Updated 11:14pm - Oct 31. ‘08
I had today off. I ended up working anyways. I headed over the freeway to South Natomas with three South Natomas residents, including District 1 city council hopeful John Dahilig. We spent a good three hours video-interviewing anyone who would talk to us, from the Natomas High area to the [...]

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, [...]

In the movie Heathers, about an evil clique of three high school girls named Heather, one angry student famously asks the lead Heather: “What is your damage, Heather?!”
I remember wondering the same thing as I watched the movie for the first time. Out on the front porch, the Heathers seemed so docile, sweet and [...]

Is the champagne premature?
Despite being 3 percentage points shy of a clean victory, and apparently unfazed by statistical facts stating he would need an odds- defying—but theoretically possible—64% of the uncounted vote to win the Larry O’Brien award of Sac politics, Kevin Johnson all but declared himself the victor of Sacramento’s 2008 mayoral election yesterday.

Feeling visual today. Here’s something to ponder, especially for those wearing rose-tinted contacts. I thought it would be interesting to take a city like San Jose and compare crime rates with safe ol’ Sacramento.
I created the accompanying chart using the FBI’s crime stats for California. It’s important to keep in mind that San Jose’s [...]

On Fox40 News at 10pm tonight, cameras followed Kevin Johnson down K Street earlier today, as he talked to business owners and residents about rampant crime plaguing K Street (a screaming ambulance raced by him during the shoot). Like most concerned citizens, Kevin is outraged by the city’s negligence. The best part of the [...]

Ed. A great open letter sent by a concerned Sacramento citizen to sewer rat Harry Ratz of the Local 447 unio, the wacky organization that has been using its members’ dues todeliver a brutal public flogging to Sacramento mayoral hopeful Kevin Johnson. This letter was also sent to absentee mayor Heather Fartgo, absentee Natomas Councilman [...]