By Kevin JohnsonMayor of Sacramento So me and Gavin Newsom have a suit problem. When we visit each other’s city, our suits run into trouble. Last October, my suit (and luggage) was stolen in San Francisco while I was speaking to a taxi driver near Union Square. Mayor Newsom’s office managed to
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By Andie CorsoStand Up Two minutes may pass from the moment you read this blog, start to finish. In those two minutes, three California students will decide to drop out of school. Not graduate. Not skip ahead to university studies. No, those students are quitting. They are walking away from one of
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By Kevin JohnsonMayor of SacramentoI’ve never said much about this, but there was deep personal sadness when I was traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Phoenix Suns in February 1988.The trouble had no connection with basketball. I was ashamed of my new state for another reason: A year before
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By Kevin JohnsonMayor of Sacramento You answer the bell when the White House calls. Especially when the topic is education. In recent days, the Mayor’s office has been honored with two requests to help lead the education reform discussion on a national level. I will be serving as co-chair of a
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By Lauren Altdoerffer  Earth Day 2010 is the perfect time to preview Mayor Kevin Johnson’s new Green Initiative.  The Green Initiative will focus on the “Three Es” of clean, green tech – energy, environment and education.  The goal is to make Sacramento a national leader in the green movement,
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By Kevin JohnsonMayor of Sacramento  It’s a beautiful spring day in Washington, D.C., with the temperature pushing 70 and rain not due until the end of the week. But there’s no time to enjoy the weather. The Sacramento mission is busy.  We are in the final hours Tuesday (April 20, 2010) of the 40th
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By Kevin JohnsonMayor of SacramentoCity and county officials from across the Sacramento region have been making the annual April trek to Washington for 40 years.I’m a relative newcomer, looking forward to my third “Cap to Cap” trip this weekend.So what’s the point?It’s simple: If we don’t go to
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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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