Rhys02 comment-63489 2012-02-09T02:59:34Z 2012-02-09T02:59:34Z As much as I feel the SPOA is as big a part of the problem as the Council... it is nice to see someone can play in the mud with the Council and throw some back. Rhys02 2012-02-09T02:59:34Z Rhys02 comment-63216 2012-02-03T19:29:46Z 2012-02-03T19:29:46Z Doesn't anyone see the humor in all; this? McCarthy tosses out the citizen maps and germands a district to his liking. Looks like he should have looked at who owned property in his new district. This is sweet justice if there ever is any!!! Rhys02 2012-02-03T19:29:46Z Rhys02 comment-63110 2012-02-02T04:21:03Z 2012-02-02T04:21:03Z As SHRA was/is the biggest slum lord in Oak Park... couldn't hear better news for O.P. Maybe now Oak Park can become the vibrant hip neighborhood it is capable of being now it is free of the yoke of SHRA and the Oak Park PAC!!! Rhys02 2012-02-02T04:21:03Z Rhys02 comment-62994 2012-02-01T03:42:07Z 2012-02-01T03:42:07Z The main problem is the location of the garage.. as long as the surface parking is directly across from County Welfare...it will simply traded Caltrans workers parking in Co-Op space with county workers. They will never walk further to a garage when they can just park their cars in the surface lot. Quite frankly there is light rail and several bus lines that serve the county office. The county should be encouraging mass transit. I don't understand why so much is devoted to parking. The whole project really has a disappointingly suburban design and layout.. Rhys02 2012-02-01T03:42:07Z Rhys02 comment-62795 2012-01-27T03:48:32Z 2012-01-27T03:48:32Z So Oak Park will have another St Hope school which will not attract Oak Park residents anymore than Sacramento High does... Rhys02 2012-01-27T03:48:32Z Rhys02 comment-62764 2012-01-26T03:10:45Z 2012-01-26T03:10:45Z Maybe taxpayers won't be duped into paying $354,000 to construct each studio apartment anymore. Not sure why that is a bad thing when the average price of detached single family home is half that amount. Rhys02 2012-01-26T03:10:45Z Rhys02 comment-62760 2012-01-26T00:40:27Z 2012-01-26T00:40:27Z FINALLY!!! The place looked ready to open a month ago... If they did the tenant improvements then the owner leaving construction will be a loss to the local construction industry as they did a first rate, classy as all get out job!! Rhys02 2012-01-26T00:40:27Z Rhys02 comment-62633 2012-01-24T02:05:15Z 2012-01-24T02:05:15Z One wonders how much more damage she is planning to the city's future before she steps down. Rhys02 2012-01-24T02:05:15Z Rhys02 comment-62631 2012-01-24T01:26:48Z 2012-01-24T01:26:48Z Why doesn't the Sacramento Press follow journalistic standards and clearly identify editorials as such and stop the practice of presenting them as news articles. Regardless of the merit of any the the arguments... the writer clearly has an ax to grind...and that is what the editorial page and/or letters to the editor are for. Rhys02 2012-01-24T01:26:48Z Rhys02 comment-62413 2012-01-18T04:59:18Z 2012-01-18T04:59:18Z The author simply proved the point - the entire region has suffered due to the antiquated, dysfunctional form of city manager/weak mayor and weak council government in the largest urban center in the region.. Rhys02 2012-01-18T04:59:18Z Rhys02 comment-62034 2012-01-10T02:46:41Z 2012-01-10T02:46:41Z So Mr. Burg has moved from just being a reader contributor expressing his small town views to now pretending to be a journalist apparently to attract a wider audience for his small town views. The thrust of his article is exactly why we need a strong mayor who can get beyond soothing the egos of every person who deems himself to be a neighborhood activists. Rhys02 2012-01-10T02:46:41Z Rhys02 comment-61629 2011-12-23T02:08:48Z 2011-12-23T02:08:48Z I can only pray Sacramentans will realize the charter proposal and re-electing the mayor are two entire different and separate issues. I intend to vote for the charter and against KJ's re-election. Rhys02 2011-12-23T02:08:48Z Rhys02 comment-61624 2011-12-23T01:06:00Z 2011-12-23T01:06:00Z Might recognize the harm words can cause. I live down