I gotta give it to Mayor Kevin Johnson: When he puts his mind to something, he barrels down the track like a runaway locomotive, plowing through everything and everyone in his way. That would explain his rise to the top of the professional sports ladder, as well as his success last night in getting five [...]

You gotta give it to him. Unlike countless politicians before him, Mayor Kevin Johnson has fulfilled his campaign promises. He  has done precisely what he said he was going to do; he has “put Sacramento on the map.”  In fact, after the latest national KJ headline grabber involving the Obama firing of the IG’s Gerald [...]

Ray is on fire with all his bright ideas!
Before the invention of the light bulb, illuminating the world after the sun went down was an arduous, hazardous task. It took a lot of candles, torches and/or oil lamps to even fully light a good-sized room, and more than a few people lit themselves afire, or [...]

The U.S. Attorney Gen. announced today it has reached a “settlement” with Sac Town Mayor Kevin Johnson [Ed: Our boy KJ sure does do a lot of settlin' don't he?]. The straight dope is this: If St. Hope pays back half the fed funding it received (a cool $450,000), the Fed will take Johnson’s name [...]

About a year ago (to the day even),  when Kizzy-to-the-Jizzy hinted he might run for Sack Town mayor, Heather Fargo’s fortune teller Richie Ross made an ominous forecast. Ross boldly declared Kevin Johnson would “make the worst decision of his life” (or something as equally foreboding), if he dared to pierce the Fargonian mayoral veil.
At [...]

At a time when the state unemployment rate is at 10%, businesses are closing down, the county is on the verge of bankruptcy, and– in what may very well be one of the most bird-brained ideas ever hatched at city hall–Sacramento’s homeless are headed to Cal Expo, the valley press corps are reporting the city [...]

Former-Sac-Bee-columnist-turned-gadfly-extraordinaire R.E. Graswich broke an interesting little story last night on KOVR13’s The Scoop. In the segment, Graswich exposed an internal mayoral “staff report” containing–what some might call–covert city charter amendment proposals. Not surprisingly, the proposals–if passed–would give the mayor more power over city council meetings and excuse him from being present under certain conditions.
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It’s official: after a month of SAGGING and wilting under the pressure of persistent opposition, Mayor Johnson’s strong mayor balloon has finally popped.
Citing the state’s decision not to hold a special election in June, and the cost-prohibitive price tag of a special city election (estimated to be a whopping $1.25 million), K-to-the-J declared his [...]

John Maxwell’s books on leadership are considered amongst some of the the best in circulation these days. One of the things that set John’s leadership ethos apart from his contemporaries is that he equates leadership with  servanthood; that is, he sees leadership as serving others, not being served by others.
On a high level, John maintains [...]

“Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. LEADERSHIP has to do with influencing and motivating people.” -John C Maxwell
Here are my SacBee.com comments in response to an article (http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/1532584.html) they posted today about the strong mayor referendum. Maybe this week I will just keep adding thoughts [...]