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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘natomas unified school district’
Joe and fellow outraged Sacramento residents hit the streets of South Natomas.. and get an earful
By Joe • Oct 31st, 2008 |
Is there a relationship between low income housing and crime in Natomas? Speak for yourself!
By Joe • Aug 2nd, 2008 |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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What is up with the rising truancy rate in Natomas? And when will Fargo and Tretheway act?
By Joe • Jul 20th, 2008 |Updated: Make sure you read the comments below as some interesting points have been made by readers. Also, it seems truancy rates can mean different things by region, but I think we can all agree what they mean in Natomas given the well documented crime issues and delinquency problems.
If you visit Mayor Heather Fargo’s circa [...]
Read the rest of the story»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 [...]
