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 [...]

Happy Halloween, Sacramento!Looks like it’s going to be a damp one. May the make-up run and the candy stay dry!  Answer to the best of your knowledge. Ghoul luck!
1. Before they joined the illustrious ranks of the city council, South Natomas neighbors Heather Fargo and Ray Truthaway successfully sued the city of Sacramento on behalf [...]

Updated 10/23/08 @ 10:40am.
When Eric Hogue asked me on his Capitol Hour radio show  last week if I thought the council could be salvaged, I was optimistic. I opined the council might have a chance with a quality leader.   Oops. I stand corrected. It’s going to be a long two years with this [...]

Shortly after I published Angelique Ashby’s smoldering letter to the Natomas community about the West Natomas fire,  District One Councilman Ray Tretheway sent his own email to the community, replete with canned sentimentality only Razor Sharp Ray could cook up on a moment’s notice.
I received Sunshine Ray’s letter via email this afternoon. In classic Tretheway [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Any euphoric politicians willing to go on record and say we Natomas residents should still feel “safe”? Broad daylight is evidently no longer a crime deterrent in this age of $5 per gallon gas (or milk). Add two more home invasion/armed robberies to the growing list of those taking place in what Mayor Heather Fargo [...]

How cold? Cold enough to burst into an Indiana bank in broad daylight, jump over the counter and shoot a five month pregnant bank teller in the stomach before she could even acknowledge his selfish demands. Both of her five month old fetal twins died the day after the shooting.
The ONLY good news to come [...]

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 [...]

JUST after we reported Sac is now worse than LA in terms of carbon footprint per capita, we now treat you to some good news! Kiplinger’s just released their list of top most livable cities, and they have awarded Sacramento, CA.. drum roll.. cmon.. have some fun…. the coveted eighth best livable city ribbon. WOW! [...]