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Civility is the victor today as Sacramento Press bans offender, implements anti abuse policy

By M. Johnston • Jun 24th, 2010 | Bookmark and Share

Sacramento Press, you rock. THANK YOU for having the GUTS to stand up to hate  today when you rolled out a first-of-its-kind zero tolerance anti-abuse policy and christened it by banning one of the region’s worst offenders.

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21 Days of Tretheway: Campaign Conversations (Day 17)

By M. Johnston • May 22nd, 2010 | Bookmark and Share

This will be a daily feature all the way up to election day. It’s an exclusive BEHIND THE SCENES look at Ray Tretheway and his keystone cop crew of staffers as they desperately try to save his $55,000 year gravy income and the four full time jobs that support him.
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

[Ray [...]

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Facebook in real life – it is sooooo true!

By M. Johnston • May 15th, 2010 | Bookmark and Share
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Visit SacramentoPress.com for a great read!

By M. Johnston • Jan 22nd, 2010 | Bookmark and Share

Just thought I would make good on my promise to Casey Kirk of Sacramento Press. Casey emailed me and said she had removed a comment of mine from an article about how the economy had impacted local small businesses. I posted a comment stating we (small businesses) really need to help and

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Heidi Heidi Heidi Ho

By M. Johnston • Jan 21st, 2010 | Bookmark and Share

“I put every dollar I have into this. I’ve spent almost $2 million on this album. It cost as much or more than a Britney Spears album because I wanted it to be that quality. … The songs will make an impact in pop history.” -Heidi Montag prior to her “Superficial” album release (which has [...]

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Sac Bee’s coverage of church issues draw passionate opinions.. including mine

By M. Johnston • Dec 11th, 2009 | Bookmark and Share

The Bee has been covering Christianity more and more lately. My guess is that it has something to do with the economy. Surveys reflect a rise in church attendance since the recession started. Today they ran an article maintaining how “Some Sacramento-area faithful [are] turning [their] backs on pastors [because of] spiritual abuse.”  This on [...]

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Be careful what you wish for: The legend of Mayor Kevin Johnson

By M. Johnston • Jun 17th, 2009 | Bookmark and Share

You gotta give it to him. Unlike countless politicians before him, Mayor Kevin Johnson has fulfilled his campaign promises. He  has done precisely what he said he was going to do; he has “put Sacramento on the map.”  In fact, after the latest national KJ headline grabber involving the Obama firing of the IG’s Gerald [...]

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$1 hot dogs, fireworks and more this weekend at Raley Field.. and leave your Twitter at home

By M. Johnston • May 12th, 2009 | Bookmark and Share

Great weekend planned at Raley Field this weekend.  From the Cats’ email blast: ”
“This Saturday, the division-leading River Cats are offering special Family Pack deals (click here for tickets) to go along with the Sutter Health Fireworks after the game. Fans can purchase a Family Pack which includes Tickets, Hot Dogs, Cokes, Chips, Dessert and tickets [...]

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Readers furious after local newspaper shells U.S. military in “investigative report” on rogue soldiers

By M. Johnston • Jul 14th, 2008 | Bookmark and Share

Note: comments are closed on this topic because I am not going to allow anyone to post any garbage about our troops on my site.

Chuck D of Public Enemy is arguably the greatest rap artist of all time–at least in this observer’s opinion.  Throughout the 80’s and 90’s, the “Rebel without a pause” Chuck crafted [...]

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MonopoBee to eliminate 86 jobs

By M. Johnston • Jun 16th, 2008 | Bookmark and Share

The Sacramento Smear Bee has announced it will lay off 10% of its work force in an effort to cut costs. If you’ve been reading my blog since its inception you may recall an article I posted about three weeks ago titled “Is the Sacramento Bee engineering controversy to sell newspapers? Duh.”
OK, I am not [...]

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