By R.E. GraswichHere’s one positive comment about the Kings’ basketball season, which ends this week: I’ve seen worse.The Kings were my fulltime beat as a sportswriter during the mid-1980s and early 1990s. It was the era of Bill Russell, Dick Motta and Garry St. Jean as coaches and Reggie Theus,
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By Kunal Merchant, Chief of Staff to Mayor Kevin JohnsonIf you check out the third floor “bullpen” workspace at City Hall, you will see energized young people tapping away at computers and working the phones. Don’t mistake the activity as staffers working for the Mayor’s office. Those motivated
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We beat the deadline by one week. That says a lot about Sacramento’s commitment to flood awareness and safety. The deadline was set by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after the city discovered 35 building permit violations in the North Natomas floodplain.It was our fault, and we are
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I just learned that a great American educator, Jaime Escalante, lost his battle with cancer.  I am saddened by the loss of this remarkable educator, and wanted to take a minute to reflect on his contributions to students. Through his students' remarkable success on the AP Calculus exam, Escalante
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I love the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. I just hate seeing those guys play in San Jose. Nothing against our South Bay friends. But their victory is Sacramento’s loss. Even last week, when our city council was voting unanimously to accept the recommendations of the Sacramento First task force
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The faith community has come up with a remarkably innovative method for fighting homelessness in the Sacramento community. It’s a beautifully simple idea, which makes it even more beneficial: Ask parishioners at more than 80 houses of worship to donate one day’s worth of rent or mortgage for a
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Sometimes, there’s no better analogy than a sports analogy. In our efforts to build a new entertainment and sports complex, the comparison fits. We finished the first quarter. We built a 10-point lead. But we’re a long way from the final buzzer. This week, the Sacramento City Council unanimously
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How positive is this? A Sacramento City Council uniformly impressed by a proposal to build a privately financed entertainment and sports complex, linked with the city’s new intermodal transit center downtown. The energy created by merging the two projects could be unique in city history. Each year,
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The date was October 29, 2009, when I asked members of the media and community to join me on the top floor of a new building on Capitol Mall. I said, “Look out the windows and let yourself dream.” Today (March 11, 2010), the city of Sacramento began to grab hold of that dream. In a special
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It’s a monumental day for the city of Sacramento. The City Council will convene a Special Session today at 11:30 a.m. to receive the Sacramento First Task Force recommendations on a new entertainment and sports complex. The Task Force, a group of citizen volunteers, has contributed more than 900
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