November will bring up much to vote on in Stanislaus County    (Modesto Bee)
1st council by district, advisory growth measure among items

Public input on PG&E land sought    (Stockton Record)
The fate of thousands of acres of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. land along the Mokelumne River will be the subject of a public information meeting

19 of 32 post-Prop. 13 budgets spent more than the state took in    (Modesto Bee)
"They really ran to be Santa Claus, and made a mistake and filed for the Assembly and the Senate," said Doerr, the senior tax consultant for the California Taxpayers Association.