Leaving for SFO - Sacramento, California, United States
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The cloud of smoke hanging over the Sacramento region grew even thicker Sunday. And the air is likely to get worse before it gets better. A National Guard helicopter carries water to help battle a blaze last week in Butte County. Thousands of acres continue to burn in Northern California, bringing smoky conditions back to the Sacramento Valley. Hot, windy weather is expected all week.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Democrats on Tuesday proposed billions in tax increases on businesses and high earners to help bridge California's budget shortfall. Republican Assemblyman Roger Niello of Sacramento, right, said the Democratic budget proposal "will be a troubled and very challenged proposal on the Assembly floor."
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
In a debate this spring, candidate for mayor Kevin Johnson called the city's Second Saturday Art Walk "Sacramento's best-kept secret." An epicenter of Sacramento's Second Saturday Art Walk is a stretch of 20th Street where art, music and often throngs of people converge. Caution is a good idea at 20th and J, whether you're driving, cycling or on foot. Visitors take in the offerings at A Bitchin' Space...
MSNBC.com: Nightly News (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
July 8: A heatwave in California further undermined firefighting efforts as winds shifted wildfires north of Sacramento. NBC's George Lewis reports. (Nightly News)
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The California Mortgage Bankers Association commends Governor Schwarzenegger for signing SB 1137 (Perata) today.
NW World News Prayer Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
PJI Blitzes CA with Pastor Briefings on Same-Sex Marriage Issues Sacramento, CA - Due to the legalization of same-sex marriages by the California Supreme Court, the Pacific Justice Institute is providing legal briefings to pastors on this issue. The briefings give practical counsel to pastors on limiting legal liability to churches as they face requests to perform wedding ceremonies, the renting of...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | yesterday
“..Home values fell in 23 of 25 U.S. metropolitan areas in April, according to Radar Logic Inc., as sales of a record number of foreclosed homes pushed prices down. The Sacramento, California, region saw the biggest drop, with prices falling 31.7 percent from April 2007. Sacramento was followed by the Las Vegas area (29.9 percent), San [...]
Overheard in the Office (Free subscription) | yesterday
Peon #1 : All those Luxury Wafers are broken. Peon #2 : How do you know? Peon #1 : I hand-checked them all. And licked them too. You can never be too careful. Hall of Justice Sacramento, California Overheard by: no office snacks for me Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | wtf? Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-07-08
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following statement has been issued by the California Bankers Association regarding the passage of SB 1137 (Perata) into law earlier today:
Ex-Courtesan in Transition (again) (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mountain and canyon friends watch the glow of fires from a few miles away, hoping the wind doesn't shift. Others have been clearing even more brush away and installing sprinkler systems in case new ones start. It's scary when the whole San Joaquin/Sacramento Valley is filled with so much smoke that it's worse than Los Angeles' smog. There were times on the drive down that I couldn't even see the Sierra...
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | yesterday
Airmen of the 302nd Air Expeditionary Group operating out of McClellan Airfield in Sacramento, Calif., and are flying C-130 Hercules aircraft that can drop 3,000 gallons of fire retardant supporting fighting fires in California. The Airmen are in their sixth day of fighting fires throughout the state. ((U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Roy. A. Santana) O n the Home Front: SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 8,...
California Progress Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Duane E. Campbell Professor of Education California State University Sacramento The school systems in most of our cities in...
Dvorak Uncensored (Free subscription) | yesterday
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The state that prides itself on being a national leader in things like energy policy or gay marriage is the last of its kind when it comes to mixing race in prison cells. The California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation has just launched a new policy to integrate inmates in housing units, wherever [...]