Despite the County’s claim that the expensive Sacramento architect, Nacht & Lewis, “designed” the building, it turns out that they only “designed” about 40% of it (despite charging for the “design”), and that was for a modular concept which was later changed to conventional stick-bu...
In my experience, pre-trial settlement (and its preparation) is mainly a way for lawyers to make more money. It never occurs at the outset of a case, but only after months of legal bills pile up so that a case cane be made legally eligible for settlement, aka “ripe” as my lawyer ...
Back in the fall of 2016, I led a workshop at the Sitting Room called “Singing in Dark Times: Reading and Writing Political Poems.” Certainly you all remember that particular election. Dark times indeed. One of the poems we read together was “Enemies,” by Wendell Berry: ___ Enemies...
And, earlier this year, in 2012, the Sacramento Republican Party was found to have hired Momentum Political Services, a firm headed up by a woman described as a "professional con-artist". The group allegedly turned in thousands of fraudulent voter registrations as part of a $50,000 bounty ...
This should in- clude building the Temperance Flat dam along the San Joaquin River, raising Shasta dam to increase its reservoir capacity, ex- panding the San Luis Reservoir and approv- ing construction of the Sites Reservoir in the Sacramento Valley. Because water users themselves should ...
Fremont foretold of coming change. Fremont was on a “scientific” mission to California along with 60 armed soldiers. Hartnell allowed the men to camp on his own property from March 3 to March 5. Every day Fremont would raise the American flag, but eventually left to Sacramento and later ...
I was in Sacramento for a meeting with the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) attorney and the Executive Director of CIF. They are making progress in answering our complaint regarding the exorbitant ticket fees relative to the hourly minimum wage earned by many of our families and the lac...
Murray later was criminally accused of forcing his way into a Ukiah motel room in November 2020 where he sexually accosted a Sacramento woman. After reading of that incident, another woman — a friend of a former Murray wife — accused him years earlier of forcing her into twice performing ...
In 2015, with Mendocino County hosting, Mendocino and other surrounding Counties produced a statewide policy on proposed legislation which would give voice to the region’s cannabis cultivating Counties in Sacramento. In addition to her role as CEO, Angelo served in a number of statewide leadership...
Give Batjer credit for strengthening the PUC’s reputation in Sacramento and her role in reaching an agreement with PG&E for exiting bankruptcy in 2020. The deal includes a path to a state takeover of the utility if it fails to clean up its act. ...