the street and I think this is the first business in this location that has a real chance of making it. For one thing their customers are as diverse as the neighborhood(could never be said for anything Kevin Johnson did in O.P.). They put out a hell of good product at a price point the neighborhood can afford. I suspect you haven't been in the actual neighborhood for 20 years or maybe you sage advice is based on what you see on TV. The area is a safe as any other neighborhood, I walk around at 10:30PM without any problem. All that said.. while one should go there for great barbeque it is their sides that rock!! They don't brag about having the best tater tots for nothing!! Rhys02 2011-12-23T01:06:00Z Rhys02 comment-61487 2011-12-20T01:31:59Z 2011-12-20T01:31:59Z Would feel a lot better if the picture of his supporters more accurately represented District 2. In all honesty the central problem with the City Council has been it is made up of neighborhood activists with narrow interests, who despite their honorable intentions never grow beyond them Just as neighborhoods benefit from diversity so would the City Council. Rhys02 2011-12-20T01:31:59Z Rhys02 comment-61306 2011-12-14T01:53:18Z 2011-12-14T01:53:18Z I suspect the author would never be considered a 'risk taker'.. Simple economics is the arena and surrounding development will generate increased property. sales and hotel tax revenue for the city far more than the parking ever will. Forgetting the Kings (most arenas pack in more folks for concerts than they do for basketball) it will bring new dollars from outside of Sacramento with the new ability to host large conventions. And if anyone can get past their Sactown is a Cowtown mind set, the proposed operators will bring Sacramento parking into the 21st century. i would like to be able to find available street or covered parking with an app instead of circling blocks forever spewing toxic gases into the air.. but I guess smog is a better alternative than a smart business decision. Rhys02 2011-12-14T01:53:18Z Rhys02 comment-60994 2011-12-07T02:30:10Z 2011-12-07T02:30:10Z This should have been done years ago!!! Less than 150 students at Sac High are from Oak Park.. Sac High has not been part of Oak Park since Kevin Johnson engineered stealing it from the neighborhood. If you look at their proposal to the county, St Hope is all about creating race based schools. They have never understood that EVERY child who come from a home with a single parent with little education is at risk and deserves the kind of support program at St Hope. Instead they would rather their student develop and learn in an insular environment that guarantees Sac high students are being cheated and will fail when they enter the real world... all to benefit the agenda of St Hope founders. St Hope talks about how many of their students get into college... but enough time has past to look at the numbers that have actually graduated college. Rhys02 2011-12-07T02:30:10Z Rhys02 comment-60786 2011-12-01T01:43:43Z 2011-12-01T01:43:43Z Anyone who still drives to the Bay Area is crazy. It is both cheaper (when considering gas and parking) to take the train and BART into SF and now considerably more comfortable. One potential benefit is maybe the passengers that feel the need for everyone else to hear their phone conversations will now be too engrossed in surfing the web or IM their friends to be on their phones. Rhys02 2011-12-01T01:43:43Z Rhys02 comment-60785 2011-12-01T01:40:34Z 2011-12-01T01:40:34Z If KJ cannot deal with basic issues like this he does not deserve re-election. The long term solution is to privatize garbage pickup, which will negate the contract as the city will no longer be the entity collecting and disposing of the garbage. I hope every city employee in this department understands the Council has just cast the dye which will out source their jobs, Rhys02 2011-12-01T01:40:34Z Rhys02 comment-60707 2011-11-29T03:59:13Z 2011-11-29T03:59:13Z Hate to say it...but if the city didn't require first level retail in almost every new building, there might have fewer tenants that aren't able to pay their