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• Invocation 'should be discussed in the open'

• Lodi City Council delays decision on eight proposed layoffs

• Hoping to raise $250,000

• Local wineries take top honors at global wine show

• Abram Wilson to run again for Assembly

February 8th, 2010

• Public Meetings

• Locals pick best, most memorable Super Bowl commercials

• Regional Roundup

February 6th, 2010

• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch

• Meet Larry, Curly and Moe

• Baboon business

• Regional Roundup

• Several Lodi venues let you watch the Super Bowl in style

• Lodi Library celebrates 100 years of serving the community

• Culinary craft

February 5th, 2010

• Kids, teachers help Haiti by collecting pennies for Learning Link

• Lodi, Galt students reach out to help Haiti earthquake survivors

• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam

• Hours of sweat and work go into putting on crab feeds

• Things looking up for state's real estate

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Stray bullet strikes Lodi home; police suspect gang activity may be factor

February 4th, 2010

• Managers at Geweke Toyota answer questions about recall

• Lodi City Council votes to replace play structure at Century Park

• Lodi extends ban on pot shops for another year

• Mokelumne River triathlon set for June

• Family, friends to run half-marathon in memory of Galt family

February 3rd, 2010

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Delta College trustees again collide over stipend committee

• Lodi-area senators Dave Cox, Lois Wolk admit to gifts; Tom Berryhill case pending

• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts

• Galt City Council avoids budget cuts — for now

• New Lodi Memorial Hospital emergency room opens to the public without a hitch

• Bad bugs, weeds are hot topics at Grape Day

February 2nd, 2010

• Big rig plows 7 cars

• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future

• Former Lodian Erica Davis is first paraplegic woman to summit Kilimanjaro

• Jumpers across California

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• No snow leopards, otters for Micke Grove

• McNerney leads in campaign cash

• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen

February 1st, 2010

• Find cuddly alpacas not too far from Lodi

• Public Meetings

• Patients can expect faster, better service when Lodi Memorial Hospital's new emergency room opens

• Man killed by Amtrak train in Lodi

The following stories have received the most reader comments during the last 7 days.

• Will terrorists be given Miranda warnings? (75)
• President Obama's first year (67)
• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts (64)
• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future (60)
• Islamic symbol in mosaic — what is all the fuss? (49)
• Many reject the politics of 'no' (45)
• Writer comments on Neely column (42)
• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch (41)
• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen (31)
• Time to shed the convenient sham of 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy (31)

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Feels Medi-Cal services shouldn't be cut

This is an open letter to Alyson Huber. As you can see, your constituents voted to show how angry they are with our current legislation (which includes yourself), and the current hole that you guys continue to dig yourselves into in Sacramento.

These are the same constituents that voted you into office back in November 2008, the same ones that voted in confidence, hoping you would keep your promises and demand change to how politics work in Sacramento. But, just recently in your townhall meeting at Lodi High School, you seemed lax and rather hesitant about changing our state's constitution, something that could be a plausible move in order to help fix California's budget.

I feel that I have made yet another terrible mistake when I headed to the polls on voting day, and that mistake was allowing you a chance to head to Sacramento. My first mistake was Mr. Schwarzenegger and allowing him to be governor. I will have to pay additional medical expenses because California cannot balance a checkbook properly.

You see, I'm not one of those lazy slackers who do nothing but sit on their butts all day and collect SSI and Medi-Cal. I am one of the people who needs it. I have a rare chromosome disorder called Chromosome 18 Ring, which is currently being heavily studied in Texas because not much is known about it. Because I have no idea what could happen to my body in the near or even long-term future, I need every service that Medi-Cal currently covers, which includes audiology podiatry, incontinence, optometry and dental services.

Allowing to cut these critical services that Medi-Cal offers, you have placed blood on your own hands. If you want know how many people with disabilities are going to be affected by the decision-making you made in Sacramento, call up the Valley Mountain Regional Center and other centers in California to get statistics on how many people with disabilities there are.

Kenneth Huntley
Lodi