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An opinionated roundup of issues behind some recent headlines: → Read More
Four-and-a-half years ago, as a Modesto Bee reporter working a New Year’s Day shift, I covered the sad aftermath of a fire that destroyed a two-story home in east Modesto, displacing a couple and their three young children. They smelled smoke, went outside and found their wood-shake roof on fire at 12:51 a.m., and their home soon went up in flames. All the neighbors I spoke with said the sky had… → Read More
The Modesto Bee has openings for visiting editors, who help form the newspaper’s editorial opinion. That includes political endorsements for important races coming up in the March Primary. → Read More
A roundup of positives and negatives from recent news in the Modesto region, with a focus on children and the elderly. → Read More
Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor | Sunday, June 9, 2019: Homeless man dismayed by Modesto emergency shelter Doug Holcomb, Operations Manager at the Modesto Outdoor Emergency Shelter talks Monday about the creative measures the county is taking to accommodate more residents at the camp that is nearly full. By Homeless man reflects on tent city The lack of any real effort to deal with… → Read More
Editor’s note: Modesto’s Joe Swain is in France preparing for Thursday’s 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Normandy landings that eventually liberated Europe during World War II. See Friday’s paper and modbee.com for his subsequent report on the main ceremony. → Read More
Sure, California’s Modesto Irrigation District deserves credit for keeping electricity prices stable. But the board must correct unfair prices charged to 13,000 stores and offices. → Read More
Editorial: The bottom line — money — promised by a big outside company is not more important than keeping local disabled people busy at a meaningful job. → Read More
Whether a cell phone tower is responsible for a cancer cluster in Ripon is debatable. What’s not is the emotional toll it’s taking on students’ families. → Read More
Garth Stapley, the Modesto Bee’s new Opinions Editor, offers what will be his approach in his new position. He says he’ll sway both to the left and right, but be mostly informative, engaging and pointed. → Read More
Terry Withrow, chairman of the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors, gave his state of the county address in Modesto, CA. He stressed relationships and cooperation. Nice words. Now, let’s see more action. → Read More
Peter Stavrianoudakis, a Modesto defense attorney and falconer, brings a lawsuit to prevent state and federal wildlife officials from entering his home unannounced just because he owns a bird of prey. → Read More
Governor Gavin Newsom seemed to frown on high-speed rail in Tuesday’s State of the State address. But his commitment to a terminus in Merced actually is good news for Valley commuters heading to Bay Area jobs. → Read More
Nathan Damigo of Oakdale, CA, who helped organize a deadly white supremacy rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, should not escape financial responsibility to those injured, says a new lawsuit in Modesto. → Read More
One brother, Steven Stayner, saves a little boy snatched by the same child molester who had kidnapped him seven years earlier. But Stayner’s brother, Cary, brutally murders four women in Yosemite National Park. → Read More
A new alliance on the Modesto Irrigation District board could be forming to transfer local water elsewhere, some in the audience charged in the heat of a verbal battle. → Read More
To Modesto CA’s Amira Muhammad, a TSA security screener at the Stockton airport, the government shutdown is more than a far-away political argument. Working without pay means choosing between groceries and gas. → Read More
Stanislaus County’s last two accused cop killers both have used mental competency questions to delay prosecution. → Read More
“It’s been a wild first day,” newly sworn-in House member Josh Harder said as the representative from Turlock, Ca., promises to keep lines of communication open with his constituents in the valley. → Read More
Just sworn-in, Rep. Josh Harder, D-Turlock, takes a break from congressional action on the government shutdown to briefly reflect on his first day on the job in the House of Representatives. → Read More