rent.. One wonders if the city planners every walk the city core...everything other space is either a parking garage or empty retail... or do they just drive their Beamers back to their gated suburban enclaves? Some day city planners and the Council will realize these businesses need more than a lunch crowd and start seriously working on market rate housing downtown Rhys02 2011-11-29T03:59:13Z Rhys02 comment-60703 2011-11-29T00:54:56Z 2011-11-29T00:54:56Z Found it interesting the stores had no problem with folks abandoning their kids at home to 'camp' out for some 'loss leader' 'bottom of the line' TV or other 'bargain'...but had issues with the Occupiers. Rhys02 2011-11-29T00:54:56Z Rhys02 comment-60549 2011-11-23T03:48:47Z 2011-11-23T03:48:47Z I fully agree with KJ that you don't run a city of almost 500K with an unelected city manager...but at the same time KJ is the last person I would vote for as a mayor under the proposed system. I hope voters keep the two issues separate...a strong mayor should be independent of whether KJ should be re-elected. Rhys02 2011-11-23T03:48:47Z Rhys02 comment-60545 2011-11-23T02:17:48Z 2011-11-23T02:17:48Z The Urban Forestry staff should be reassigned to the police department... as they share the same view of their role is to dictate what they want done rather than recognize they are only employees of the citizens of Sacramento.... But this is the same staff that allowed developers in most of the new neighborhoods to plant crepe myrtles and other decorative trees as street trees which are supposed to at some point to actually provide shade. This must also be the same staff responsible for planting all those bird toilets...oops I mean evergreen Magnolias.... Rhys02 2011-11-23T02:17:48Z Rhys02 comment-60471 2011-11-22T01:21:53Z 2011-11-22T01:21:53Z more specifically I have a bridge from Broadway to West Sac to sell you..... If there is any more reason to proceed on the arena without the Maloofs.. I am not sure how it could be shown.. Suggestion for a corporate sponsor... provide the Maloofs with free moving vans for their move to La La land.... Rhys02 2011-11-22T01:21:53Z Rhys02 comment-60421 2011-11-20T00:02:51Z 2011-11-20T00:02:51Z This is not 'free'... it is being paid for with the money I pay in state taxes, the money I pay in federal taxes and the money SMUD collects from me as a customer... Rhys02 2011-11-20T00:02:51Z Rhys02 comment-59819 2011-11-08T01:04:42Z 2011-11-08T01:04:42Z With due respect to the ingenuity of Parks.... this is just a 'band aid on a open sore which is getting larger by the year' until the City Council addresses law enforcement salaries and benefits and the unfunded liabilities of all city pensions. Rhys02 2011-11-08T01:04:42Z Rhys02 comment-59458 2011-11-02T04:28:04Z 2011-11-02T04:28:04Z I see Mr Schenirer is either drawing from his experience on the school board or learned a trick or two from Heather Fargo ...talk and study something to death and hopefully it will go away.. Rhys02 2011-11-02T04:28:04Z Rhys02 comment-59368 2011-11-01T03:26:18Z 2011-11-01T03:26:18Z If I was Ms. Sheedy I would not be too smug about this complaint, this huy might be on to something. Next let's take a look at the police and fire personnel who are only to willing to appear in ads in official uniforms to support their political sycophants. Rhys02 2011-11-01T03:26:18Z Rhys02 comment-59361 2011-10-31T23:59:15Z 2011-10-31T23:59:15Z I thought the Governor was dismantling this agency?? Only the SHRA has less to show for all the years it has controlled key properties. Downtown and midtown would look like Portland or San Diego if it wasn't for CADA sitting on the properties it controls. Rhys02 2011-10-31T23:59:15Z Rhys02 comment-59249 2011-10-28T00:23:19Z 2011-10-28T00:23:19Z Well Sheedy here is another opportunity to gum up the works... Rhys02 2011-10-28T00:23:19Z Rhys02 comment-59248 2011-10-28T00:21:59Z 2011-10-28T00:21:59Z Let me see...this is the result of years of thought and community activity and at the same time, the training program focuses on an agreement UC Med entered into this week. Btw doesn't he know UC Med is no longer in Oak