That’s right, Sac Business Journal reports this week Sacramento has been named the 3rd most popular city in AMERICA for plastic surgery! San Francisco took the #1 spot. Los Angeles was a distant #48!  Plastic surgeon guru Dr. Debra Johnson told Sacramento Business Journal, top procedures among women in Greater Sacramento include “liposuction, breast augmentation and mommy makeovers.” Top procedures for men are eyelid lifts and lipo. Despite the economic downturn, the doc says business at Sacramento Surgery Center is robust.

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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 Bel Air Shopping Center, and everywhere in between… including the South Natomas Community Center, where efforts are well underway to build the $1,000,000+ play structure…

I’m pleased to announce a new nickname for oft maligned Sacramento City Councilman, Ray Tretheway: Slim Shady! And man has he earned it. Will the real shady ray ray please stand up, please stand up, please stand up… looks like he finally has…

Natomas residents are hissing mad over Tretheway’s spur-of-the-election-moment proposal to bring a much needed fire station to West Natomas residents at the expense of over $60 million in already-signed, sealed and delivered infrastructural projects (including the fabled North…

I received my absentee ballot today. These days I get pretty excited when I see that envelope in the mail. Admittedly, earlier in my adult life I wasn’t too interested in politics. I was too busy doing other things. I guess I never had a reason to care. After all, it was easy to buy a house back then, and groceries and gas were inexpensive. Life was relatively simple in the relatively small Sac Town.

That’s not the case any longer.…

Another day, another ‘kick in the teeth’ of Sacramento taxpayers. At this rate, we’re all going to need dentures pretty soon. Couple of things to cover here. Let’s start with Mayor Fargo’s number one priority: Trees.

Today the Sacramento City Council approved a $650,000 expenditure for “Urban Forest” rangers to COUNT TREES in the city (see the end of this article for a brochureware email from Sac Tree guru Ray Treetheway).

Countin’ trees ay? Hope they count them trees better than they counted…

If your kid ever asks you, “Mom/Dad, what does it mean when someone says you have ’sour grapes’?” you may want to show them a picture of Sacramento County Supervisor Roger Dickinson.

In fact, in light of his statements in a recent radio interview, Dickinson may have enough sour grapes to start his own winery–or is that “whinery”?

Shortly after the Sacramento City Council joined other cities in REJECTING a permutation of Dickinson’s anti-gang tax shenanigan,  he appeared on Ben Adler’s Capital…

Note: Please see the end of this article for Joe Sac’s first contest! Yes, there are prizes! Seriously!

From the City of Sacramento web site of Ray Tretheway:

“Welcome to my web page! It is an honor to serve as your Sacramento City Council representative for Alkali Flat, Downtown, Richards Boulevard, South Natomas, North Gate, and North Natomas. Ed note: Ironic that North Natomas is LAST? “..and North Natomas.” How utterly revealing.

“While serving on the Sacramento City Council I am concentrating…

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, followed by some outrageous reader comments. More dubious quotes recently showed up on independent blogs long after the article was published. I’d like to make a…

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 the North Natomas Financial Plan, in which the resident pleads with community members to come to city council meetings to convince the regal council that North…

Remember the names of these five bandits the next time you go to the polling place: “Heather Fargo, “Sunshine” Ray Tretheway, Rob Fong, Kevin McCarty and Bonnie Pannell.”

These are your city council members who voted YES to a city wide “gang tax” fantasy that seeks to penalize the working class to plug GAPING budget holes the city government themselves created.

Earlier tonight, newly converted, born again crime-fighting superhero Heather “Mrs. Incredible” Fargo somehow got four city council members to go along with…