Mayor Kevin Johnson is currently in the process of visiting Sacramento’s six major counties to discuss the benefits of a future entertainment and sports complex along the stretch of what used to be the old Southern Pacific railyards downtown. At the mayor’s weekly press conference Tuesday, Johnson, who had just visited El Dorado County and the city of Folsom the day before, called his visits “authentic outreach.” Johnson is going on a bus tour Thursday to visit regions of El Dorado County, Davis, Roseville and Rancho Cordova to seek input from the communities there, he said. This city-to-city outreach is part of the the mayor’s Think Big Coalition. Johnson said the four guiding principl

A little over two months ago, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts chose Sacramento over 27 other cities as the first partner for the "Any Given Child" program. The program, which promotes arts education, will be developed in Sacramento over the next two years before rolling out nationwide. Mayor Kevin Johnson emailed the following survey regarding participation in the Any Given Child program: In October, the Kennedy Center announced that it would pilot its Any Given Child program here in Sacramento with the goal of providing access and equity in arts in education to all students. Since then, we've been hard at work focusing on this welcome opportunity to expand arts opport

On a whim, I emailed both mayor campaigns & asked if they'd stop by our neighborhood to talk about some local issues. It was a pleasant surprise that both candidates were able to (especially so close to Election Day). Kevin Johnson was scheduled to stop by the Southside Park bandstand area today at 5:45pm. It was short notice, but I announced it on the neighborhood association newsgroup and there was a sign up at the park. Unfortunately not a lot of people showed up, but Kevin was still gracious enough to talk with us & ask about our concerns. Here is a video of the visit today. Apologies that the sound is hard to hear... but it should be audible if you turn your volume way up. http://v