Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
The monetary reward for information about a midday sexual assault in Glenn Hall Park last month has grown. Councilman Steve Cohn is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for the crime, bringing the total reward pool to $3,000, Sgt. Matt Young said.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
... of “Breakfast at Tiffany's” at a free-movies-in-the-park series sponsored by City Councilman Steve Cohn. Asian-American activists protested Mickey Rooney's 1961 portrayal of the character Mr. Yunioshi as racist. Rooney, as the often-irritated neighbor of Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly, wears grotesque buck teeth and adopts absurdly “Asian”-accented English. Both incidents point...
ScrippsNews (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" at a free-movies-in-the-park series sponsored by City Councilman Steve Cohn.Asian-American activists protested Mickey Rooney's 1961 portrayal of the character Mr. Yunioshi as racist. Rooney, as the often-irritated neighbor of Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly, wears grotesque buck teeth and adopts absurdly "Asian"-accented English.Both incidents point to...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
... more convenient and transit is slim, transportation planners say."It's a niche," City Councilman Steve Cohn, a proponent, conceded. He's hoping to give it a limited test in Sacramento in the next year.Sacramento city officials recently met with representatives of City CarShare, a seven-year-old nonprofit agency that provides 300 cars at 180 locations for more than 10,000 members in...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... Pannell, Lauren Hammond and Ray Tretheway. Johnson is backed by council members Robbie Waters, Steve Cohn and Sandy Sheedy.– Mary Lynne VellingaRecommend this story at Yahoo! Buzz: Sacramento City Councilman Kevin McCarty announces his support for Mayor Heather Fargo in her bid for re-election at a news conference Thursday. Fargo now has the backing of five of her council colleagues....
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Those who cherish free speech - and this newspaper certainly does - may find fault with Sacramento City Councilman Steve Cohn's decision to pull "Breakfast at Tiffany's" from his neighborhood Screen on the Green series last Saturday night. We don't. It was the right decision, certainly preferable to excising the offensive anti-Asian scenes from the movie, one really bad option that had...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
The film series impresario, Sacramento Vice Mayor Steve Cohn, had planned to serve the 1961 classic starring Audrey Hepburn, but he was flayed by Asian American activists who called the film racist for Mickey Rooney's stereotypical depiction of the buffoonish Mr. Yunioshi.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Is "Breakfast at Tiffany's" the lighthearted 1961 classic starring Audrey Hepburn a racist film that perpetuates negative Asian stereotypes? STEVE COHN, Sacramento City Council
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
... tax revenues don't pick up.Yet on Tuesday night, all the council members except Robbie Waters and Steve Cohn voted to spend $293,852 – $193,852 more than the $100,000 originally budgeted – to buy higher-quality cat cages for the animal shelter.Critics of city spending are likely to compare this to the council's vote to spend $650,000 on a tree survey a couple of weeks ago. But the...
