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Toxic, explosive tank car train derailments: When will tragedy visit Elk Grove?
Can an Ohio-like derailment occur here? By Michael Monasky | Guest contributor | Two Union Pacific freight trains shuttled black toxic liquid cars through Old Town Elk Grove on Saturday, February 18, 2023. At about noon, 23 toxic tank cars passed; at about 12:30 pm, another 37 toxic black tank cars
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Elk Grove News Minute – How much do we really know about the Elk Grove Mayor and her four city councilmen?
Representative George Santos has caught the imagination of Americans and not in a favorable way. Closer to home, Lodi City Councilmember Shakir Khan has run into a host of legal problems, which leaves you wondering. Listen Time 1 Minute

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Lodi City Councilmember Shakir Khan reportedly resigns after election fraud arrest

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Lodi City Council member, brother facing a slew of gambling, money laundering and fraud charges

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Anti-hate legislation’s first scheduled hearing canceled by Assemblymember Nguyen
Bill is similar to previous legislation sponsored by Jim Cooper Soon after taking her oath of office in December for the District 10 California Assembly seat, Stephanie Nguyen introduced legislation that became this session’s Assembly Bill 32. The legislation, which is a near duplicate of legislation advanced by her
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California’s housing duel between state and local governments intensifies
By Dan Walters | CalMatters.org | In summary: A long-running conflict between the state and local governments over housing is entering a new and more confrontational phase. Several jurisdictions in the Bay Area failed to submit housing plans on time, prompting at least 12 lawsuits that could potentially give the state

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Book Review – The Last Slave Ship
The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning, By Ben Raines By Suzanne Gougherty | It was a complete coincidence that we planned our vacation last year to Alabama within days of purchasing the book – The Last Slave Ship. Great timing. Our trip to Mobile,

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Elk Grove New Minute Special Super Bowl edition – In Living Color, Up With People and the halftime show
Who in the hell was Up With People? This weekend people will gather for the mid-winter celebration known as Super Bowl Sunday. We’ll be drinking suds and grubbing on wings as we watch the game. We’ll also watch the commercials and, of course, the all-important half time show.

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Elk Grove Police Department releases body camera video of the 3 officers involved in shooting
The video contains disturbing images Late this afternoon, the Elk Grove Police Department released body camera recordings of an officer[s]-involved shooting. The shooting took place on February 1, 2023, at approximately 4:55 p.m. The suspect is accused of a Rancho Cordova murder that occurred earlier that

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Parents of inclusion education students express frustration with Elk Grove Unified over the lack of progress to help their children
Parents ask for accountability As they have since September, parents of the Elk Grove Unified School District’s Inclusion Education program students attended the Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday, February 7. The parent started attending the meetings after the school district, with no advance notice, discontinued a program to

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5 gems that you may not be familiar with or have ever heard by Burt Bacharach
Bacharach also wrote a cheeky movie theme This week we lost a true American treasure, Burt Bacharach. In his long-time collaboration with Hal Davis, the two wrote some great standards in the American songbook. While most of us are probably familiar with library Bacharach-David songs performed by Dionne Warwick, the