Thursday March 08, 2007 Welcome to the overview page. Here is your one stop shop for news and issues concerning Manteca, California -- without the "spin." This is a propaganda-free zone! Current Issues: Here's a preview of the Manteca Live blog. Click for more.
Previous featured content:
 Merry Christmas, Manteca!
Left: In a nod to our agricultural heritage, the city's Christmas Tomato. Safety warning: Motorists driving around Manteca are cautioned to be on the look out for boy scouts and the elderly jumping into the street in front of them. Use care to avoid hitting them. The "Try to Miss the Kid" program is sanctioned by the Manteca Police department in an effort to teach motorists the importance of being attentive. In this well thought out program, a police officer pushes a young or elderly person into the street at various busy intersections. Then, the policeman lectures or cites any motorist who comes close to hitting the subject. This sounds like a joke, and I wish it were a joke, but this has been reported by several reliable news sources. 
The thousand dollar hot dog. That's how much every man, woman and child has paid for the Big League Dreams ballpark. And what do we get for it? A hot dog. One per person please!
School Board meeting summary: - Teachers and administrators give themselves huge raises.
- French Camp school, and possibly two other schools are failing under NCLB standards; preparing for "restructuring."
- National news crew (NBC) made big deal of Woodward School sending some stuff to soldiers in Iraq.
- UPDATE: NBC Nightly News broadcast the above mentioned report Friday, 17 Nov 2006. In case you missed it, Manteca Live! has a video available. Click here for the low quality version, or, if you are patient, click here for the not-as-low quality version.
Right: Veterans' Day in Manteca. More photos
Election Day results: Voters say maybe a new tax isn't such a bad idea considering the alternative is enduring four more years of whining from the Mayor and Council.Press Room: Read what others are saying about my favorite subject, me. Thank you for your support! - Background info on last election moved to below.
- Manteca's tax plan diagram moved to the press room.
Coming soon: Read about my adventure as a "poll worker" and the abomination we call "voting."
Other News: Background on the Measure M Tax plan: A report to the people of Manteca. In case you missed it. Added What people are saying." Yes, that is real. The governor did say that about me in an email dated 3 Feb 2006, 2:05 AM. I feel a little bad I kept him up that late. New photos of "Pumpkin Festival" California and Manteca, the photographic essay. View the entire photo project (so far!): View here!
What people are saying: ...the city watchdog...
-Tri-Valley Herald, Nov 9, 2006 "...the best analysis...you could ever read..."
-Fleener, resident of Manteca "an informed and engaged citizen...."
-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California "This man's an expert...!"
-March of Dimes member, introduction to Mayor Rhodes I would vote for Joe for mayor of Manteca!
-Vic, Californian ... the smartest man in Manteca!
-Resident of Lathrop, California "...you're talking like an idiot!"
-Jackie
New feature: 
A look at things that you read here first. - You read here that the Manteca Unified School Board's plan to charge "$2 a day to ride the school bus" was just a propaganda threat, to frighten people into voting them a raise. Jackie wrote it would "quietly go away." I didn't know it would only take 8 days after the election! Read more at Measure M.
- You can also read about how, back in October, I wrote that the "hype" about the terrible flu season was just a ploy to sell the new expensive vaccine. See Flu Attack!
- You can also read about the tragedy in the Larch-Clover neighborhood. The humble people in this enclave were living relatively independent lives. That is, until the City of Tracy saw the land and coveted it. Now, as I predicted back in October, lives are being crushed and people are at risk of losing their homes.
- Manteca bond , supposed to fix the "falling apart" schools, is going to lavish pay raises for administrators..
   
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