I’m mystified (and disappointed) in Obama’s choice for VP. Put me on record as saying this decision may very spell the beginning of the end for Obama’s White House bid.

Joe Biden does not even want to be vice president!!

“There are a lot of people out there who want the job. I’m not one of them…  I wouldn’t say ‘no.’ I hope he doesn’t ask me.” Joe Biden a month or so ago when asked if he was interested in serving…

So apparently there was a surprise agenda item for a closed door city council meeting this evening. Evidently Queen Fargo decided a review of city Manager Ray Kerridge’s performance was in order. A “performance appraisal” they call it.  Eeeyoo don’t you HATE performance appraisals–especially when they don’t come with raises?

The Bee ran something about it today and in the article councilman and KJ supporter Robbie Waters grumbled, “I’m not aware of any problems with the city manager….I think he’s done…

A year ago the City of Sacramento passed two gun ordinances: One ordinance made it mandatory to report gun thefts within 48 hours; the other mandated logging and fingerprinting of anyone buying ammo in Sacramento city limits.Today the city is holding a ceremony at the police warehouse to–according to their press release–”trumpet the success” of the program.

Sacramento city councilman Kevin McCarty sponsored both “bills,” so it’s likely he will be playing lead trumpet this morning at the ceremony. I picture…

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I run a bit behind on this stuff (yes, I do have a family and a job!), so apologies if it’s old news. But Mayor Fargo and puppet Ray ‘TreeTheWay’ Tretheway recently grabbed another tree award at the 76th Annual Mayor’s conference. The award pulled in another $75,000 for the Sac Tree Foundation (Treetheway is its Director).…

Another day, another ‘kick in the teeth’ of Sacramento taxpayers. At this rate, we’re all going to need dentures pretty soon. Couple of things to cover here. Let’s start with Mayor Fargo’s number one priority: Trees.

Today the Sacramento City Council approved a $650,000 expenditure for “Urban Forest” rangers to COUNT TREES in the city (see the end of this article for a brochureware email from Sac Tree guru Ray Treetheway).

Countin’ trees ay? Hope they count them trees better than they counted…

If your kid ever asks you, “Mom/Dad, what does it mean when someone says you have ’sour grapes’?” you may want to show them a picture of Sacramento County Supervisor Roger Dickinson.

In fact, in light of his statements in a recent radio interview, Dickinson may have enough sour grapes to start his own winery–or is that “whinery”?

Shortly after the Sacramento City Council joined other cities in REJECTING a permutation of Dickinson’s anti-gang tax shenanigan,  he appeared on Ben Adler’s Capital…

Note: Please see the end of this article for Joe Sac’s first contest! Yes, there are prizes! Seriously!

From the City of Sacramento web site of Ray Tretheway:

“Welcome to my web page! It is an honor to serve as your Sacramento City Council representative for Alkali Flat, Downtown, Richards Boulevard, South Natomas, North Gate, and North Natomas. Ed note: Ironic that North Natomas is LAST? “..and North Natomas.” How utterly revealing.

“While serving on the Sacramento City Council I am concentrating…

Low income housing in North Natomas is finally the talk of the town — at least for a few minutes. Guess it pays to be a squeaky wheel after all.

Mary Lynne Velinga (I got it!) recently wrote a superb article that explored this hot potato in the Bee. In it were some dubious “official” quotes, followed by some outrageous reader comments. More dubious quotes recently showed up on independent blogs long after the article was published. I’d like to make a…

Time to stop and smell the flowers with Sunshine Ray Tretheway and his staff! Here we have included a few of our favorite quotes from two Tretheway letters that appeared on the Natomas Buzz (http://www.natomasbuzz.com) web site recently.

The first set of bites are from Tretheway himself in response to a resident’s status update on the North Natomas Financial Plan, in which the resident pleads with community members to come to city council meetings to convince the regal council that North…

I guess some clarification is in order. We’re moving from the Natomas area because it has not turned out to be the community we were led to believe it was going to be. Had we known how it would turn out, we would not have chosen to live here. We desired a really family oriented community, not a “paved over” (as the Bee called it) maze of stucco and concrete. We feel duped.

So, feeling duped, we now recognize Natomas is…