Park?? If the councilman wants to do something positive for Oak Park focus on getting rid of the new generation of bottom feeding slum lords picking up empty homes for a dime and get some market rate housing so there is a balanced mix to the neighborhood. Rhys02 2011-10-28T00:21:59Z Rhys02 comment-59193 2011-10-27T02:21:57Z 2011-10-27T02:21:57Z The value of trick or treating in your own neighborhood, is you get to meet your neighbors.. Then the next time you see them you exchange pleasantries and before you know it the neighborhood is more cohesive and stronger. I resent the schools, businesses and shopping ctrs scaring the kids and their parents into letting them think meeting ones neighbors is dangerous and something to be avoided. Rhys02 2011-10-27T02:21:57Z Rhys02 comment-59192 2011-10-27T00:48:33Z 2011-10-27T00:48:33Z Doesn't SHRA have a fiduciary obligation to get a 'good price' in the first place. All this will do is attract the same bottom feeding developers that put up these substandard homes to begin with. They in turn will flip them to another bottom feeder who will use it as a cash cow and rent it into the ground. Want to change these neighborhoods? Give Habitat for Humanity or Sacramento Housing Alliance clients (1st time home buyers) 'first look'... OMG that might make sense, what a silly idea.. This plan is short sighted and perpetuates the condition of the neighborhood and nothing to improve it... although it will definitely improve the bank balances of the developers. Rhys02 2011-10-27T00:48:33Z Rhys02 comment-58927 2011-10-20T05:27:20Z 2011-10-20T05:27:20Z Surprised the NIMBY's in Land Park didn't succeed in getting the most logical crossing, at Broadway, eliminated. Rhys02 2011-10-20T05:27:20Z Rhys02 comment-58764 2011-10-18T00:14:14Z 2011-10-18T00:14:14Z Cars, cars, cars... a panacea Heather Fargo would champion.. Nothing will turn K Street around until the city focuses on increasing market rate housing in the downtown and midtown. It can begin by hurrying the closure of CADA who in forty years didn't build as many housing units (of any type) as Portland or San Diego did in a single year. Rhys02 2011-10-18T00:14:14Z Rhys02 comment-58643 2011-10-14T02:12:05Z 2011-10-14T02:12:05Z FINALLY!!! A real honest to goodness choice. Up to this point the announced or suggested pool of candidates consisted of members of the 'political class' or single issue activists. It looked like it would be more of the same but with new names. Rhys02 2011-10-14T02:12:05Z Rhys02 comment-58486 2011-10-12T02:00:27Z 2011-10-12T02:00:27Z What in God's name justifies the city charging a $9,000 fee on such a small project... No wonder there are so many empty storefronts throughout Sacramento. Rather than bleeding business owners upfront, the city might take the long view and realize they will take in far more in increased sales and other taxes by getting these businesses up and open for customers. Rhys02 2011-10-12T02:00:27Z Rhys02 comment-58404 2011-10-10T02:51:40Z 2011-10-10T02:51:40Z Wish Mr. Acree would consider running for mayor. He is the only public official who seems to have a vision greater than just what interest lobbies will accept and what is really lacking in other officials.. the will and drive to deliver. Rhys02 2011-10-10T02:51:40Z Rhys02 comment-58369 2011-10-08T02:40:05Z 2011-10-08T02:40:05Z I guess it was to far for the reporter to venture... but Old Soul in Oak Park at almost any hour it is open is full of McGeorge students. Rhys02 2011-10-08T02:40:05Z Rhys02 comment-58368 2011-10-08T02:36:27Z 2011-10-08T02:36:27Z While Kevin Johnson's police are arresting folks in Sacramento, Los Angeles mayor donated rain ponchos to the demonstrators and the LA city council will take up a resolution in support of the protestors. Rhys02 2011-10-08T02:36:27Z Rhys02 comment-58310 2011-10-07T04:58:54Z 2011-10-07T04:58:54Z At least you are more polite than Pannell :-) Rhys02 2011-10-07T04:58:54Z Rhys02 comment-58309 2011-10-07T04:50:54Z 2011-10-07T04:50:54Z What are these labor 'leaders' planning to do... a coronation or will a simple anointing suffice? Looking forward to knowing who they