Dave Granlund cartoon on President Donald Trump pardoning himself.
Granlund cartoon: Trump pardon
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Granlund cartoon: Spicer resigns
Dave Ganlund cartoon on Sean Spicer resigning as White House Press Secretary.
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Stockton Art Scene: Christmas in July highlights art events
In February I started hosting Behind the Arts Scene on Mondays at KXVS, the Voice of Stockton, a community radio station. My guests have included artists, musicians, singers, writers, directors, preservationists, and leaders active in community service and arts management. Behind the Arts Scene is part of the Spotlight on the Arts series that takes place noon-1 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Other hosts include Jocelyn Conde with Breaking Barriers and producer David Molina with [...]
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Granlund cartoon: McCain battles cancer
Dave Granlund cartoon on Senator John McCain battling cancer.
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Fitzgerald: From Sirius, with love
Sirius, the Dog Star, rises in the east before sunrise this time of year, signaling so-called dog days, summer’s hottest. It seems the little doggie is out of sorts this year.The city has broiled — if I’m counting right — through 19 days of triple-digit heat since May. Ten of them hit 105 or higher, surpassing our annual average before summer’s halfway mark.We could suffer double the bad heat, in other words.“We just [...]
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From the Editor: We are still here and plan to be here for awhile
Is it me?It seems that I have a problem keeping bosses.A little more than two months ago, my then-boss Mike Klocke resigned from The Record to become director of community relations at University of the Pacific.So long, my friend. It was a good 12 years.You leave and I get a promotion to your old job as editor of The Record, reporting directly to the publisher, Roger Coover.Then this past Friday, Coover announces he’s retiring.His successor [...]
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Gilbert: Restoration of 96-year-old schoolhouse a labor of love
Ruani Lavagnino is a first-generation American who grew up in Morada and attended Lodi schools. His wife, Sandy, also went to school in Lodi, meeting her future husband at Tokay High.Their connection to Greenwood Elementary School on Highway 88 was zilch.That didn’t stop the couple that ranches 90 acres of cherries just east of the school from buying the two-room school and lovingly restoring it, piece by piece, detail by detail.“It’s nicer than when [...]
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Grunder: Home is where you go when you find what you can afford
If you’re a San Joaquin County homeowner looking to sell, you’re in tall cotton as Mississippians like to say.Data out last week from the California Association of Realtors show prices are up and time-on-market is down. Those same factors spell tough times for home buyers.Here are a few San Joaquin County figures gleaned from latest CAR report:• The median priced home — half selling for more, half for less — went for $340,000 in [...]
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Fitz’s Stockton: Take the low road to Stockton
Have you ever been gridlocked on the Altamont? The traffic jams turn your brain to cement slurry.You don’t have to be a slave to the highway. An irregular network of old roads wends around the Altamont and zig-zags to Stockton across the countryside.These two-lane roads have a 1959 Valley character, and some surprises. Of course other commuters know this trick. But traffic on these byways is never bumper to bumper.When driving east through Livermore, take the [...]
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Matthew T. Mangino: Nevada shines light on parole, it is not pretty
Last week, the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners clearly demonstrated why the Nevada Legislature should send the seven commissioners packing, abolish the commission and create a system that won’t let offenders pander and parole decision-makers wither. O.J. Simpson’s parole hearing opened the door to a process of decision-making that, for many, had been unknown. Simpson’s brash denials of responsibility and minimization of his involvement in the [...]
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Mark L. Hopkins: Health care: What is the solution?
The Affordable Health Care Law (Obamacare) is self-destructing. The new plan presented by the Republicans can’t get enough votes to pass the Senate. It’s a mess. We have had four major efforts to deal with health care in the history of the United States. These include the creation of Social Security in 1936, Medicare and Medicaid in 1966, President Ronald Reagan’s IMPALA law in 1986, and President Barack Obama’s Affordable Health Care Law. [...]
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Celia Rivenbark: A story that could be made only in America
Oh, heavenly days. I had just barely removed the cold compress from my head after all the celebrating from last week’s “National Civility Day” when along comes the news that we must celebrate “Made in America Week.”Many have pointed out the embolism-inducing hypocrisy of Donald and Ivanka Trump declaring Made in America Day, Week, Year, Epoch when both use overseas factories to produce their, uh, fashions. Please let me join the chorus because [...]
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Charita M. Goshay: So ridiculous, it can’t possibly be true. So what?
Imagine being about 8 years old and being told that President William McKinley’s coffin had a glass lid through which you could see that his hair and fingernails were still growing.You can imagine my disappointment upon entering his tomb as an adult and discovering ...well, go and see for yourself.Last week, an online joke site published a wild-eyed, clearly phony and satirical claim that the Johnson Controls Hall of Fame Village had bought and planned to [...]
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Evan F. Moore: The hypocrisy in Minnesota’s latest police shooting
The most recent police-involved shooting has an interesting twist that shows the hypocrisy of how black lives seem not to matter as much as white ones. Mohamed Noor, a Somali-born Minneapolis police officer, shot and killed Justine Damond, an Australian-born white woman, who called to report an assault on July 15. Like some police shootings that have been brought to our attention in recent years, the officers’ body cameras were off during the incident. [...]
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Lloyd Garver: Kermit the Frog, you’re fired
The latest victim of the current anti-worker/pro-big business atmosphere is none other than the beloved Kermit the Frog. If you don’t think this is a big news story, you’re wrong. The New York Times put it on Page 1 of its business section (that Russian oil company controversy was on Page 4). It turns out Steve Whitmire, the puppeteer who brought Kermit to life for 27 years was recently fired by Disney, the company that owns the Muppets. When we look at this case in the proper [...]
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Granlund cartoon: Selective amnesia
Dave Granlund cartoon on the White House having selective amnesia.
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Liccar cartoon: Museum tour
Joe Liccar cartoon on taking a museum tour in 2017.
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Charen: Why would you want Putin as a friend?
Leaving aside the question as to whether there was actual collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 election, it is undisputed that candidate Donald Trump was eager for a friendship between our two nations. The most recent accounts of the president seeking out more one-on-one time with Putin at the G-20 dinner — using only a Russian translator — is the latest evidence that this enthusiasm is undiminished.President Trump has offered [...]
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McFeatters: What we've learned from six months of Trump
It's strange how six months can feel like six exhausting years when they've produced nothing but a string of nonsensical superlatives.As Donald Trump celebrates the first eighth of his ridiculous "amazing, stupendous, unsurpassed" presidency, we mere mortals are left to ponder what we have learned. Well, here are some takeaways:• Facts do not matter to this White House. Trump has publicly lied about important matters more than 100 times since becoming president. These [...]
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Hapless homeowner slowed by GFI-itis
Cycling blogger Richard Freggiaro usually writes about riding this bike. This time, he writes about maintenance at his house.I pressure washed the exterior of my house on a recent Friday and Sunday. The vinyl siding cleaned up nicely. Diane, my wife, was very happy and kept saying how great the house looked. And if she is happy everybody is happy. But no good deed goes unpunished. On the following Monday, I got out the electric lawn mower to cut our tiny piece of [...]
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