A relaxing nap can be a good way to spend the holiday which honors workers.
We give thanks to all the people who worked over the three day weekend taking care of the rest of us loafers.
And special thanks to organized labor, which has brought us the five day work-week, safer workplaces, fair pay and continues to fight for worker rights in general. Their work is never done.
In this week's newsletter we're also taking a break, and will be back in action next week with a look at the unusual number of city council elections being cancelled for want of candidates running against incumbents, and a reflection on how California is burning oil to make water.
In the meantime, enjoy the recipe of the week and catch up on all the news and government announcements from last week, below.
It's National Preparedness Month and, by proclamation of the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors, Community Preparedness Month. Learn more about how you can prepare for emergencies or disasters in the article.
(09/03/2024) Manteca Bulletin
Beginning the week of September 16, the City of Manteca will be replacing resident blue recycle carts with new ones in preparation for weekly recycling pickups.
(09/03/2024) Manteca Bulletin
Stocktonia reports on the Stockton Mobile Community Response Team, which is dispatched to mental and behavioral health incidents as an alternative or addition to police.
(09/02/2024) Stocktonia
A look at Gary Knackstedt who is running for reelection to the Lodi Unified School District Board of Education.
(08/31/2024) LodiNews
Garden Joy community garden is working with the Manteca Unified School District to help meet its goal of locally sourcing 20 percent of school meal produce by the next school year.
(08/30/2024) Manteca Bulletin
The City of Manteca community benefit agreements with three recently approved marijuana dispensaries aim to generate a minimum of $1 million for city coffers.
(08/30/2024) Manteca Bulletin
In their August 27 meeting, the Stockton City Council discussed how to adapt policies on homeless encampments following the US Supreme Court Grants Pass ruling.
(08/30/2024) Stocktonia
In an August 27 special meeting, the Tracy City Council finalized the response to the criticisms and findings of a civil grand jury report.
(08/30/2024) Tracy Press
In their August 20 meeting, the Tracy City Council voted to approve moving forward with development of a 38-home subdivision of a 5-acre site on Byron Road.
(08/30/2024) Tracy Press
In their August 27 meeting, the San Joaquin Board of Supervisors directed staff to explore a project to bring a medical school to the county, possibly to be located at the San Joaquin General Hospital campus in the French Camp.
(08/29/2024) LodiNews
A look at the training program for beginner farmers offered by the Center for Land-Based Learning in Woodland.
(08/29/2024) CapPublicRadio
In their August 27 meeting the Sacramento City Council approved an update to the police military equipment policy.
(08/28/2024) CapPublicRadio
The Measure Q November ballot measure to increase the City of Manteca sales tax by three-quarters of a cent gained support from the Manteca Chamber of Commerce.
(08/28/2024) Manteca Bulletin
With almost $15 million on hand, a look at current and future community park projects in the pipeline for the City of Manteca.
(08/28/2024) Manteca Bulletin
A look at the career of Susan Talamantes Eggman as she reaches the end of her last term as state senator from Stockton.
(08/28/2024) Stocktonia
With the addition of two new firefighter paramedics, Ripon Fis=re State #1 is fully staffed.
(08/27/2024) Manteca Bulletin
A look at the 2023 San Joaquin County agriculture report: $3.22 billion in production by 3,340 mostly small family-owned farms.
(08/27/2024) Manteca Bulletin
New Stanislaus State President Britt Rios-Ellis shared her views on the bright future of the Stockton satellite campus.
(08/27/2024) Stocktonia
Almost everyone in California has health insurance. That trend reflects about a decade and a half of policymaking designed to expand access to health care. The state’s average uninsured rate has dropped from nearly one in four Californians in 2009 to less than one in ten today.
(09/03/2024) CalMatters
CalFire received the first of five planes promised by the federal government, a former Coast Guard C-130 Hercules air tanker.
(09/02/2024) https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article291844345.html
California’s unemployment rate, 5.2% of its labor force in July, is no longer the nation’s highest after months of having that dubious distinction.
(09/02/2024) CalMatters
Unable to jam through bills he says will lower California gas prices, Gov. Newsom calls the Legislature back into session.
(08/31/2024) CalMatters
The Legislature is willing to guarantee $500 million annually to affordable housing developers, but with a caveat.
(08/30/2024) CalMatters
A large apartment complex in San Rafael’s majority-Latino Canal neighborhood. Latino families in Marin County are far more likely than white families to have trouble making ends meet, a new report finds.
(08/30/2024) CalMatters
Early warning systems save lives during disasters, but a recent FEMA survey found that only a third of people are signed up. Use this resource to find your county’s emergency alert sign-up page.
(08/29/2024) CalMatters
Some Democrats are pushing bills that could put their colleagues on the hot seat in an election year. The authors say they’re representing their constituents and there’s never a perfect time for votes.
(08/28/2024) CalMatters
California Highway Patrol officers received historically high raises in 2022 and 2023, but it continues to face a high vacancy rate of 16%.
(08/28/2024) CalMatters
Pharmacy benefit managers attempt to negotiate cost savings for insurers. California is considering new rules that would require them to pass their discounts on to consumers.
(08/27/2024) CalMatters
A trio of California Democratic lawmakers say they’re frustrated by high cost estimates that helped kill their health care legislation. Did the Newsom administration inflate the numbers to quietly kill the bills?
(08/26/2024) CalMatters
About 4 in 10 Californians are carrying medical debt. Lawmakers are advancing a bill that would prevent that debt from affecting credit scores.
(08/26/2024) CalMatters
