Opinion

What’s in a name (for a zoo)? The high-stakes, high-risk money game being played by village idiots at taxpayer expense

Apparently, naming rights are the psychological factor driving fundraising by the Sacramento Zoological Society (SZS) through its corporate donors.

Michael Monasky

09 Feb 2025 — 3 min read

Old Town Elk Grove senior affordable housing project approved for $4.2 million loan

Construction of the three-level structure is planned to start in February 2026.

California Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act Passes First Assembly Committee

The Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act would require the largest fossil fuel corporations to pay for the climate devastation

Can rebranding, renaming salvage the city's Ghost Ship now known as Old Town Elk Grove?

Do Old Town Elk Grove retailers have any chance of drawing shoppers to what we will say charitably are undercapitalized small businesses with limited selections?

Shattering the suburban bucolic myth, Elk Grove resident describes marauding juvenile bicyclists' harassment

Elk Grove mayors and city council members have long fancied the city as a California version of Garrison Keillor's fictional Lake Wobegon

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Old Town Elk Grove senior affordable housing project approved for $4.2 million loan

California Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act Passes First Assembly Committee

Can rebranding, renaming salvage the city's Ghost Ship now known as Old Town Elk Grove?

Shattering the suburban bucolic myth, Elk Grove resident describes marauding juvenile bicyclists' harassment