endorse so I and anyone else in Sacramento who is tired of one or two labor unions bankrupting the city know who not to vote for. Rhys02 2011-10-07T04:50:54Z Rhys02 comment-58144 2011-10-04T04:14:28Z 2011-10-04T04:14:28Z Capitol Athletic is right down the street and I think if a member were ever to do what you observed, they would have their membership cancelled and it might be suggested 24 Hour Fitness would be a better fit.. CAC is the only club in town that washes your gym clothes (no excuses you forgot to put them in the car) and closes down two weeks a year for a top to bottom cleaning of every nook and cranny. Rhys02 2011-10-04T04:14:28Z Rhys02 comment-58059 2011-09-30T02:45:03Z 2011-09-30T02:45:03Z Crime in Sacramento is down 18%... why are we hiring more police officers? I generally think the Tea Party types are wacko...but when I read this I can understand their frustration. Why should a taxpayer in Nebraska being forced to pay for the salaries of Sacramento police officers?? Rhys02 2011-09-30T02:45:03Z Rhys02 comment-58041 2011-09-29T01:14:33Z 2011-09-29T01:14:33Z Ms. Sheedy, try brown bagging like many city taxpayers HAVE to and you won't have to worry about choices you do or don't have in city vending machines.... Rhys02 2011-09-29T01:14:33Z Rhys02 comment-57882 2011-09-27T00:28:03Z 2011-09-27T00:28:03Z I thought the Governor had gotten rid of CADA. The article written by CADA's press officer says they built 800 housing units since the 1970's. That is less than Portland, San Diego and countless other cities have added to their downtown core in a SINGLE year. In retrospect it looks like CADA has been holding Sacramento back, not moving it forward. In any event the State if it every grows again will expand to north to the Railyards. CADA needs to sell all of this excess property. Rhys02 2011-09-27T00:28:03Z Rhys02 comment-57796 2011-09-24T04:36:02Z 2011-09-24T04:36:02Z Keep in mind more nations have gone to war and people died because of religion.. May sound hyperbolic in this context but there is a reason for separation of church and state. Where was all the rage when the Mormons, Catholics and Cap Christian Ctr were injecting their homophobic hate views into civil law?. Rhys02 2011-09-24T04:36:02Z Rhys02 comment-57783 2011-09-24T00:05:57Z 2011-09-24T00:05:57Z Wish them all the luck.... now if the city council would focus on bringing residents into downtown, instead of cars on K Street..they may have a chance at being successful. Rhys02 2011-09-24T00:05:57Z Rhys02 comment-57426 2011-09-18T01:28:43Z 2011-09-18T01:28:43Z Why is it the articles are always written AFTER the event??? How about letting us know beforehand.... Rhys02 2011-09-18T01:28:43Z Rhys02 comment-57133 2011-09-13T05:58:49Z 2011-09-13T05:58:49Z Unless this group of religious leaders connect and join with business groups... these council members will think they were bitten by a gnat and move on... Rhys02 2011-09-13T05:58:49Z Rhys02 comment-56985 2011-09-10T02:28:48Z 2011-09-10T02:28:48Z Mr Shirey... the area has been able to attract businesses..look at Folsom/El Dorado, Roseville/Lincoln and West Sacramento.... just NOT in the city of Sacramento... If you are puzzled as to why this is...take a good hard look at your new bosses... Rhys02 2011-09-10T02:28:48Z Rhys02 comment-56917 2011-09-09T01:42:14Z 2011-09-09T01:42:14Z A critical key to their success, even in a long recession is that they OWN their building. If there is one thing the city could to keep midtown from being mall'd over by natl chains willing to pay the every escalating rents property owners are exacting...it is to create a fund that would guarantee commercial loans by businesses that are locally owned, been at the same location for more than five years (i.e demonstrated they can make mortgage payments) and only for the purpose of purchasing the premises they occupy. Rhys02 2011-09-09T01:42:14Z Rhys02 comment-56752 2011-09-07T04:27:39Z 2011-09-07T04:27:39Z The food trucks were great!! The art work set a standard this year that will be hard to match in upcoming years. The downer was the need to amplify the bands so one would need to cover