Category: News

I missed about four days of blogging, but this morning when I was going over the Bee there were three stories that made me very proud to be a Sacramentan. There is the big sports story, of course: The Monarchs are the queens of the WNBA. Hooray professional basketball champions!

And then of course the City of Sacramento is trying to blanket downtown and midtown in free wireless internet access. (Imagine hundreds of Sac Rags all over the central city, only much more specific: Boulevard Park Rag, for instance.)

But the most important and pride-inducing story for me: the 2004 world champion chili chef lives in Elk Grove. I’d just like to point out to Mrs. Kathy Hipskind that I am free any night of the week to come over for a bowl, and that I will definitely bring the corn bread and RC Cola.

Hmm, three Sac Bee links this morning. I wonder why he’s so pro-Bee this morning? I wonder why he’d ask a leading rhetorical question like that? I wonder if we’ll find out an answer to those rhetorical questions later this week. Stay tuned…?

As if the chickens haven’t already gone through enough!

KCRA reports about a truck carrying chickens on Highway 99 yesterday that crashed and then started a grass fire:

“If they weren’t wearing seatbelts, they would’ve been ejected and landed on barbwire … they’re very lucky,” CHP Officer Steven Rice said.

Let this be a lesson to all the other chickens who don’t wear seatbelts.

Not to break up the comment frenzy with CoolDMZ’s post on the dispute in Franklin (kudos, btw, to all those that really know a lot about CC&Rs…who knew?), but I had to comment on this News10.net article regarding alcohol at CSUC.

As reported here in August (well, sort of), Chico State not only implemented the online, two-and-half hour alcohol awareness course, they went ahead and just banned the substance they were educating the kids on! Now that’s progressive.

That sound you’re hearing right now is the stampede of 2,000 young adults making their way down highway 5 to transfer to Sac State.

Interesting front-pager today in the Bee about a dispute down in Franklin over a proposed church building. A tiny church (5 people) wants to expand to a whopping 30 and has bought a house in a residential neighborhood to meet in because it was all they could afford. Overvalued much?

Well, local residents won’t have it. They are trying to get the county to deny the church’s permits to use the house based on a local covenant that restricts “noxious or offensive trade” from being carried on in the neighborhood. How dare they worship their god with music and ritual! Won’t somebody think of the children!?

Only problem: the “noxious trade” clause is clause 2. Clause 1 just happens to be “Neither the whole or any part of said premises shall be sold, rented or leased to any person or persons not of the White or Caucasian Race.” Class move, Franklin!

Stories like this just warm your heart, don’t they?. What is especially noteworthy about this theft is that the church’s pastor THINKS there were at least two thieves because the safe weighed between 200 and 300 pounds. I smell an inside job. An alarm goes off at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday. The guard “didn’t notice” anything missing. Hmmm. Then Monday morning at 1:30 a.m. one of the credit cards was used. So we are to believe that the alarm was triggered on accident at 10:30, nothing was the matter, the guard goes back to, uh, guarding. Then “thieves” break in to the church and steal the safe without triggering the alarm and make off with a 200-300 pound safe?

And lastly, as if this whole incident wasn’t enough to turn your stomach, they end it with:

Cummins says the church will take another collection next week for hurricane victims.

I’m sure folks will dig really deep into their pocketbooks for this one. Here’s a tip Bear Creek Community Church goers, take your chances at www.redcross.org.

…it just moves around the corner! Local rock mainstays Kevin and Allyson Seconds have announced that they have signed a lease and will be re-opening the True Love Coffeehouse at 2315 K Street. The True Love closed last year after establishing itself as THE place in Sacramento to see local bands. The new location will have a larger stage area and more room to enjoy the music. But what about the waffles, baby?

When I was in high school (oh so long ago) there was talk of a new UC in Merced. There were banners and celebrations and I remember thinking that this was a good thing for the otherwise faceless San Joaquin Valley (faceless to us who lived large in the facemore booming foothills of California’s Mother Lode). At any rate, a few years went by and the talk died down and the news started to dwindle, or perhaps my interest in it did.

Well what do you know? The new U.C. Merced is up and running and ready to take on Turkey Tech…err, the world! I was wondering what sort of aspiring, young high school grads will have their eyes set on UCM when I came across this quote from an article at News10.net:
Continue reading “U.C. Merced opens its doors”

Let me just say, “Way to go Sacramento!”

UPDATE: Or not.

UPDATE II: Or yes again!