Yup, city workers seem to do just the minimum effort here.

Kwanza has hip hop soundtrack? Sign me up... NOT! Founder Maulana Karenga has served prison time for various crimes including murder.

HSR will send this state further into the red. The reporter failed to mention several events in the last few weeks that will help kill the project. * A lawsuit filed on behalf of the Kings County Board of Supervisors and two area farmers contends the scaled-down project fails to meet construction and financial requirements approved by California voters in 2008. The suit asks the courts to bar state officials from using state bond funds on the proposed initial section. * Republicans, who control the U.S. House of Representatives and oppose the rail plan, have scheduled a special Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing Dec. 15 solely to hear about the California project. * California's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office last week issued a report asserting that as is, the project can't tap into state funds because it doesn't meet requirements imposed by Proposition 1A, the 2008 ballot initiative. "The suit first claims that the Authority plans to spend billions constructing a NON HSR [high-speed rail] SYSTEM in the central valley — a conventional rail system that is not even electrified, and that the voters of California never intended for their money to be used for conventional NON HSR projects," assserted a news release accompanying the Nov. 14 lawsuit. Read more here: http://www.voiceofoc.org/state/artic...9bb2963f4.html

That's a sad looking tree.

WOW! You are clueless. You would think with over 1200 posts on SacPress, you might actually say something that makes since? In downtown, every night the police have to walk through all the parks to kick out the homeless and others. This rule was put in place 30 years ago because of chronic squatting, the parks had an increased crime rate from undesirables who prefer being a leach on society. Go back and do some research on WHY they made this law Rhonda, it was only 30 years and nearly everything you questioned would happen... happen.