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		<title>Kids art studio ArtBeast opens today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the grand opening of a new venture called ArtBeast:
ArtBeast Studio provides open studio space, arts exploration rooms, and loads of classes so that children can dig into the arts.
It benefits the awesomely named Tubman House. For parents of little kids this is a godsend &#8212; both because of the budget and because of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/07/kids-art-studio-art-beast-opens-today/</link>
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		<title>Pearl on the River Not Exactly a Gem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a Sacramento resident, you can count on many things in the summer: at least one week of unbearable heat, a ridiculous amount of news reporting on that obvious heat, a budget impasse, and fairly weak riverside dining.
When you travel to any of the riverside joints that promise great views, relaxed atmospheres, and top-notch food, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/07/pearl-on-the-river-not-exactly-a-gem/</link>
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		<title>I want to buy a gun today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sale of firearms locally is on the rise because of the budget.
&#8220;People are coming in and saying, &#8216;I want to buy a gun today,&#8217;&#8221; Barrett said. &#8220;We&#8217;re specifically seeing people say, &#8216;I want it because I&#8217;m not going to be able to get the protection that I need from the sheriff&#8217;s department.&#8217;&#8221;
This can&#8217;t miss. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/07/i-want-to-buy-a-gun-today/</link>
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		<title>City pools are practically closed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Glenn Hall Pool, by Midtown Grid user Julia
The bathroom closure announcement is probably the most unfortunate and glaring change in the city&#8217;s gutted rec budget, but I&#8217;m really disappointed that almost all the pools will now only be open 3-5 PM. There will be no city pools open after 5pm, and several pools &#8212; including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/city-pools-are-practically-closed/</link>
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		<title>Cbs13.com illustrates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were to read an article about how most Sacramento parks will be closing their bathrooms (you know, because of the budget) next week would you wonder to yourself, &#8220;Bathrooms?  I don&#8217;t follow.&#8221;
Cbs13.com hears your concern and helps you out with a little image to help.
What about an article that reports on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/cbs13-illustrates/</link>
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		<title>OneSpeed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new casual fare restaurant from Waterboy owner Rick Mahan is finally open. Called OneSpeed, it&#8217;s been in the &#8220;coming-soon&#8221; stage since prohibition, which of course leads to pretty lofty expectations. Can Mahan live up? Can he deliver unlike another Sacramento over-hyped project, Hot Italian?
Damn straight he can. Stand and deliver he can. Give it to ya&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/onespeed/</link>
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		<title>Most Californians &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turns out, according to Maria Shriver, that most Californians want it all.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t close the parks, don&#8217;t cut from education, don&#8217;t cut from health care, don&#8217;t cut from anything,&#8221; said Shriver, amplifying what people tell her. &#8220;I say, &#8216;We have a $25 billion deficit: What would you do?&#8217;&#8221;
I told you! I spent it with my uncle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/most-californians/</link>
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		<title>Lance crushes competition in small town bike race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He came, he smelled, he conquered. I don&#8217;t know a lot about bike racing, but isn&#8217;t it possible for a world class cyclist to dial it down a few notches and still win a race? The headline conjures up an image of a bunch of mountain folk on rusty bikes slapped together with mismatched parts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/lance-crushes-competition-in-small-town-bike-race/</link>
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		<title>Meet the Master: Peet&#8217;s Tea Master Visiting Sacramento</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a loyal reader of this here &#8216;Rag, you know that we love Peet&#8217;s, and not just the coffee.  We love the stores, the employees, the posters, the immaculately clean restrooms, the not so subtle Bette Davis eyes that the fat guy at the Lyon&#8217;s Village store keeps giving me every time I go in &#8211; hell, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/meet-the-master-peets-tea-master-visiting-sacramento/</link>
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		<title>Family Gameshow Night Starts Tonight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting tonight at 7:00 is a great new event in Rancho Cordova, Family Gameshow Night. Win prizes, test your mettle at trivia, spelling bees and other great events.  As a sponsor, The Sac Rag is happy to guarantee your enjoyment of Family Gameshow Night.  If you don&#8217;t have a good time, your full admission price [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/family-gameshow-night-starts-tonight/</link>
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		<title>Cost of keeping CA Senators riding in style? $100 mil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California_Senate_chamberby Flickr user flap
After a legislative committee votes down a 5% salary reduction for state workers, Darrell Steinberg asks his colleagues in the Senate to take a 5% pay cut. A great factoid in that story is that the operating budget of the CA Senate is $100 million. That&#8217;s $2.5 million per member. For reference, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/cost-of-keeping-ca-senators-riding-in-style-100-mil/</link>
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		<title>Breaking: Armstrong and teammates to race in Nevada City this weekend UPDATED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Levi Leipheimer,by Flickr user kwc
The Union (Nevada County), all up in Web 3.0, caught the breaking news from cyclist Lance Armstrong hours ago via Twitter that he and Astana Cycling teammates Levi Leipheimer (winner of the 2009 AMGEN Tour of California) and Chris Horner will be racing at the 49th annual Nevada City Classic bike [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/breaking-armstrong-and-teammates-to-race-in-nevada-city-this-weekend/</link>
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		<title>Because of the budget &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed how everyone&#8217;s favorite new crutch phrase is &#8220;because of the budget&#8221; to justify/explain away everything that is going wrong in our state?  It only recently surpassed &#8220;due to the recent economic downturn&#8221; and totally leap-frogged &#8220;and the worst has yet to come&#8221; to reach the top spot.
