9 February 2012, 6:04 am
Tuesday's two-hour public forum and short meeting of the Merced City School District Board of Education were relatively low-key affairs, the participants say, but discussions in the next few weeks of how to erase a $9 million budget deficit may be more lengthy, spirited -- or troubled.... Read More »
7 February 2012, 7:03 am
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today named twelve individuals to serve on four governing boards responsible for dissolving local redevelopment agencies in cities and counties where local agencies elected not to manage the task.... Read More »
6 February 2012, 3:01 am
The Greek sage Aesop once opined, "Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either." For the past seven years, Eric Dumars has built a career in the Merced County public defender's office, carefully scrutinizing the flip side of every file that lands on... Read More »
6 February 2012, 3:01 am
That's how Tim O'Neill, founder of Image Masters, describes the gradual growth of his promotional products company.... Read More »
6 February 2012, 3:01 am
A series of study sessions began this week as Merced City School District board members, administrators, teachers and employee groups ponder how to deal with what may be a $9 million budget deficit for the next fiscal year.... Read More »
3 February 2012, 3:42 pm
Eating our seed corn. Shooting ourselves in the foot. Cutting off our nose to spite our face.Pick your cliché for self-harm. Then apply it to the news that the Merced County Association of Governments, after 18 years, is closing the Merced Economic Development Corp."The decision to close it dow... Read More »
3 February 2012, 10:28 am
After ranking No. 1 last year, Forbes magazine has moved Stockton to No. 11 on its "America's Most Miserable Cities" list released Thursday.... Read More »
2 February 2012, 1:01 am
Despite January's storms and a bit of snow overnight, Wednesday's state Department of Water Resources snow survey showed there is still not a lot of water trapped in Sierra snow.... Read More »
31 January 2012, 7:34 pm
A man has been arrested after Merced Police say he drove a stolen truck through a park and crashed into a fence at a police station.... Read More »
31 January 2012, 2:01 am
A mistrial was declared last week in the case of a 20-year-old man accused of a shooting on a North Merced bike path that injured one man.... Read More »
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