills: Complaining may be the new national pastime
Two very popular games of our time — described by Eric Berne — are “Ain’t it awful” and “Woe is me.” “Ain’t it awful” takes place in groups or in monologues about just how bad things are. There ar...
Jan 06, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tilted Windmills: Hope might be messy, but it beats the alternative
Hope is messy. My dog hopes that the kibble in the bottom of his dish will taste better than the bits on top. The result is pieces all over the floor. At our house, we hope that the orchids near...
Dec 30, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Their Voice: The clear cause of the Delta’s decline
Recently, The Stockton Record’s outdoor correspondent Pete Ottesen wrote about the California Department of Fish and Game’s proposed regulations regarding striped bass and about the impact of incre...
Dec 23, 2011 | 4 4 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Her Voice: Taking homeless help into her own hands
With winter quickly approaching and the holiday season here, it’s a perfect time to think of those whose lives have been turned upside down, even in our small community. The fact is the United St...
Dec 02, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tilted Windmills: Thankful for the little things
by Mike McLellan / For the Tracy Press
Nov 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
It's the daily, the mundane and the oft-overlooked that deserve extra attention this holiday season.
Town Crier: Extra time now pays off down the road
by Yolande Barial / For the Tracy Press
Nov 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The people we love the most are often the people who challenge us the most. The manner in which we take care of our children is the manner in which they will eventually take care of us, and themsel...
Tilted Windmills: Already burned out by campaign fever
by Mike McLellan / For the Tracy Press
Nov 11, 2011 | 6 6 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
If you're tired of the 2012 campaign season well before 2011 has wrapped up, you're not alone.
Town Crier: It's not uncertainty holding back economy
by Mickey McGuire / For the Tracy Press
Nov 11, 2011 | 51 51 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
American businesses are holding $2 trillion in cash, waiting for a turnaround in the economy. Why aren’t they spending it? Democrats and most economists say it is simply a matter of too little dem...
Their Voices: Keeping our promise on Veterans Day
by Reps. Jeff Denham and Tim Walz / For the Tracy Press
Nov 11, 2011 | 2 2 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
When President Woodrow Wilson designated Nov. 11 a day to honor our nation’s veterans, he was welcoming home a generation of service members from World War I.  With American troops expected out of ...
His Voice: Time for openness and transparency in city government
by Paul Miles / For the Tracy Press
Nov 04, 2011 | 38 38 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Tracy's government needs to give citizens more input and power over the process.
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