The best example I&#8217;ve seen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/because-of-the-budget/</link>
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		<title>NY Times covers CA furloughs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bee&#8217;s State Worker blog linked to a piece in the New York Times (registration required): &#8220;On furlough, but never leaving the cubicle,&#8221; by Times reporters Susan Saulny and Robbie Brown. It profiles a few state workers who are dealing with furloughs. Some, like Wendy Roberson &#8212; a state worker &#8220;in California,&#8221; &#8212; gee, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/ny-times-covers-ca-furloughs/</link>
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		<title>Problems we&#8217;ll never have (Volume 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We love to pile on the problems we have in this town.  Heck, the Sac Rag fortune was created off that simple idea.  But, from time to time, we should consider the problems other cities have that we will never have to worry about.
For example, &#8220;Chief blames &#8216;knuckleheads&#8217; for Lakers disturbance.&#8221;
Looting and vandalism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/problems-well-never-volume-1/</link>
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		<title>About the City&#8217;s new water restrictions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to bring up a few points about the City&#8217;s new martial law declaration with respect to water use. First, you can be cited and fined for &#8220;leaky or faulty water lines, hoses, fixtures or other water using or distributing devices,&#8221; so make sure to maintain all your sprinklers. Second, the City itself is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/about-the-citys-new-water-restrictions/</link>
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		<title>Online observations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The online scene in Sacramento today is especially entertaining &#8230;
From the Home page of cbs13.com:
Last week, we brought you a story about an accused shoplifter who used a baby as a shield against law enforcement in the parking lot of a strip mall.  We have since learned the alleged shoplifting crime happened inside a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/online-scene-sacramento/</link>
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		<title>Doris does digital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because someone had to get the word out on this thing, Congresswoman Doris Matsui stepped up and sent me an email today detailing tomorrow&#8217;s transition to digital television.
As we get ready to switch to digital television, I want you to be prepared. I have provided a series of resources on my website to help answer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/doris-does-digital/</link>
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		<title>Sac State player taken in first round of MLB draft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sacramento State outfielder Tim Wheeler was taken in the last slot in the 1st round of this year&#8217;s MLB draft, going to the Colorado Rockies as the 32nd pick. You have to be pretty stoked to be picked by a team just a few season removed from a pennant winning campaign. 
Prep catchers Max Stassi [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/sac-state-player-taken-in-first-round-of-mlb-draft/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Vast and gloomy work camps&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABC News describes the North Korean prison camps that journalists Euna Lee and Carmichael native Laura Ling have been condemned to. This is really scary stuff that makes Guantanamo look like Monte Carlo. My heart goes out to the families and I hope that Hilary Clinton or Bill Richardson or Al Gore can bust some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/vast-and-gloomy-work-camps-euna-lee-laura-ling/</link>
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		<title>Local reps generous with their salaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sac Bee&#8217;s coverage of state legislators voluntarily taking pay cuts includes this helpful list. Roger Niello, Ted Gaines and Dave Cox are all taking pay cuts; Steinberg, Dave Jones, and Niello give up the per diem (Cox donates his per diem); and Cox and Niello forgo the car allowance.
This means almost all of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/local-reps-generous-with-their-salaries/</link>
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		<title>Pencils &amp; Crayons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting article from the UK about California discontinuing the use of textbooks in the classroom in favor of digital media.  You will quickly notice how we are viewed in other parts of the world after the third or fourth movie pun.
&#8220;Our kids get their information from the internet, downloaded onto their iPods, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/pencils-crayons/</link>
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		<title>England to the Rescue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Judge Morrison England that is.
In a court ruling today, Judge England of Sacramento, dismissed a charge from a plaintiff that Quaker Cereals had blatantly misled consumers by labeling one of its products as &#8220;Crunch Berries&#8221; when in fact the product contained no real fruit. First of all, how dare someone try to impugn the character [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/england-to-the-rescue/</link>
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		<title>Signs of intelligent life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We love us some smart kids and Fair Oaks certainly has one in Diana Li, who scored a perfect 2400 on her SAT.  Right awn Diana!
What percent of 1.5 million is 300?  Find out here!
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		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/signs-of-intelligent-life/</link>
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		<title>Seriously, who takes Arnie seriously?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KRXQ is under fire again for Sacramento&#8217;s #1 morning radio show and their wacky antics. The titular Rob Williams &#038; Arnie States of the Rob, Arnie and Dawn Show have drawn nationwide scorn for their hateful comments towards gender dysphoric children and blaming of the transgendered for America&#8217;s descent down a slippery slope of zoophilia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sacrag.com/2009/06/seriously-who-takes-arnie-seriously/</link>
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