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A farm newspaper's future

Submitted by VOMStaff3 on Wed, 2011-11-30 12:55
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Dear Carmen,
I'm an editor at the Columbia Journalism Review; I wanted to call your attention to a package of stories we just published about the state of the media in Modesto, California. Here's the basic idea: San Francisco and the Silicon Valley area are hot spots for digital news experimentation, with dozens and dozens of news startups doing their best to explore this new terrain. But 100 miles east, in Modesto, it?s a different story. A city of 200,000 with one major newspaper, an unemployment rate of 17.3 percent, a sizable Latino population, and the second-highest rate of car thefts in the nation, Modesto is reaping few of the benefits of the news experimentation being done to the west. Will cities like Modesto be left out of the future of news?
How will their news ecologies evolve? What do the next fifty years hold for news and information in places like this? We asked six experts to speculate on the future of news in Modesto and places like it. The package can be found here: 
http://www.cjr.org/essay/what_about_modesto.php

Teen Fest 2011

Submitted by Emerson on Mon, 2011-07-25 05:26
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Voice of Modesto is offering two pairs of free tickets to Teen Fest 2011, presented by Modesto Sound.

The West Memphis Three

Submitted by Emerson on Wed, 2011-05-25 15:21
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By Eric Seres

Introduction:

The government of the United States claims that the judicial system will provide justice for all. The West Memphis Three, which is perhaps one of the most frightening cases in U.S. history, proves our justice system is flawed and does not always provide justice.

Voices Around Town

Submitted by Emerson on Mon, 2010-02-08 09:23
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Apparently Judge Hurl Johnson set tongues a wagging when he excused Modesto’s current Mayor Jim Ridenour from testifying in the Lydia Lopez vs.

Modesto Tea Party, What the Bee Didn't Show You

Submitted by Emerson on Tue, 2009-09-08 05:20
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The conservative wing of the Republican Party threw a tea party at noon on August 14, at 1010 10th St. in the Plaza. Attending, along with at least one out of town minister, were local DJ Dave Diamond,  George Petralakis (who is the political money dispenser and door man for the developers and Mike Zagaris),  and Joan Clendenin, Vice-Chair of the Republican party along with about 150 of their friends.
Although most of the exchanges between the two groups were spirited, I was dismayed by something I saw on the teabaggers side.

Bye Bye Birdie...hope you didn't miss it

Submitted by power to the pe... on Tue, 2009-08-11 05:26
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Quickie review--Bye, Bye Birdie...Yes Company's production was better than GREAT!!  Very large cast, or it seemed large, wonderful vocals, fine dancing, the young people are a delight to hear and watch.
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