On Tuesday, Stockton’s City Council admitted, tacitly at least, that a decade-long tax to fight crime with more cops has failed. Then they voted to renew the tax anyway. The Council voted 6-1, Council member Michele Padilla dissenting, to extend Measure A, a ¾-cent sales tax, for another decade because there’s a new strategy to beef up […]

Author Archives: Michael Fitzgerald
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Why “DoMo” has more mojo
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Deputies raid a reformer’s house
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The smearing of Harry Black
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A city devoid of vision
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Lights. Action. Alleged Homicide.
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Delta science vs. Delta betrayal
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Taming the toxic warehouse boom
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