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This morning California State University Trustees named the new president of the Sacramento campus. Replace the retiring president of Robert S. Nelson is J. Luke Wood, who will become Sacramento State’s ninth president on July 16. Trustee Diego Arambula, chair of the Sacramento State Presidential Search Committee, called Wood
Environmental News
At the site of a future solar farm in the Central Valley, Governor Gavin Newsom today announced a legislative package and signed an executive order that would gut the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to expedite the construction of the salmon-killing Delta Tunnel and other infrastructure projects, drawing condemnation from
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Will the third time be the charm for the STA? At the close of the Wednesday, May 10, 2023, Elk Grove City Council meeting, Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen said another ballot measure to raise Sacramento County sales taxes is being explored. As a member of the Sacramento Transportation Authority, Singh-Allen said
Law and Justice
Darnell Bernard Edwards, 33, of Antioch, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Fresno today to 19 years and seven months in prison to be followed by 15 years of supervised release for the sex trafficking of two minors. Evidence produced against Edwards showed in April and May 2019,
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Salary set at 75 % of Superior Court Judges At their meeting this morning, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors voted 4 – 1 to give themselves a 20-percent pay raise. The only supervisor voting against the raise was District 4 representative Sue Frost. The item was placed in the consent calendar.
Regional News
The last week of March 2023 saw another school shooting that killed six people, three of them 9-year-olds, in Nashville. Coincidentally, Washington Post had a lengthy and somewhat graphic – not gory – animation of what happens when AR 15 bullets shred a body. The Wahington Post produced a graphic – not gory
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Del Paso is a geographic panhandle At this yesterdays Sacramento County Board of Supervisors and Sacramento City Council meetings, several residents in an unincorporated area of the county addressed problems with Del Paso Park which is in Sacramento city limits. The park is in the city’s northeast area and
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Will Bonta willingly pose with BSA for one of her selfies? Politicians, by definition, are narcissistic and self-serving. In the 21st century, there is no better conveyance of this behavior than selfies. In this instance, when referring to selfies, we are not suggesting prominent politicians who pose for a selfie
Law and Justice
The Sutter County Sheriff’s Department has released the name of two victims whose bodies were located on Friday, March 17, in a rural area. The victims have been identified as Vicky Keovilayphone, 40, of Elk Grove, and Derrick James Engelman, 40, of Yuba County. The bodies were located Friday
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Deep regulatory capture by Big Oil from top to bottom SACRAMENTO, CA— As regulatory capture by Big Oil and Big Gas becomes deeper and deeper in the supposedly “green” state of California, climate activists with the Last Chance Alliance held a protest at noon on March 17 outside the California
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Valenzuela fears over 12,000 residents could lose housing During the afternoon session of the Tuesday, March 14 Sacramento City Council meeting, Councilmember Katie Valenzuela expressed concern about possible evictions in the city. Valenzuela made the remarks after a report on the city of Sacramento’s efforts to assist vulnerable
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Says more county mental health clinicians needed During an afternoon meeting of the Sacramento City Council on Tuesday, March 14, Mayor Darrell Steinberg discussed relations with Sacramento County over dealing with the region’s homelessness crisis. Although relations between the City of Sacramento and Sacramento County have sometimes been fractious,