ones ears ...if you were in the Downtown Plaza. Why must these bands ramp it up so loud when they are playing to an audience in area of no more than 150 ft by 150 ft. Made what otherwise could have been a quality and relaxing experience -- jarring and unpleasant. Rhys02 2011-09-07T04:27:39Z Rhys02 comment-56661 2011-09-06T00:34:46Z 2011-09-06T00:34:46Z Hi Jon.... everything you are saying makes perfect sense to everyone except the City Council. Recommend getting together with the group of religious leaders which met this week and the Sacramento 60 to put an amendment to the city charter on the next ballot. It should do two things. 1. Take redistricting from the city council and set up a citizen's committee ala the state commission except, since these positions are supposedly nonpartisan no requirement to balance among the two parties. Neither the Council or any mayor could participate in committee selections. They would be filled by competitive application. 2. If the charter amendment passes, a citizen committee would be immediately empaneled for one time only to draw council districts based on the 2010 census. Thereafter it would like all others after census years. Rhys02 2011-09-06T00:34:46Z Rhys02 comment-56541 2011-09-02T23:36:29Z 2011-09-02T23:36:29Z Channel 9 on Surewest and 108 on Comcast. Rhys02 2011-09-02T23:36:29Z Rhys02 comment-56500 2011-09-02T05:09:13Z 2011-09-02T05:09:13Z While almost everyone will find the committee's options thoughtful and doable... the ones most likely not to be able to comprehend them are members of the city council. The Business Journal ran a story today where the ex-mayor of Pittsburgh asked the new Sac city manager why a city that has $800 million in annual revenue can't seem to do anything. Of course the dirty secret is almost everyone of those dollars have been sequestered by union contracts to pay off law enforcement. I think the ex-mayor's point says everything about this city council and for that matter city staff and is why everyone should be worried the Think Big committee's work will be for naught. Rhys02 2011-09-02T05:09:13Z Rhys02 comment-56415 2011-09-01T04:01:39Z 2011-09-01T04:01:39Z While KJ and the Council were preening for the cameras for a project they had nothing to do with, a construction crew was and has been busy for some weeks at least the Watt Ave site. The construction crew for the Oak Park site remained unemployed while the politicians arranged their schedules. Rhys02 2011-09-01T04:01:39Z Rhys02 comment-56408 2011-09-01T02:39:24Z 2011-09-01T02:39:24Z If Mr Miry wanted a destination spot for Sacramento...he should have designed one. All these tens of millions of dollars we have thrown down this rat hole...and what do we get... more housing for the down and out and empty retail space... There is a reason Downtown Plaza is empty...it is because the city instead of focusing on market rate housing and building a customer base for businesses to cater to, instead has catered to empty store fronts and below market rate housing. Rhys02 2011-09-01T02:39:24Z Rhys02 comment-55851 2011-08-25T00:56:23Z 2011-08-25T00:56:23Z Quite frankly as can be seen by Burg's comment anything KJ does, even if it has merit will be opposed. It would be best if a citizens group without ties to KJ take this challenge on. It will remove the distractions the anti-KJ crowd uses to defeat anything not in their personal self-interest. On the Federal level the far-right Republicans are the party of self-interest and no to everything.. at the local and state level it is the Democrats which are the party of self-interest and no to everything. Rhys02 2011-08-25T00:56:23Z Rhys02 comment-55335 2011-08-17T23:56:20Z 2011-08-17T23:56:20Z I listened to McCarthy politi-speak a rationalization for this move. How pathetic!! Regardless of how this turns out.. we need a change to the city charter to strip the city council of any involvement in the redistricting process.. have a citizen committee draw the line...judges...whomever. This should be the first priority for ALL Sacramentans. Rhys02 2011-08-17T23:56:20Z Rhys02 comment-55212 2011-08-17T03:02:34Z 