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Elk Grove News Minute Podcast – A cozy little system for incumbents
During Elk Grove’s 23 years of cityhood, city council members and mayors often have been elected without reaching 50 percent. Listen Time 1 Minute
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Go Big or Go Home – Can Singh-Allen succeed where former Elk Grove mayors Davis, Ly faltered?
In 2012 Elk Grove voters started direct election of mayors. In that span, there have been three mayors – Gary Davis, Steve Ly, and the current officeholder, Bobbie Singh-Allen. Aside from serving two terms (two so far for Singh-Allen), one other commonality has been that they all have tied themselves to
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Elk Grove News Minute Podcast – They treat constituents like they are the idiots
A few weeks ago, former Republican Congresswoman and Donald Trump critic Liz Cheney made an obvious observation. Cheney said, “We’re electing idiots.” Listen Time 1 Minute
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Gala fundraiser announced for relocation of Sacramento Zoo to Elk Grove
Even though financing for the proposed relocation of the Sacramento Zoo to Elk Grove is unidentified, much less formally approved by Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen and her city council, Sacramento Zoological is proceeding as if it was. A posting on the Sacramento Zoo’s website has announced its September
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Brewing political problem for Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen, City Council posed by momarmy.elkgrove
As reported earlier this week, the group calling itself momarmy.elkgrove has taken their grievances about the Elk Grove Unified School District to the City of Elk Grove. This week the group posted an Instagram video mocking Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen. Not surprisingly, the group also made a video
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Activist group momarmy.elkgrove takes aim at City of Elk Grove, Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen
The ongoing battle mounted against the Elk Grove Unified School District from vocal activists is now bringing the Elk Grove mayor and city council into their focus. On Monday, July 10, an Instagram account identified as momary.elkgrove posted a video of portions of recent comments made by one of
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Social media video shows street fight in Old Town-Historic Downtown Elk Grove
A social media video posted on Sunday, July 9, 2023, shows what appears to be a street fight. According to the posting information, the video was recorded in Historic Downtown Elk Grove, also popularly known as Old Town. In the video, there are five people, of which three men are
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How does ChatGPT respond to questions about Elk Grove?
A technology topic that has generated significant interest of late has been Artificial Intelligent or AI. Within that realm, ChatGPT has garnered attention. In its simplest form, ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) is software that will provide written answers to questions based on information scoured from the Internet. Launched late
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Elk Grove News Minute Podcast – ‘You’ve come a long way baby, but you got a lot further to go’
There has been a rebranding of Old Town Elk Grove. Its new name is Historic Downtown Elk Grove. The renaming is part of a six-month marketing campaign by Explore Elk Grove. Listen Time 1 Minute
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Time for the Elk Grove city attorney, Kronick to throw in towel on Zeus case? Will two cases TKO Hobbs?
A review of Elk Grove City Council’s closed meeting agenda reveals a proliferation of litigation. The most prominent lawsuit confronting the city is the Oak Rose housing discrimination case they are defending against the State and Attorney General of California. Aside from that, the city is facing lawsuits from
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Mayor Singh-Allen reiterates Historic Downtown Elk Grove (Old Town) can become as Gaslamp Quarter-like tourist attraction
During the June 28, 2023, Elk Grove City Council meeting, Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen reiterated her vision for Historic Downtown Elk Grove. After approving a loan guarantee for a bbq restaurant, the mayor said the area formerly known as Old Town Elk Grove can become something like San Diego’s Gaslamp
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Assemblymember Nguyen’s first piece of legislation signed into law, expands Elk Grove’s representation; Atkins makes history
More representation on SacRT Board California Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen (D – Elk Grove) had her first piece of legislation signed into law today. The legislation was signed by California Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins who is acting governor while Gov. Gavin Newsom is out of state. “I thank Acting-Governor Atkins