Archives for the ‘Social Issues’ Category
Divisive and discordant: Mayor Heather Fargo a study in poor leadership practices
By Joe • Oct 18th, 2008 |“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 [...]
Sacramento Mayor Fargo and City Manager Rainman Kerridge defend Driving Miss Daisy scandal
By Joe • Sep 18th, 2008 |You didn’t think I was gone for good, did you? Hey, I have to work, too. My job is such that is fluctuates from semi-organized chaos to blissful tranquility (with nothing in between) and the past few weeks have been the former.
I recently got promoted, and with my promotion came a ton of new responsibilities. [...]
Fargo and Treetheway in attendance at Mayor’s Conference in Miami to pick up tree award
By Joe • Aug 11th, 2008 |WARNING: TURN DOWN YOUR COMPUTER SPEAKER VOLUME BEFORE YOU CLICK THE “READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE” LINK BELOW — YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.
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 [...]
Read the rest of the story»Walking on sunshine with Sacramento District 1 Councilman Sunny Ray Treetheway & the Sandheads
By Joe • Aug 1st, 2008 |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 [...]
Help them help US! Ten Sacramento community organizations that need all hands on deck
By Tracy • Jul 28th, 2008 |Instead of entertaining new taxes, entertain this idea: Much of the crime in Sacramento is being committed by juvenile delinquents who are not being nurtured and guided through the maturation process. What’s missing from the lives of most of these young people is simply an adult who will hold them accountable.
Hate to be the bearer [...]
Flip-flopping, street clueless Fargo is the last person Sacramentans should trust with more tax dollars
By Joe • Jul 23rd, 2008 |“Nearly one million—three in 10 California teens—are left unsupervised after school three or more days each week” (Opinion Research Poll, June, 2006)
A little over two years ago, law enforcement people from all over the place met with state legislators and pleaded with them to put key legislation in place “to ensure high–quality [prop. 49 after [...]
Read the rest of the story»Combatting truancy: One-size-fits-all districts and youth programs getting left behind along with kids
By Tracy • Jul 21st, 2008 |Ed note: Our first guest article.. and it’s a DANDY!
Thanks to Joe’s recent post, I’ve been mulling my former teaching career and the idea of what keeps kids in school anyway? I won’t rehash the statistics but essentially, Natomas Unified is failing to keep kids in school. Why is that and what can we do [...]
It’s Homecoming night in Natomas for Mayor Fargo, police, school officials and residents
By Joe • Jul 16th, 2008 |You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Hopefully Mayor Fargo’s meeting tonight at the Homecoming condoplex with Natomas residents will be more encouraging than the one shown here, videotaped by youths in nearby Kokomo Park and uploaded to youtube.com in the past year.
Along with Mayor Heather Fargo, representatives from the school [...]
New Yorker Magazine does an Imus and claims cover cartoon of Obama-Osama only harmless parody
By Joe • Jul 15th, 2008 |ROFL. Hahaha! Relax. Stop getting so defensive! It’s just a cartoon. It’s a joke, you idiot! So says liberal New Yorker magazine in response to outrage over its COVER cartoon portraying the Obamas as Al Qaeda sympathizers in the Oval Office, grinning and knucking it up, as the American flag burns in the fireplace behind [...]
Read the rest of the story»Readers furious after local newspaper shells U.S. military in “investigative report” on rogue soldiers
By Joe • Jul 14th, 2008 |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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