2011-08-17T03:02:34Z Is there some policy which prohibits Sac Press reporters from identifying the location of the business they are reviewing? It's who, when and WHERE folks.. Rhys02 2011-08-17T03:02:34Z Rhys02 comment-54970 2011-08-12T01:40:30Z 2011-08-12T01:40:30Z Oak Park has been under the thumb of SHRA for over forty years and look what it got. It got to watch development in West Sac and other challenged neighborhoods proceed full steam...while we got the Food Bank doubling in size. This is the agency that just approved not just one but two projects where taxpayers will pay over $300,000 per SRO unit.... and this city council UNANIMOUSLY gave it a vote of confidence??? Rhys02 2011-08-12T01:40:30Z Rhys02 comment-54919 2011-08-11T00:50:32Z 2011-08-11T00:50:32Z Looks like we need to do at the city level what was done at the state level. Amend the city charter and take redistricting out of the self-serving paws of politicians. In the immediate future, we can vote the council members who voted for the council's map out at the next opportunity. They may have drawn the maps to serve their interests...but that is no guarantee they will represent the mess. Rhys02 2011-08-11T00:50:32Z Rhys02 comment-54832 2011-08-10T03:34:14Z 2011-08-10T03:34:14Z If Sacramentans would ever stop mouthing off about what they don't like about a project, but focus on something they do like... we would get a lot more done, built and in the end everyone would benefit. Rhys02 2011-08-10T03:34:14Z Rhys02 comment-54592 2011-08-06T01:33:57Z 2011-08-06T01:33:57Z Why isn't the owner looking forward to folks from Curtis and Oak Parks, Southside Park? Land Park is not the only neighborhood in the area and at the moment they are the NIMBY's doing whatever they can to keep the Broadway corridor a street they cross on their way to State jobs and a street they are desperate to keep as boundary they use to keep less desireables out o ftheir precious neighborhood Rhys02 2011-08-06T01:33:57Z Rhys02 comment-54440 2011-08-04T00:58:34Z 2011-08-04T00:58:34Z As much as I agree with the position that Israel is a defacto occupying army in Palestine opening practicing genocide I do not think the Co-op should boycott products from Israel. I will look to see that I personally am not buying any product from Israel ...but this is not something the Board should impose on all members. Thanks for the very detailed article.. I now know who I will not be voting for. btw.. why isn't the Co-op owning instead to leasing... a mortgage payment has far more future certainty than the whims of a landlord. Rhys02 2011-08-04T00:58:34Z Rhys02 comment-54334 2011-08-02T03:15:39Z 2011-08-02T03:15:39Z This is why the Sacramento Press should review comments before allowing them to post. I wonder how much clothes888 is paying SP the use of its space to advertise. Rhys02 2011-08-02T03:15:39Z Rhys02 comment-53774 2011-07-22T19:19:36Z 2011-07-22T19:19:36Z This is scary... He heads an agency that thinsk spending $300,000+ on a single occupancy unit SRO (what used to be called and 'efficiency apartment) is okay' and he is going to take over an almost bankrupt city?? Still would like to know what the problem with Gus was...other than I guess he couldn't bend over far enough for the elected officials.. Rhys02 2011-07-22T19:19:36Z Rhys02 comment-53400 2011-07-15T01:55:40Z 2011-07-15T01:55:40Z There is poetic justice here. The little guy is replacing a business that doesn't understand getting bigger for the sake of getting bigger is not a virtue. Old Soul replaced Starbucks at 40 Acres and is hugely successful. Peets on 20th & J is beating the pants off the nearby Starbucks @ 19th & J. Now if small retailers can take on WalMart... some balance and justice will return. Rhys02 2011-07-15T01:55:40Z Rhys02 comment-53331 2011-07-14T03:16:41Z 2011-07-14T03:16:41Z What Mr. Jones (is this the same Davey Jones who was a city councilman??) failed to mention is that redevelopment dollars are tax dollars that would go to the city and schools if they were not redirected to SHRA. Given the option between spending over $300,000 to build an individual SRO unit or keeping city pools