The number of permits processed combined is just only half the number of deputies laid off.

So what were examples of this "hate speech"?

Instead of waiting for permission to repost the entirety, why not sum up what the Bee's editorial was and a summary of how Johnson rebuts it? He doesn't even mention the Bee in that editorial. This post could easily be construed as sucking up to Johnson.

Writing about Pont and his passion for running the restaurant is worth an article, but the article as written seems to want to re-examine the issue of whether the inspection was fair. Fair enough. But the problem is that the reactions of the two sides, as described in your article, don't react to each other. Pont's explanations only make sense if the restaurant was shut down because the inspector thought Pont was rude or if he had violated food preparation rules because things were so hectic. You only mention the actual cause of the closing - cockroaches - once, and you don't talk at all about the severity of the issue. I'm not 100% sure on this, but finding just a couple of dead cockroaches is not enough to warrant a red card. What the inspector apparently found was more than that. So the rest of the article's discussion on the actual inspection focuses on when the inspector showed up, the alleged demeanor of the inspector, and then a confusing couple of paragraphs that are either non sequitiurs or are trying to insinuate that the inspector did wrong by showing up at a busy hour. Which makes me ask, what does any of that have to do with a reported infestation? The inspector alleges that the facility had an infestation. Does that kind of thing happen spontaneously during the lunch hour? If Pont had been less busy serving the customers, those cockroaches wouldn't have been there? I think it's fine to have an article about how great the restaurant is and how much devotion Pont has, and how quickly and thoroughly the problem was fixed, and also whether the county inspection process (and state health codes) are fair. But to try to address the actual inspection and then muddle it up to the point of whitewashing it isn't necessary.

Wow, could this article be any more one-sided and fawning of the restaurant owner? You practically make it sound as if it was the health inspector's fault for the problems. If only the health inspector hadn't shown up at a busy time, or on that particular day, or have been a little nicer, he/she wouldn't have found all those cockroaches? Really? Isn't it possible to be making great food and also not have completely effective pest control?

Either they were making a massive profit off of their burger, or the recession version is smaller than the original

So is Graswich saying that at the time he was at the Bee, all his columns and reporting were motivated by nothing but a drive for profits?

--- But Graswich’s fans include journalist R.V. Scheide, the news editor at the Sacramento News & Review. “I have always admired R.E. Graswich, especially after he said nice things about me once in his column,” Scheide said. “We also both shop at Swanberg on J’s, which has the best Hawaiian shirts in Northern California.” Scheide also observed that Graswich’s move to City Hall is one of several major career changes. “Throughout his career, Graswich has demonstrated an almost chameleon-like ability to transform himself: from sports columnist to city columnist to radio personality to KJ spokesperson,” Scheide said. ---- These sound like pretty back-handed compliments to me there.

What? They don't keep a record of when an investigator makes a request to a records keeper for a tape? How does that work exactly? And so how many times did investigators use images from tapes as evidence?

What reference? The Asian family? It's still in the headline.

oh come on, not a single Michael Jackson related event in town? Lame

Kind of an insensitive, lame lede.

OK, the headline display for this site just has to be fixed. In Firefox, the headline on the front page for this story reads: "Sacramento City Firefighters quickly knock down blaze allegedly" I realize it'll take some reworking of how the list of headlines is styled (unfortunately not as easy as changing the overflow attribute), but the front page just looks silly sometimes.

??? Beachdog gave some very useful and kind criticism that was very much on point, and useful to both writers and readers (who are presumably potential contributors in the future). Who cares who he is, he wasn't attacking the piece ideologically.

Maybe the reason why we never see Mounties eating doughnuts is bfeel like it should have been a scene in the Howard Stern movie or so

Two questions? That's it? What are the technical specs of this system? Will the cameras operate any better than the notoriously useless ones in San Francisco? And when the grant money runs out, how much per year will it take to operate this system? Is there audio recording attached to this system?

Is SacPress ever going to fix how its headlines on the front page get truncated? It looks simply embarrassing.

And could you clarify the claim "more people are injured and/or killed with their own handguns"? More people are hurt by their own handguns than those who don't own guns (which would be true, by definition)?

"You have the right to express yourself, but you don't really need a computer" There are many reasons to give pause on liberalizing conceal-and-carry laws, but Officer Lazark pretty much gives the most condescending one, which is, "I'm a police officer and it doesn't seem necessary for a non-police officer to have a gun." Of course it wouldn't seem necessary to a police officer whose purpose it is to protect the public and who has all the support of the state to exercise deadly force when he/she believes it necessary.

"We were commissioned to go to New York two days after the horrible event. On film we were able to secure photos of the deceased floating upward from where the building was. I believe you saw that photo, and I am happy to share it. " LOL