The Riverside Motorsports Park folks say they're still committed to the racetrack near Atwater but by all indications they might pull out of the project.
Eighteen days into the new fiscal year, the state has no budget and there's no agreement in sight. It's no wonder that Californians, many struggling with their own financial woes, are frustrated with their legislators.
Editor: The billing of residential customers of the Merced Irrigation District by Pacific Gas & Electric for Municipal Departing Load Charges has begun.
Summer is the season for sporting diversions, and the state's educational researchers are caught up in the fever.
Dear Congressman Cardoza:
Editor: After reading Stuart Rawling's letter of July 11, I would also like to add some of my additional concerns regarding the City Council and its decisions.
Editor: Is it just this subscriber, or are there other Sun-Star readers having a hard time making out all the words in the Argyle Sweater comic?
Following the driest spring in recorded history, California faces a water challenge of epic dimensions.
Editor: Regarding the current push by the Republicans to open up drilling off our coast and ANWR, part of President Bush's response at his news conference Tuesday was as follows: "I readily concede that it's not going to produce two barrels of oil tomorrow, but it's going to change the psychology that demand will constantly outstrip supply."
Editor: In regards to the statements of Marc Medefind in a letter to the editor in Monday's Sun-Star, I just want to say that I do not understand.
Last-minute haggling over details threatens to make passage of the high-speed rail bond in November even more of an uphill struggle.
Editor: I am disappointed in the treatment received by Merced County's officials from your newspaper. The way you reported the county administrator's large increase in salary and in the same passage commented that the reason given was because the county was anticipating hard times financially just doesn't equate. There must be more to it than that.
Editor: PG&E's recent outline of how they plan to steal from 5,500 Merced residents arrived in my mailbox recently.
Valley drivers would pay a little more to operate their vehicles if a bill now in the Legislature is passed and signed. That's a bitter pill to swallow in a time when gasoline costs $4.50 a gallon and is headed higher. But it's a necessary expense if we are to address the Valley's poor air quality.
Editor: It is a known fact as what determines prices on commodities: Supply and demand.
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