A year ago the City of Sacramento passed two gun ordinances: One ordinance made it mandatory to report gun thefts within 48 hours; the other mandated logging and fingerprinting of anyone buying ammo in Sacramento city limits.Today the city is holding a ceremony at the police warehouse to–according to their press release–”trumpet the success” of the program.

Sacramento city councilman Kevin McCarty sponsored both “bills,” so it’s likely he will be playing lead trumpet this morning at the ceremony. I picture…

Heads are spinning, nodding, shaking, and probably rolling tonight after local officials released a commissioned report stating blacks (and Hispanics to a lesser degree), are two times more likely to be pulled over than Whites and Asians in SOME AREAS in the city of Sacramento.

I read through the report last night (not recommended). Looks like Lamberth Consulting–who executed the study and penned the report–definitely earned their money. The reports offers a lot of conclusions, but the only ones I am…

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…

“Dont push me, cause Im close to the edge, Im trying not to lose my head, Its like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under” - Grrandmaster Flash in “The Message”

I was over at some apartments in Regency Park (which is north of Natomas Park) off Zurlo Way yesterday evening. These are generally low income apartments, and I believe most are Section 8 (like almost all the apartments Fargo and company have piled…

I’ll never forget a conversation I had with a young guy who had just purchased a 4,000 square foot stucco mansion at the apex of the real estate boon. This individual was only about 25 years old, and at the time he was working as a loan broker pedaling sub prime loans to anyone with a social security number (and some without). I sheepishly inquired, “So what kind of payment does a house like that bring? $4,000 a month?”

He laughed…

Man, I don’t know whether to rejoice or LMAO about Fargo and Tretheway’s sudden election-season interest in Natomas public safety. Yesterday I received an email from Captain Daniel Hahn stating the Sacramento Police Department (note: THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, not city leaders) wished to meet with residents about the rash of home invasion armed robberies in Natomas. It stated:

“The Natomas (both North and South) community/neighborhood associations and the Police Department will be hosting a community meeting on Monday at 6:30 pm…