The following places are OPEN for Memorial Day 1) Retail Chain Stores 2) Most local businesses (call to make sure) 3) Supermarkets 4) Bars and Nightclubs 5) Garbage companies (call if offices are open) 6) Most public transport such as the MAX The following places are CLOSED for Memorial Day 1) Libraries 2) Banks 3) [...]
British petroleum (BP) announced today that their plan to stop the oil leak on the bottom of the seafloor was a complete failure. Their efforts capped off a 72 hour period where crews and the general public awaited anxiously to hear about the results. BP decided to call off the “top kill” method because no [...]
Below are the facts: Projected Complete Date = 2006 Actual Complete Date = 2010 Projected Cost = $66 million Actual Price = $142 million Population = Mainly students from northwest Modesto and Salida districts. Mistakes 1) Location, location, location. The area that they bought the land from is not the ideal place to be building [...]
Turlock High and Fresno State alum, Tom Brandstater may find himself at the short end of an NFL career. At the start of OTA’s, Brandstater was listed as the 3rd quarterback on the Denver Bronco’s depth chart. However, this changed when Tim Tebow, the highly touted rookie from University of Florida, overtook Brandstater for the [...]
Meg Whitman, the former CEO of Ebay, visited Modesto, CA on Thursday and gave a speech to a group of mostly farmers and residents at a John Deere dealership. Whitman preached her stances on various issues that are plaguing the California economy. However, she focused mainly on jobs. She promises to do everything that she [...]
After Friday’s Giro Italia Stage19 race, Ivan Basso of Liquigas can now proclaim that his performance was due to his sheer dedication to the sport of cycling. After being banned from the sport for nearly two years, Basso is finally living up to his cycling abilities. His hard work paid off dividends when he overtook [...]
The stock market is tanking, the Gulf of Mexico is becoming an economic disaster every second and the job market is not so good as well. However, this does not stop many students from registering for Human Sexualities class in droves. The most popular class where you must attend class at MJC is English 101, [...]
One week it was open, the next week, it was closed. The 2nd Modesto Farmer’s Market in Downtown Modesto, also known as the Gallo Center Farmers Market, will be closed until June 05, 2010. The closure was due to permits and approvals problems that should be resolved with the City of Modesto within a few [...]
Competition is everywhere in the job market these days. And that is not good for many local Modesto residents. With unemployment hovering around 20%, it just goes to show you, what perilous times we are living right now. The latest numbers shows what many think the unemployment rates are, however, in reality, this number is [...]
Many local businesses are suffering from the recession of 2010. Many businesses are on the verge of bankruptcy or are working with ultra thin profit margins that can make or break their business on any given day. This is why we came up with four ways that any Modesto business owners can do now to [...]
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