Want to take a virtual drive down just about any street in Sacramento without ever leaving home? Now virtual cruising is no longer limited to the geeks playing Sim City. Like it or not, about ten days ago Google rolled out a new version of its controversial “Street View” of Google Maps, and Sacramento was one of six or so new locales now available for virtual Sunday drives.

If you’re not familiar with Street View, it’s an option on Google Maps…

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 out of this horrific story is that one Brian Kendrick and his accomplice, Aaron Stewart, were apprehended by police due to a tip provided by a…

A senator from Palo Alto is introducing legislation that would add text-messaging to the cell phone ban on motorists in California. The bill’s author Senator Joe Simitian states, “Texting while driving is so obviously unsafe that it’s hard to believe anyone would attempt it, yet every-day observation suggests there are an awful lot of folks who do.”

He has a point. Kind of. While I agree texting while driving is dangerous for those who lack good judgment (which appears to be…

In light of the anti technology ideas spilling out of city hall, you would never know incumbent mayor Heather Fargo is the same progressive visionary her campaign spin doctors have presented her as in recent months.

If there were any questions about the Fargo-led Sacramento City Council’s aversion to technology and progress, their latest shenanigan attempting to pick more tax dollars out of the pockets of inflation-embattled Sacramentans for text messaging (of all things), should remove all doubt.

Did you know the council…

Where is the love? Sorry, I can’t paint a brighter picture of Natomas. I appreciate the stepped-up efforts of the police department, but we’re still a long way from where we need to be..

Thinking about buying a home in Natomas? DON’T. Natomas is the city’s dumping ground for low income housing, and it is plagued by criminal activity from the big box strip malls to the interiors of the Natomas and Regency Park neighborhoods. And it’s only going to get…

Unsubscribe. That word sums up my position on a lot of things these days.

My latest unsubscribe request happened this morning after I read yet another email from the Obama campaign asking me: “Are you ready for the next big challenge of this campaign? On Saturday, June 28th, more than a thousand supporters like you are hosting Unite for Change house meetings all across the country. Ordinary people will be opening their homes and inviting friends and neighbors to come together and…

While Hill’ was dodging snipers, and Bill was dodging Vanity Fair, and John McCain was pining for more troops in Iraq, one of the most amazing stories in our country’s rich history was playing out–although you’d be hard-pressed to discern it through the chorus mind-bending propaganda flooding the airwaves.

If you haven’t had the opportunity to soak up this inspiring tale, don’t feel bad; detractors are working around the clock to keep the public bullhorns pregnant with anti Barack Obama rhetoric—rhetoric…

Sounds like a headline you would see on an anti Kevin Johnson site this election season, huh? But no, here we are talking about something quite different. We are referring to a MUST SEE video clearly proving that the NBA is crooked and FIXED games–several of which led to the Sacramento Kings losing the 2002 Western Conference Finals! Ok, I’m grossly exaggerating and this video does no such thing, but it sure is —- thought provoking.

You need to a flashplayer…

What follows is a report detailing crimes/complaints occurring in the Natomas area within the past several days. This information was provided by the Sacramento Police Department. The text appears just as the PD drafted it…

(183766) 6/7/08 (Friday night/Saturday morning) @ 1:08 am @ the Center Court Restaurant.
Center Court was at capacity with a DJ on the patio. They ended up turning away about 200 people due to being at capacity. Several fights eventually broke out in the parking lot…

This weekend I read a very sobering Time story on the war in Iraq, and how conditions are so deplorable there that our men and women in uniform have no choice but to take mood-altering drugs to cope with them. I wasn’t shocked to learn this, it only fed my outrage over this war.

If Prozac was the military’s “secret weapon,” isn’t any longer; the article goes to great lengths to expose the atrocities of the “theater” of far east combat,…