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Rehabilitation in California’s Prisons: Inmates Fill a Void

April 22, 2021 By Michael Baldwin Senior 8 Comments

Michael Baldwin NAACP

Michael Baldwin Senior is a Modesto Community Advocate and paralegal. This article is the first in a series on the challenges faced by current and former convicts in their quest to successfully reenter society. It’s written in collaboration with Tom Portwood.  I’m a former convict. I don’t consider the term a label but a source of strength. I am also blessed to be living in the Valley, working as a […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Michael Baldwin NAACP, Michael Baldwin Senior

The Supervisor’s Guide to Living Large by Avoiding Taxes

September 28, 2020 By Steve Ringhoff 3 Comments

Stanislaus County Supervisor Jim DeMartini

“I’ve had it with California. It’s the hostile business climate, the politics and high taxes,” said Stanislaus County Supervisor James R. DeMartini, explaining why he was moving to Nevada instead of running again for his board seat. If he was trying to sound like a victim, some aren’t buying it. Mr. DeMartini has been living large and will only live larger when he makes the move. Here what he has […]

Filed Under: Politics

Another OID Water Scheme Revealed

March 12, 2020 By Eric Caine 5 Comments

Oakdale Irrigation District Board of Directors

At least three of Oakdale Irrigation District’s (OID) directors seemed reluctant to pursue local water sales during their March 3 meeting. Though they had committed to develop a plan for delivering water to local buyers outside the district the last July, directors Herman Doornenbal, Brad DeBoer, and Tom Orvis seemed to be having second thoughts about following through on the program. When audience members reminded the board some had spent […]

Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: Oakdale Irrigation District water sales

OID: Still Gambling with Its Water Rights

March 6, 2020 By Eric Caine 5 Comments

Unsustainable Pumping Graphic

Last July, the Oakdale Irrigation District (OID) Board of Directors agreed to develop a five year plan to deliver water to farmers outside district boundaries but within its sphere of influence. Based on the board’s decision, several farmers who had petitioned for water began making good on their promises to provide infrastructure necessary for the deliveries. In some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent. Then, just last Tuesday, […]

Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: Linda Santos Oakdale Irrigation District, Oakdale Irrigation District water sales

Trinitas Partners Hires OID Water Attorney: Conflict?

October 30, 2019 By Eric Caine 4 Comments

OID March 20

In a move very likely to revive local controversies and bitter memories, Oakdale Irrigation District (OID) water attorney Tim O’Laughlin has been hired by Trinitas Partners to manage its huge Hawaiian farming operation in Maui, where it’s known as “Mahi Pono.” Now an entity with too many names and subsidiaries to list, Trinitas/Mahi Pono recently purchased 56,000 acres in Maui for $267 million from sugar cane growers Alexander & Baldwin. […]

Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: Oakdale Groundwater Association, Oakdale Irrigation District Fallowing Program, Oakdale Irrigation District water sales, Oakdale Irrigation water rates, Trinitas Partners Oakdale

Did Trinitas Leave OID Holding the Bag (Again)?

February 12, 2018 By Eric Caine 3 Comments

When the big-time investors from the Bay Area showed up in Oakdale saying they were ready to become farmers, the city swooned. Oakdale Irrigation District (OID) was entranced by their offer to build infrastructure for water deliveries and offered them bargain-basement water rates and a sweet annexation deal, even while it had previously denied many long-term farmers’ applications. When a few local farmers suggested Trinitas Partners was yet another “turn […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured Tagged With: Eastern Stanislaus County groundwater, Trinitas Almonds, Trinitas Partners Oakdale

Stench Rises over OID Recall

April 3, 2017 By Eric Caine 1 Comment

Over the last few years, the Oakdale Irrigation District (OID) has conducted a secret water sale, failed to re-district according to state law, sold water by abandoning its water rights, annexed out-of-the-region buyers into the district at bargain rates while rejecting offers from local farmers to pay more for OID water, lost a water sale because it failed to observe requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act, barred newly elected […]

Filed Under: Featured, Politics Tagged With: Linda Santos Oakdale Irrigation District, Linda Santos recall, Oakdale Irrigation District water sales

More Claims of Lies on OID Recall

March 26, 2017 By Eric Caine Leave a Comment

To hear Deanne Dalrymple tell it, Oakdale farmers Louis Brichetto and Bob Frobose are a couple of bullying “frauds” who are opposed to the attempted recall of Linda Santos from the Oakdale Irrigation District (OID) Board of Directors for purely personal reasons—Frobose because he’s Santos’ business partner and friend and Brichetto because he hopes Santos will help him obtain OID surface water for his out-of-district almond orchards. Dalrymple, an Oakdale […]

Filed Under: Featured, Politics Tagged With: Linda Santos recall, Oakdale Irrigation District recall

Jeff Denham’s Voter Avoidance Handbook

March 10, 2017 By Bruce Frohman 4 Comments

Bruce Frohman

Since the November election, Congressman Jeff Denham’s indifference to voters in his own district has become increasingly evident. When his political party was out of power and all that could be done was obstruct, Denham quietly served as a dead weight anchor, accomplishing nothing and stopping others from moving forward to solve problems. Now that Congressman Denham has his preferred president, he’s ducked any leadership role on the issues and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Politics Tagged With: Jeff Denham, Jeff Denham town hall

OID: How to Endanger a Species

January 21, 2017 By Eric Caine 1 Comment

To hear Oakdale Irrigation District (OID) management tell it, 3000 acres is a mere pittance. The acreage is what OID estimates would be fallowed in a program it calls the “On-Farm Conservation Program.” OID claims the area is so small and environmental impacts so low that there’s no need for an Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The program is currently part of a lawsuit by the Oakdale Groundwater Alliance. Attorneys for […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured

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