@Stocktonopolis

Michael Fitzgerald, award-winning newspaper columnist, retired and resurrected at https://xitter.cf/t.co/L2uAwkf4mr.

 Stockton, California
Joined June 2009
  • Tweets4.3K
  • Following580
  • Followers3K
Mel Corren, half of The Brothers furniture/design business, Stocktonian of the Year 2017, promoter of civic pride and a vision for #Stockton's waterfront, and an all-round lovely human being, died peacefully in his sleep last night. He was 102. bit.ly/3WJQ83m

Mel Corren turns 100 - Stocktonia News

Mel Corren, a lifelong Stocktonian, World War II vet, and an activist who for decades has campaigned for Stocktonians to snap out of it and revive

stocktonia.org
1
53
Voters have seen this shady campaign for #Stockton City Council before. Will they be fooled again? bit.ly/3RvBI4s

Mike Fitzgerald: The strangely familiar 'ghost' campaign of Jessica Toccoli - Stocktonia News

If Stockton’s political campaigns of 2024 were a bad movie, this year’s City Council race is a sequel: “Ghost Candidate II: Jessica Toccoli.”

stocktonia.org
1
102
End of the year column: #Why Stockton's Council squabbled through 2025. It wasn't just "big personalities." bit.ly/4q8eAWe
120
By my reckoning, costs of #Stockton's long-delayed new City Hall have quadrupled. What went wrong? What needs to change? bit.ly/4phne4y

Mike Fitzgerald: Cost overruns for New City hall show a need for change - Stocktonia News

After eight years of multimillion-dollar cost overruns on the City Hall relocation project, the city needs a new way to oversee capital projects.

stocktonia.org
1
2
358
Boom. #Stockton
5
14
1,396
Column: The prosecution of AngelAnn Flores destroyed a key witness in #Stockton Unified's $7 million air filter scam and other dirty deals. Maybe it was just a coincidence. bit.ly/46nQiAw
2
1
5
426
Delta levees are “at growing risk of rupturing, which would endanger half a million people, mostly in #Stockton…” #cawater apple.news/A6pZbzYLZR_Gq4ut9…

Miles of Delta Levees Are at Risk of Floods. Repairs Could Cost $3 billion

The Delta faces a funding crisis to repair and maintain an aging network of 1,100 miles of levees. These earthen berms, mostly on private land, could rupture and endanger half a million people and...

apple.news
1
5
246
Federal government restores funding for fish that Trump loves to loathe - San Francisco Chronicle #Stockton #cawater apple.news/AwkMMq--mQZiw4IOT…

Federal government restores funding for fish that Trump loves to loathe

The federal government has restored funding for a captive breeding program designed to ensure survival of California’s delta smelt, even as President Donald Trump has sharpened criticism of the...

apple.news
3
179
Column: Authorities are heaping an unusual amount of secrecy on the prosecution of whistleblower/accused fraudster AngelAnn Flores. Shouldn't the trial of a public official be public? #Stockton bit.ly/4jAXjBY

Michael Fitzgerald: Too much secrecy in corruption case - Stocktonia News

Sealed warrants, closed-door grand jury proceedings: the public can’t tell what’s really going on.

stocktonia.org
2
6
347
Second biggest lie by @BayAreaCouncil is that the Delta tunnel will solve their housing crisis. The Bay Area has failed to build affordable housing for decades. @valleywater @GavinNewsom @CA_DWR
1
6
332
Right out of the gate, #Stockton's new Council makes a dumb mistake. bit.ly/4gO9DNz

Stockton City Manager Black resigns under threat of firing by council - Stocktonia News

The City Council unanimously approved Harry Black’s resignation following a special closed session meeting Thursday evening that lasted nearly three hours.

stocktonia.org
4
328
Column: For too long, #Stockton has neglected to make its waterways the public treasures they could be. In the case of Mormon Slough, that's finally changing. bit.ly/4h4NPgi #cawater
1
7
14
611
Column: There's a dire threat to the Delta, one more immediate than the Delta Tunnel. Hint: it has orange teeth. bit.ly/4gB6lNj #Stockton #cawater

Michael Fitzgerald: Worst. Invasive. Species. Ever.  - Stocktonia News

There’s news from the front lines of the battle against the nutria, the weird invasive “giant swamp rat” that threatens to overrun and destroy the Delta: We’re losing. 

stocktonia.org
1
1
3
417
We people of #Stockton kvetch a lot. But, hey, the city did some pretty good things in 2024. Let's review. bit.ly/4gT8eoj
3
6
294
2024 in review: Stockton needed investigators to take down the grifters who likely ripped off Stockton Unified and may be moving in on City Hall. It didn't happen. bit.ly/3Dolral
2
3
7
275
Why many San Joaquin Valley Latinos voted for Trump despite (or because of) his threat of mass deportation. @nytimes #Stockton bit.ly/4fUlkS8
250
A column about #Stockton's election '24, and whether something is amiss with our voting system. Also the impact of mass deportations on SJC and a couple guys who should walk the plank. bit.ly/3YJqsRU

Mike Fitzgerald: Items on Democracy, Deportation, and Davy Jones locker - Stocktonia News

A Council member censured; the Achilles heel in Stockton's voting system; the impact of mass deportations; and does a cash-strapped city really have to foot the bill for ships that sink outside its...

stocktonia.org
2
2
423
Column: Council candidate Jason Lee says he's "the most transparent of all the candidates." We put it to the test. bit.ly/48AXp7w

Mike Fitzgerald: District 6 candidate Jason Lee brings big successes, unanswered questions -...

Column: Jason Lee may be a city council candidate unlike any other in Stockton's history. But when Stocktonia's Mike Fitzgerald sent Lee a list of questions about his candidacy, here's how he...

stocktonia.org
1
2
270
The shadiest campaign in town is being run by #Stockton City Council D2 candidate Mariela Ponce. She's a ghost candidate using dark money and she's a threat to transparent government. bit.ly/3YLg1yF
4
7
467
Thoughtful piece about warehouses in @nytimes and how they diminish workers' political power. Relevant to #Stockton. bit.ly/3YAFr1P

Opinion | We Don’t Yet Understand What Warehouse Work Is Doing to Communities (Published 2024)

Warehouses in Lehigh Valley, Pa. have been an economic boon for blue collar workers. But they have been a political bust.

nytimes.com
2
207
Load more