"One concern for Barker is the lack of lights on the smaller residential streets that tend to get very dark, making it difficult for people to navigate the streets at night." How did the indians and the settlers ever get along without street lights?

I should also point out that some poisons are used to control rats and mice that might end up poisoning the cats when they eat them, so attracting more cats by feeding them is not necessarily doing them any favors

The health department inspects food facilities yearly, and the presence of animals, even cats, could get the business closed until they brought them under control. If this guy had any sense, he would have fed them far, far away from this facility to help keep his employer in compliance with the code, and to help keep the public safe from contaminated food.

Free enterprise is the solution, and always has been. If cab drivers find there is too much competition, they might find another business, or quite possibly send word back to india or pakistan that there aren't as many opportunities here for immigrants as there were in the old days.

I believe it is up to the government to post the notices, not the people.

I've always thought highly of the Sellands. They turn out a good product. I sold them some equipment many years ago for their restaurant/store, and they were a pleasure to work with. That was the first time I tried thier food too, and became a regular customer for quite some time. I'd still be one, but the money dried up for me. I hope they still have customers with money in their new location.

I don't know that this spells the end for RDA's, but it does take away the local control of them. That might be incentive enough not to create them anymore of course. But who's getting the money that has been generated by the ones already created?

Don't kid yourself Isaac; He's only insulting a small percentage of the people of this city

You gotta be kiddin' me? Circling blocks trying to find a space? There isn't any if you have to do that. Where in the streets and highways code does it allow for a private company to own rights to a public right of way? By the way; who is doing the enforcement on parking under this highway robbery scheme?

Cherylwin, If this guy doesn't know where you are, how will he know how to stay away from you? I know it's a tricky situation, however if you think he's coming back to sac to live, work, etc, it kind of makes a little sense for him to know what part of town he should stay x amount of feet from. Finding people in the area is not very hard unless they really really don't want to be found, and unless you're willing to hide out from your relatives, friends, business, community involvement and such, he can pretty much track you down with relative ease. You might want to consider putting up a strong resistance message that he should stay away from your habitats because everyone around you knows what he looks like, what he did, and that you're not going to live in fear, but instead boldly proclaim his no-fly zone. I don't know your situation at all, or anything about you of course, but I do know that one cannot have any reasonable expectation of anonymity in this age of public records, social media, and just plain communal living.

Screw the burn ban! Firewood and fires are an inherent cultural tradition for northern Californians and higher altitude dwelling central and southern Californians. If you have a problem with that, you should relocate to an area that doesn't generally burn for heat or cooking.

If you take the money to upgrade to an EPA approved unit, you also must sign an agreement not burn on the days that only EPA approved fireplaces or inserts are allowed to burn. Kind of negates the point of upgrading

With government services being cut so drastically over budget restraints, I don't see how any arts program can be spared the axe. But with so many latinos in the area, why aren't they coming forth with their wallets to support this endeavor?

My first reaction was to ask if we can now appeal the court ruling that halted implementation of prop 187.

I have little respect for the county fees right now, since the board of supervisors waived the fees for a county employee who built a whole house without paying them, and when caught asked for and got off with not only not being fined , but got a severe reduction for a "hardship". Hard for me to take these fees seriously when the administration practices corruption like that. Shouldn't the county be waiving everyones fees and reducing the amount required all across the board?

How does this actually relate to Sacramento? Was this possibly fictitious Billy one of those camped out in Sacramento, or is he portending to be on Wall street?

This is a sad commentary for those people who attended this meeting, as well as a harbinger of things to come for Sacramento. Here we had 150 people clinging to their race as an important factor in their government, and race hustling mayor all too eager to massage that weakness for his own political use. The longer people clutch race for their safety and prosperity, the longer racism and divisiveness will live on. Good thing they are not representative of the larger sacramento population at present, since 150 is such a small ratio of the stated 27 percent, but 150 racialists can infect a lot more people when you have a mayoral protagonist to aid them.

I don't know where hatch was during my last ticket event, but the meter ticket and the citation time clearly indicated a two minute difference, somewhat contradicting the "grace period" statement in the story. My complaint with ticketing isn't with the one's who issue; it's with the adjudication department. Also, the city has purposely omitted any loading zones around the entire perimeter of the state capitol, and if you have to conduct an event or get stuff onto the state park or capitol grounds, you're playing a stacked deck game of chance because most of the spaces close to the capitol building are only 1 hour.

"Hilbert is building a campaign support team with an international flair. His team will include advisers from San Diego, Mexico City and Madrid" Advisors from mexico city? Sacramento doesn't need advice from a third world, drug cartel infested, air polluted city in corrupt mexico that has to export 20% of their population to the US in order to keep their own jobless rate down. Honestly don't know much about Madrid, but if he already thinks there's not enough talent locally to get advice from, maybe he should be running for mayor in one of the locations he mentioned that already seem to know everything

There was an explosion of ethnic stores in the area, and California as a whole during the 90's and early 2000 decades, but now many of them are failing, or have failed. Waves of immigration fueled the growth, but once established, a huge section of that retail business ends up in the hands of the big boy retailers, as it was destined to. In addition, many ethnic store owner such as those from India, Pakistan, Mexico, and middle east, although merchants to their very core in their home countries, were unprepared to do business in California. They signed costly leases, and discovered regulations. Add to that the recessions, lawsuits, and family bickering, and the lifespans of these stores followed a similar pattern. So many changed hands to extend that pattern also.