From an email press release I received via Rhonda Erwin: This photo is a picture of  Michael Barron who was shot and killed in Sacramento, California in 2009. After the death of her murdered son, Shirley Rhodes started the Mike B Foundation where she reaches out to at-risk youth.
The Mike B Foundation will join the [...]

Joe Sac Primary Election  Interview

A reader asked if they could ask me a series of questions back and forth on email and suggested I post the resulting interview. I agreed. Here is the result of our exchanges. This reader is not affiliated with any political parties or candidates running for office.
Q: Why do you [...]

Hi friends. A few aggressive suggestions for possible Ray “Sign Cop” Tretheway and challenger Angelique Ashby campaign slogans.
Possible Ashby Slogans:
“Vote Ashby: Because serving your community is about more than planting trees, building forts, and cutting ribbons.”
“Finish what you started Sacramento; vote Ashby in and vote the rest of Heather Fargo out!”
“He let one side of [...]

Not long ago I wrote a piece here poking fun at Kevin “Green Shades” Johnson’s new love affair with renewable energy (even though it was only a footnote in his campaign, and it was actually his adversary Fargo who was the real “green” fan all along).
First of all Sacramento is not going to be the–what [...]

Those of you whom have followed my blog long enough know I am very passionate about DUI enforcement on Sacramento’s roads. In this space, in public forums and via emails I have waged my own personal war against DUI by imploring officials to champion hardcore penalties for DUI’s (i.e. I believe minimum fine for first [...]

News today that our illustrious city council has approved a fire union proposal that will allow 60+ firefighters to keep their jobs for another year.  Bittersweet victory for the union, I’m sure, but a victory no less–especially for all those families that would have been affected by the cuts, not to mention the impact on [...]

So Sacramento is about to get serious about water consumption. The city paid consultants to help them devise a public awareness program that seeks to make residents a lot more responsible when it comes to water conservation.
Look, I’m all for it. I am constantly amazed by how wasteful residents are when it comes to watering [...]

During the 2008 mayoral campaign Mayor KJ promised countless citizens and journalists he was going to manage the city’s budget a lot better than the [deposed]  Queen Mayor Fargo had. When asked how he would do that, his response was always the same: A top down audit of the city’s finances to uncover government waste. [...]

Happy Easter, friends. I hope you all had a nice weekend. Ours was wonderful. We attended Saturday Easter vigil at the Cathedral. The service was long and people were required to stand for long periods of time. At one point a man fainted. Fell backward like a tree and slammed his head onto the hardwood floor. A woman screamed. Then, BANG! He was down. The Sac Fire Dept arrived and took him away with them.

Agenda item #18 for this coming Tuesday’s city council meeting is as follows:
Inclusionary Housing Workshop [To Be Delivered] (Updated on 2-6-09 at 9:35 a.m.)
Location: (Citywide)
Recommendation:Review results of economic analysis and neighborhood research. Provide direction on potential framework for changes to Mixed Income Housing (Inclusionary) Ordinance. Contact: Lisa Bates, Deputy Executive Director, (916) 440-1330, Cindy Cavanaugh, [...]