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Who was Robert A. "Bobby" Lewis?

 
Merced County Director of Planning and Development Services, Robert A. “Bobby” Lewis, reportedly tendered his resignation on Friday. Numerous calls to different county offices to confirm the report met a stone wall.
Nevertheless, other sources convinced members of the Badlands Journal editorial board that the report was true.
 
The board issued a statement along with an article written when Lewis arrived nearly four years ago.
 
“He came under a cloud, worked under a cloud, left under a cloud.” – Badlands Journal editorial board

On the announcement of departure of UC Merced's second chancellor

A member of the Badlands Journal editorial board was asked by a UC Merced student for a meeting so that he could learn more about the campus where he is going to college. The request was received the day Chancellor Steve Kang announced he would depart the campus at the end of the next academic year.
 

An un-stimulating editorial

Here is a typical example of the Great Valley Whine: the Fresno Bee is tearful that we didn't get as great an increase in federal spending in recent years as San Francisco, home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, did, and our Medicare reimbursement rates "barely cover costs." You can hear McClatchy's finest stamping their penny loafers.

"Narratives" Week #4: Politics among the local cannibals

Berryhill throws out a real bum
The congressional campaign of Ceres Republican Mike Berryhill, running against Rep. Dennis Cardoza, Pimlico Kid-Annapolis, is not a thing of beauty. In a year when voters are so frustrated -- especially in Cardoza's congressional district, wracked with some of the worst foreclosure and unemployment rates in the nation and housing prices that still cannot find a bottom -- all they want to do is throw the bums out, at least Berryhill threw one bum out, John D. Villarreal, his campaign manager for a couple of weeks.

"Narratives" Week #3: UC Merced professor's derry-derry dada rewrite of the Thirties in the Valley

 

Readers of the McClatchy Co.s Modesto chain outlet were greeting Sunday morning with a glowing review of a silly PhD dissertation republished as one of those highly perishable books academics must publish to keep drawing their state pay.

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