Violent felons, repeat felons, and criminals everywhere: Are you looking for work? Come on down to Sac Town! The door’s wide open!

Economy got you down? Do you have a hardcore drug habit you need to support!?? Are you a dyed-in-the-wool career criminal who is dying to assault and rob innocent, hardworking taxpayers??  Well doggone it grab your bats, and guns, and knives, and lock picks, and slim jims, and COME TO SACRAMENTO, y’all!! Hey and don’t forget to BYOA (bring your…

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…

The good news is that Sacramento has a new public safety watchdog in Lt Marcos Breton. The bad news is that he’s barking up the wrong political tree and doing the same thing all the other business-as-usual dinosaurs in this town do: Gang up on and condemn those who oppose their ideas.

In what must be one of the most disjointed, bass-ackwards opinion columns in the history of the Bee, the oft-maligned Breton has leveraged his Sunday column space to urge Bee…

Note: make sure you read the whole article because the Friday night law enforcement calls follow the article

Frequent Joe Sac readers know I have been hollering about getting a curfew in Sacramento for the last two weeks. I previously cited Elk Grove’s crackdown on delinquent teens, and urged Sacramento to do the same “especially in areas like Natomas where teens do whatever they want at night.” I even emailed Elk grove bloggers and city council people asking them to shed…

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…

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 to make it better?

I stumbled across an old Dept of Ed article called “Manual to Combat Truancy.” This line in particular jumped out at me “I’ve…

Remember the Bee’s article in the days leading up to the primary mayoral election? “Crime fight: Who’s got it right, Johnson or Fargo?” Reporter Ryan Lillis started his Fargo-biased article off with “To hear Kevin Johnson tell it, Sacramento is a violent place.” He also quoted Fargo as saying “Citizens should feel safe..” (or some spin-doctored quasi double negative like “citizens should not feel unsafe..”)

How safe do us Natomasites feel right about now? Not very safe, Heather and Ryan. Two…

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 district and police department will also be in attendance tonight to meet with residents of Homecoming at Creekside and surrounding areas.

Homecoming is the site of a…

This just in from the Sacramento Police Department. As you read this, picture yourself in a Jamba Juice or Starbucks with a loved one, minding your own business, looking forward to a nice cool smoothie on a hot day, perhaps after a long day at work…

(222727) 7-10-08 @ 9:18 am, 4640 Natomas Blvd (Jamba Juice) - North Natomas
Two people were inside Jamba Juice in the Raley’s shopping center Park Place in N Natomas.  3 suspects (All 15 years old) approached…