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.

Wrong! Occupy Sac has been there for a month, nobody has denied them anything. When does your right to assemble trample my rights to also be in the park? When your living there 24/7, that's the answer.

So Occupy Sac want the "right" to sleep in the park? If this law changes, imagine what will then happen to all our parks, homeless will make camps there week after week, religious groups will hold prayer vigils there for days on end. This law was created 30 years ago to stop people from over staying their welcome. Do we really want our city parks to be turned into encampments? This would be a mess, go occupy somewhere else like over at Capitol Park next to the Capitol.

Isn't La Raza Galería suppose to go out of business before the end of the year? La Raza gallery sometimes interacts with MEChA, the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). MEChA is a racist, irredentist organization like MEChA that sometimes works with La Raza. Do you condone their views. MEChA likes to go operate hand in hand with La Raza all the time, yet La Raza has never made in effort to condemn or distance themselves from these racist, separatist, irredentist organization called MEChA. Why?

Their hired by the New York political party Working Families. Nancy Pelosi would call them AstroTurf. http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/10/political-party-paying-occupy-wall-street-protesters/

What a bunch of losers. Up till this point, others who have felt the need to protest did so with out needing to take over a park or any other public area for 24 hours 7 days a week, but not this group. Their not even that big of a group to demand much of anything. I don't see them winning over many people with this kind of behavior. I wonder if these guys fell the same way Occupy L.A. who have said "Violence will be Necessary to Achieve Our Goals" http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/11/occupy-l-a-speaker-violence-will-be-necessary-to-achieve-our-goals/ If this were the tea party saying this it would be the headline of every story about them, but these are the darlings of the media so that won't happen.

You would think after renting a sound system for 17 years they could buy one and stop making payments.

What?

And we wonder why everyone else has to pay so much for their own house? It's because the city forces developers to build units for extremely-low income households BUT those cost to pay for it are actually passed onto everyone else who wants to buy one at market rate. Once again, screwing the productive class to take care of those who choose not to pull their own weight.

This was not the better side of Sacramento. This city already has enough image problems.

I'm NOW going to go out of my way to buy Israeli products.

So dramatic Henry, "the fight to help kids" and your washing cars.

I'm okay with paying less property taxes these days, it was not that long ago they (the government) was enjoying huge sums of property taxes flowing into the system and they could not spend it fast enough on higher salaries and over the top benefits, just because they could. Now the governments hurting like the rest of us but they want to take even more from us. When is enough ENOUGH? More cuts need to be made and more accountability needs to be done before I feel comfortable paying in more again. For all those who say we should pay more, why don't you show us by example and write a generous check to your favorite government

How much did these cost? If I remember right, our city is about to layoff 350 people... at least we have these to show for it.

There were lines out the door long before the show. I really miss the original location.

No tax needed Curmudgeon. The city needs to do it like it has done many other large projects that cost millions like the current airport expansion (Billion plus) , $751 million “Capitol Improvement Program” in 1987, both the Hyatt and Sheraton, and the convention center expansion in 1992. None of these projects went to a vote of the people. All these were done by raising bonds and backing it with public money. The bonds were paid off with funded user fees (where ticket buyer pay a few extra dollars each visit), hotel, car rental, parking, and concessions.