Courtesy of Radio Matthew’s YouTube channel comes this video from last Friday of a spooktacular bit on News10 Good Morning. Movie after the break… Continue reading “Morning horror on News10”
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City wants you to photograph dumpers
The Bee reported today that the city will start awarding $500 to citizens who send in photographic evidence of illegal garbage dumping. It is a severe problem in neighborhoods like Oak Park, and one hopes the city’s plan will work. The guilty parties will be fined $500.
For some reason that $500 correlation* is humorous to me. Continue reading “City wants you to photograph dumpers”
Janet Jackson’s Boob Fell Out? At the superbowl?
From my favorite celebrity trash site (mollygood.com) comes the recognition of our fine city’s outstanding journalism. Seriously? We’re still asking JJ about her boob? Next after the break some hilarious Monica Lewinsky jokes.
No, this doesn’t bode well…
Yeah I know that headline won’t make any sense after a few days from now. But News10 brings us the news that the rate of sexually transmitted diseases is out of control in Sac county.
Researchers estimated that 40 percent of Sacramento’s teens and young adults have an STD such as chlamydia, HIV, gonorrhea, syphilis, genital herpes, hepatitis B and HPV.
If you’ll permit me to switch to French for a moment…holy shit!! 40 percent??
p.s. Typo on Glenna Trochet.
The War on PBS
Ken Burns and his team swore that they would never do another war documentary, but were inspired to tackle WWII after learning that more than 1000 veterans of this war die every day. Faced with a disappearing history, he and co-director Lynn Novick set out to document these soldiers’ and their families’ stories and to learn more about the home front in The War.
Interviews were conducted in four US cities: Sacramento, Luverne, MN, Mobile, AL, and Waterbury, CT. Those who viewed the first night learned of the experiences of several Sacramentans.
Read more about Sacramento during the War and the featured locals at the following links:
Earl Burke
Barbara Covington
Jeroline Green
Robert Kashiwagi
Burnett Miller
William Perkins
Susumu Satow
Harry Schmid
Dolores Silva
Walter Thompson
Asako Tokuno
Tim Tokuno
Sascha Weinzheimer
Burt Wilson
The War continues tonight with Part 2 of 7 on PBS at 8 and 10pm, and will be shown a total of four nights this week and three nights next week.
More traffic problems for I-5 corridor in ’08
One of my favorite Bee columns, Back-Seat Driver, reports today on CalTrans’ new plan to shut down lanes and onramps on I-5 in downtown.
Beginning in February or March and lasting through October, Caltrans will close one or two freeway lanes in each direction from Richards Boulevard on the north to the I-5 junction with Highway 50 on the south.
That will leave three lanes open in each direction, Dinger said.
Key ramps, such as the commuter-heavy I and A street connections also will be closed at points during the year
Apparently there are drainage problems there and it leaks, and therefore flood danger in the long run. But holy smokes, that does not sound like a fun 2008 for commuters or people flying on airplanes. Bizjak says this is the busiest strectch of I-5 north of Los Angeles. (Yay Sacramento!) I’m sure RT and the city have some ideas to alleviate the problem though… Continue reading “More traffic problems for I-5 corridor in ’08”
Natomas Flooded in Media Controversy
This controversy over free publications makes me think of ripping down someone else’s “Vote for me!” student council campaign sign and replacing it with your own:
A Natomas media rivalry has turned ugly, with owners of two local publications each claiming the other has stolen stacks of the competitor’s periodicals from the rack.
In one case, Natomas Journal publisher Will Craig was caught on surveillance tape in August picking up a stack of N Magazines from the South Natomas Community Center, replacing them with his own newspaper and dumping the rival publication in an outside recycling bin…
Craig said he simply was sending a message to the people connected with N Magazine because he believes they have been stripping his racks for 21 months.
I understand, only remotely, that it’s important to the publishers to tell advertisers what their circulation is and where their publication is offered; however, doesn’t getting rid of the rival’s rag artificially increase the number of publications being taken?
At least he’s recycling them.
Are we “Silicon Valley East”?
From NASA for Kids’ careers page
on being a computer programmer
From the Computer Science Programming page on Sac City’s website
Sacramento is known as “Silicon Valley East” because of the large number of computer and high-tech companies that have moved to, or established a facility in, the greater Sacramento metropolitan area.
By whom? I don’t mean to disparage our tech sector, but has anybody actually heard that appellation used before? Also wouldn’t East be a bit too specific, considering we are just a few clicks East of San Jose? I think North would be better. Not sure what Redmond, Washington would think about that, though…
Chicken Little 2.0
Local blog, Flippers in Trouble, received a mention recently in a Forbes.com article about the best places to flip a home.
Watching asking prices drop on flipper properties–those bought and sold within two years, according to real estate agents–has become a sport in the Sacramento real estate blogosphere. By filtering official Multiple Listing Service (MLS) data, the blog Flippers In Trouble tracks every area flipper–those who bought a home in the last two years–and reports who is trying to sell his property for less than he paid.
So, uh, I guess congratulations are in order? After 1 or 2 or 1,348 listings don’t you sort of get the picture that folks are having a hard time flipping properties? It’s a down market, we get it. I wonder if sacbee.com sponsors this Web site because they love them some piling on about the housing market.
UPDATE: Turns out we aren’t the only ones with the market cornered on snark. The folks over at Sacramento Land(ing) are having some fun with this post, too. Nice work, guys.
The heat is…on
A few weeks ago sac-eats wrote a post “encouraging” folks that read this here web log to vote for it as “Best Local Blog” and/or “Best Local Website”. Local blogger FFT commented that this effort to garner votes was “shameless”. Well, via FFT, we learn that there is “a major upset brewing” for Best Blog. Jeff, over at Eyes for the Brambles, picked up on this post as well.
I can’t guess the upset. Sacrag and hecksac won last year. Have people grown tired of snark and food and rock show reviews?
Well, Sacramento, what local blogs do you think have a chance at taking home the top spot this year? What makes a good local blog? Random comments about comments? Hard hitting local media watchdogging? Food reviews? Your random comments are welcome…
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