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Town Crier: VAWA passage a human rights victory
In Southeast Asia, the term “vawa” means to applaud, to give commendation, to rejoice and celebrate. Ironically, the translation could not be more appropriate as the acronym we use for the Violence...
May 04, 2012 | 52 52 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tilted Windmills: Don’t waste energy on failed ideas
If your camel dies, it makes more sense to bury it than to carry it. In the same way, some folks get so attached to an object, an idea or an ideology, that they lug it no matter how much it has st...
Apr 26, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tilted Windmills: Rescue proves his worth in work and play
It has been an annual tradition since my dog befriended me to give an update on my canine companion. Watching the Westminster Kennel Club’s events makes me wonder about the dog’s real background....
Apr 20, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Town Crier: The profound power of touch
When I was a little girl, my mother would come up to my brothers and sister and me and place her nose behind our ears and, in her own version of baby talk, tell us how we smell so good. She would...
Apr 20, 2012 | 3 3 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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His Voice: Swim center needs collaboration, solid answers
The city can build needed aquatics amenities, but the public needs some real answers first.
Apr 06, 2012 | 14 14 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Living Green: A better plan than dumping chemicals
Have you heard the news? Someone is deliberately dumping paint into canals in Linden. The costs of clean-up: $60,000 of your tax dollars and rising. Though dumping is a frequent sight in our comm...
Mar 30, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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TILTED WINDMILLS: Good health starts with deprivation
by Mike McLellan / Submitted to the Tracy Press
Mar 23, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Long life takes more than good luck. But good luck helps. Did you get through the season without getting the flu? It was a world of medical land mines out there. Influenza was on everyone’s lips —...
YOUR VOICE: Thanks from across the ocean
by Hiroshi Inomata/consul general of Japan in San Francisco
Mar 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
EDITOR, On March 11, 2011, Japan was stuck by one of the most powerful earthquakes in modern history. The earthquake and accompanying tsunami claimed thousands of lives and, coupled with the nucle...
TOWN CRIER: Return to town casts Tracy’s decline in relief
by Brian Williams
Mar 16, 2012 | 14 14 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
On a dark and lonely night a little over a year ago, I drove off, leaving my life as I knew it and the town I had grown to love far behind. My life at the time had transitioned. Humbled by person...
TOWN CRIER: A more accurate reading of Kennedy’s religious address
by Mickey McGuire
Mar 09, 2012 | 7 7 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
On Sept. 12, 1960, John F. Kennedy gave a speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, a group of Protestant ministers. His purpose was to satisfy concerns of Protestants that, as preside...
Tilted Windmills: The typical technical difficulties
by Mike McClellan
Mar 02, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
Automated assistance is fine, but sometimes you just want to speak with a human
LIVING GREEN: Keystone sells a bad deal
by Christina Frankel
Feb 24, 2012 | 10 10 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
There is a hot political debate going on about the promise of jobs from the Keystone pipeline. It is the lure of jobs — any job — that has propelled a bad idea and turned it into a dangling carrot ...
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