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More Second Thoughts: A timely downtown cleanup

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News items off the cutting room floor of Tracy Press editor Jon Mendelson. Friday, December 2, 2011. A timely downtown cleanup. Leaving the Press on Thursday, the leaves downtown had been piled into huge drifts by the winds blowing through the previous two days. Fun for shuffling feet through fall foliage, but rather unsightly. On Friday morning, they were gone, collected by city crews. December 6, 2011 at 6:24 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. A timely downtown cleanup.

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More Second Thoughts: Special meeting sparsely attended

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News items off the cutting room floor of Tracy Press editor Jon Mendelson. Friday, December 23, 2011. Special meeting sparsely attended. One more point worth making about the City Council's special meeting decision. To green-light a business incentive program: lack of public involvement. The city manager suggested that the special meeting was necessary because the opportunity presented to the city might slip away if the council waited until the regularly scheduled Jan. 1 meeting. I am not educated person...

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More Second Thoughts: Teaching the journalists of the future

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News items off the cutting room floor of Tracy Press editor Jon Mendelson. Wednesday, August 27, 2008. Teaching the journalists of the future. If the parents of Millennium High School's budding journalist students knew who was to be guest lecturer in Wednesday's afternoon class, "excused absence" notes would have flown toward the attendance office. It's the unheralded part of a newspaper staff. Abuse it, downsize it, and eliminate it, though, and you're left with a newsletter instead of a newspaper&#...

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More Second Thoughts: July 2012

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News items off the cutting room floor of Tracy Press editor Jon Mendelson. Friday, July 20, 2012. While we're on the topic of no-tax pledges (as the second section of this week's column is) I think Congressional candidate Ricky Gill is making the same mistake Leroy Ornellas did in jumping aboard the no-tax pledge. But insisting everything must either reduce revenue or be revenue neutral seems to cut out a wide swath of middle ground. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.

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More Second Thoughts: July 2011

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News items off the cutting room floor of Tracy Press editor Jon Mendelson. Thursday, July 28, 2011. No punches pulled on McNerney announcement. Rep Jerry McNerney, who has no district to call his own thanks to redistricting, has announced that he will move to San Joaquin County and seek to represent a planned district that will include the north part of the county, as well as some of eastern Contra Costa County. Gill seems like a thoughtful man, and he speaks in nonpartisan terms that seeks to build brid...

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More Second Thoughts: June 2011

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News items off the cutting room floor of Tracy Press editor Jon Mendelson. Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Some might call it the 'Helm policy'. So the City Council has decided to clamp down on long presentations. At the beginning of the council meeting. It's an obvious response to public comment sessions over the past few months that have run on the long side. Much longer, in fact, than allowed for, according to the City Council's written policy. By and large, Ewert is right. There are two public comment ...

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Hill Country Mysteries: Mother's Day

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Explorations of a travel writer living in the beautiful Texas Hill Country.flora and fauna, nature and mysteries.food and wine.life. Sunday, May 10, 2009. We don't get a choice in who our parents are. But good or bad, we track back to them. We measure who we are now and how far we've come in terms of who we were as their children. Now, at 83, she's still the rock in our family. Still joyful. Still planting the future. I'm honored to honor her. Posted by Kathleen Scott. This is an outstanding post. I trav...

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More Second Thoughts: More no-tax talk

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News items off the cutting room floor of Tracy Press editor Jon Mendelson. Friday, July 20, 2012. While we're on the topic of no-tax pledges (as the second section of this week's column is) I think Congressional candidate Ricky Gill is making the same mistake Leroy Ornellas did in jumping aboard the no-tax pledge. But insisting everything must either reduce revenue or be revenue neutral seems to cut out a wide swath of middle ground. Vote No on Prop 32, 30, 38. Save California for our children. October 1...

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More Second Thoughts: Downtown problems, case in point

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News items off the cutting room floor of Tracy Press editor Jon Mendelson. Tuesday, November 1, 2011. Downtown problems, case in point. I've put this opinion in print before. If everyone doesn't get on the same side — that means the city, business owners and property owners — downtown Tracy will languish, redevelopment effort or no. A case in point happened this week, when structural problems left unaddressed by a property owner forced the closure. Plus, the beer selection was superb.). Agreed that this ...