We have much to be thankful for today, Thanksgiving Day 2009.I’m thankful to be Mayor of a city whose residents have answered the call of service and given hundreds of thousands of hours to volunteerism. Our Service Initiative goal this year was 500,000 community hours. We are pushing past
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Numbers can be made to say almost anything. But here’s a number we should celebrate. By one measure, Sacramento is becoming a safer city. We moved seven positions – in the right direction – in a national safety survey that looks at hundreds of U.S. cities. The ranking comes from an organization
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Sacramento meets its Dream Team today. With pride and pleasure, I have the honor of introducing members of the Citizen’s Task Force that will evaluate proposals to build a new Entertainment and Sports Complex in Sacramento. The project is called Sacramento First. The Task Force is solid gold.The
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There’s one word you’re going to be hearing a lot from the Mayor’s Office. The word is “jobs.” With the Sacramento community buzzing over the prospects of building a new entertainment and sports complex, let’s remember what’s really at stake: We’re talking about the creation of thousands of jobs.
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Finishing touches are being put on the request for offerings on a new entertainment center and sports complex for Sacramento. The document should be ready for public release early next week, followed by details of the citizen’s task force now being formed to review and evaluate project concepts.The
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One year ago today, when the United States elected its first African-American president, Sacramento elected its first African-American mayor. What you may not know is, I’m the first person born in Sacramento to be elected as the city's mayor. In fact, I'm a third generation Sacramentan. When I first
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With pride and humility, I have reached agreement with Safe Ground, the group whose collective voice brought international attention to Sacramento’s homeless problem. In a City Hall meeting with 19 members and representatives of Safe Ground, I received assurances that the group’s homeless
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