A group of young professionals is looking for a catchy new slogan to cast a more positive light on our fine burg. Here's one they probably won't pick: "Modesto: Where even your safe isn't safe." Scavengers recently managed to make off with a 6,000-pound steel, glass and concrete vault door frame from a demolition site in downtown Modesto.
A story in Monday's Bee explained how Salinas is using a military-style intelligence-gathering method to combat its gang violence problem. So you might wonder, with gang violence rampant in the Northern San Joaquin Valley as well, why not bring in the military to establish a similar program here?
Several years ago, reader Ken Moore of Ripon called suggesting that I do a column on Lost City.
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