Well, it’s time to move on to some other more pressing issues. I have thought a  great deal about the gay marriage issue, I have listened intently and impartially to both sides. I have come to a few general conclusions, and barring any substantive events, this will probably be the last I have to say [...]

The purpose of this article is to hypothesize what might happen if states are left to decide civil rights issues, and voters were allowed to determine laws based on their own moral or religious convictions. The premise is that the United States could become the “divided states.” It is written from an essay writer 120 [...]

I was not going to write anything further about this issue, but once again I couldn’t resist the temptation to stoke the dialog with some additional points around voter privacy issues, unfair stereotypes about Christianity, leveraging civil rights rhetoric, marketing basics, and all kinds of other stuff.
For better or worse, media seems to have devoted [...]

Yesterday the US Attorney’s office announced its investigation of St Hope had failed to yield enough evidence to warrant filing criminal charges against the organization’s then-CEO Kevin Johnson.  When the DA was asked why they waited until two days after the election to share the news, they said they didn’t want to “influence the outcome. [...]

Can I get an amen!? Town hall party in Cesar Chavez park!
I am so excited about what has happened in Sacramento and across America today!
Count me amongst the masses who welcome major change to both city and country.
We’ve got the same problem at the local and national level: Screwed up priorities!
Locally, a small delegate of [...]

In my estimation the real victors tonight were the voters, thanks to the superlative work of debate moderators, Edie Lambert and Gulstan Dart–especially Edie. I was already a fan, but I have even more respect for her after this debate. Edie posed explicit questions to Johnson, and then pressed him to elaborate on his answers, [...]

Winding down a long, long week of all work and no play–which I hope is not making Joe a dull boy..
Fargo claims Johnson’s plan for Sacramento is a fake
Camp KJ began mailing his “40 point plan for Sacramento” out to voters today.  When sitting mayor Heather Fargo was asked about it, she dismissed the plan [...]

Updated 10/23/08 @ 10:40am.
When Eric Hogue asked me on his Capitol Hour radio show  last week if I thought the council could be salvaged, I was optimistic. I opined the council might have a chance with a quality leader.   Oops. I stand corrected. It’s going to be a long two years with this [...]

Violent felons, repeat felons, and criminals everywhere: Are you looking for work? Come on down to Sac Town! The door’s wide open!

Economy got you down? Do you have a hardcore drug habit you need to support!?? Are you a dyed-in-the-wool career criminal who is dying to assault and rob innocent, hardworking taxpayers??  Well doggone it [...]

“Mayor Heather Fargo called the [police] cuts [announced by Chief Rick Braziel] ‘outrageous’ and ‘unacceptable’ .. She said there were other things the department should consider cutting, like white collar crime investigations and ‘officers out on New Year’s chatting with each other’..”
There she goes, there she goes again.. ripping her colleagues and employees for the [...]