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Do You Have Stockpile Syndrome?

April 30, 2009
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I was at Walgreen’s yesterday when I overheard a man at the pharmacy counter asking for face masks. “This is our last box,” the pharmacist said. The man glanced around to see if anyone was looking. I swear he gave me the evil eye right before he snatched the box from the pharmacist’s hands and hid it in his basket. Despite reading that the masks may be pointless, I’d already looked for them. Out of a mild sense of self-respect, I had refrained from actually asking for them. Now, apparently, it was too late. If swine flu swept the...

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Wireless Amber Alerts/Sandra Cantu

April 10, 2009
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Sandra Cantu’s murder has tragically brought the plight of missing children into the spotlight once again. Although no Amber Alert was issued after Sandra’s disappearance, the Amber Alert is, in many cases, a very important part of the search for the child. The longer a child is missing, the less likely it is he or she will be found alive, and the very first hours after the child’s disappearance are the most important. You can sign up to receive Amber Alerts on your cell phone here. All you have to do is enter your phone number. You can also...

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Tragic End to Tracy Girl’s Disappearance

April 7, 2009
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update, via KCRA3: Police have not named any suspects in the case and Sgt. Tony Sheneman insisted Tuesday that Lawless “is not at the center of the investigation and never was.” He added that he was dismayed to hear media reports that the pastor was a main suspect. “He has been interviewed as have hundreds of people,” Sheneman said. “Everyone that we speak to could be considered a person of interest. We have no specific person that we are looking at at this time.” Eight-year-old Sandra Cantu’s body was found by farm workers draining an irrigation pond Monday morning...

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Pleasanton, Saturday

March 27, 2009
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I’ll be speaking Saturday, March 28, at Lynnewood Methodist Church in Pleasanton. This will be a fundraising event, sponsored by P.E.O. International. Towne Center Books will be on hand to sell copies of The Year of Fog and No One You Know, with part of the proceeds to benefit P.E.O. women’s scholarships. 1:00 – 3:00.

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Nutcracker Buck Sings Yahtzee

March 3, 2009
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Check out the latest in the land of Nutcracker Buck–”You and me and these five random cubes/Laughing off our asses while our lives go down the tubes.” Wade has this to say about the song: “The song is kind of a white trash love song and a prayer to the Yahtzee gods that a marriage be saved. And it has a komodo dragon in it.” Oh, it has me in it too. That’s right…I got a cameo! What, you might ask, inspired Nutcracker Buck to write a song about Yahtzee? The musician himself puts it thus: Yahtzee, though, is...

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