open and the parks maintained... the question is why weren't redevelopment agencies killed decades ago. Mr. Jones also failed to mention the governor is dissolving CADA. Not only will that put prime downtown real estate back on the tax rolls.. but when one considers CADA only built 800 housing units in its 40 years.. its demise is more good news for Sacramento. Rhys02 2011-07-14T03:16:41Z Rhys02 comment-53262 2011-07-13T01:25:56Z 2011-07-13T01:25:56Z Ten years from now the City Council will spend several million more to redesign K Street again... bemoaning the expected traffic never materialized (but did cut down on light rail use as it made the train slower than walking) Residences, MARKET rate housing is the only solution...and until this city council tells ACORN and other special interests to take a back seat it will never happen. It is amazing (and pathetic) to realize in the forty years CADA has been managing development in the downtown core it has built fewer housing units than Portland or San Diego have done each and every year!! Rhys02 2011-07-13T01:25:56Z Rhys02 comment-53261 2011-07-13T00:48:07Z 2011-07-13T00:48:07Z it's a wabbit... a big red wabbit.... Rhys02 2011-07-13T00:48:07Z Rhys02 comment-53179 2011-07-12T01:23:45Z 2011-07-12T01:23:45Z ....and so do most of the LOCAL farmers markets. You can either buy your produce directly from the farmer who grew if...or from someone who purchased what couldn't be sold to a mainline retailer from a warehouse in Oakland or a loading dock off Broadway.... your choice. Rhys02 2011-07-12T01:23:45Z Rhys02 comment-53178 2011-07-12T01:14:26Z 2011-07-12T01:14:26Z SHRA's track record is giving K.J. $5,000,000 in forgivable loans and properties so he could set up his mother and brother in businesses with marginal economic value. SHRA is current spending in excess of $300,000 per unit to build SROs in not just one but two different projects.. Oak Park would have been better off if it had to take its development ideas to the Council and shows they had real value. As it is Oak Park has wasted almost 40 years of tax revenue to feed the egos of a few. Rhys02 2011-07-12T01:14:26Z Rhys02 comment-53092 2011-07-09T01:18:44Z 2011-07-09T01:18:44Z Have you ever been in the Co-op...much less a member? I have never read a more misinformed, indeed plain dumb comment. Rhys02 2011-07-09T01:18:44Z Rhys02 comment-52857 2011-07-05T03:10:07Z 2011-07-05T03:10:07Z Last time I looked membership in thew Co-op is voluntary... If Ms Coulter doesn't like what the board is doing, she has other options... It is the military she is free to leave at any time... btw...does the Co-op even purchase anything from Israel? This sounds like a cause looking for an issue. Rhys02 2011-07-05T03:10:07Z Rhys02 comment-52784 2011-06-30T22:30:26Z 2011-06-30T22:30:26Z One can't help get the vibe that with this project, the expansion of the Crocker and the favorable report on the financial impact of a downtown arena, Sacramento, in spite of decades of missed opportunities by the city council, is finally realizing its potential. Rhys02 2011-06-30T22:30:26Z Rhys02 comment-52725 2011-06-29T00:55:36Z 2011-06-29T00:55:36Z Giving the fire department more tax dollars (even if it is Fed money, it is still from taxpayers) for a business where it uses the power of government to ban any competition and seriously contributes to the inflation of medical costs in this country...is not a reason to cheer. The San Mateo Grand Jury noting that just four percent of calls to its fire department actually involved a fire, said letting private industry do ambulance runs was the biggest thing that county could do to restore its fiscal health. Considering the stranglehold the Fire Department has on Sacramento's budget... we should do the same. Rhys02 2011-06-29T00:55:36Z Rhys02 comment-52487 2011-06-23T02:08:21Z 2011-06-23T02:08:21Z Salvation Army is the rare example of a charity (with an equal nod to Women's Wellspring Ctr) that improves the neighborhood unlike several other obvious 'charities. Rhys02 2011-06-23T02:08:21Z Rhys02 comment-52446 2011-06-22T02:21:49Z 2011-06-22T02:21:49Z Federal law enforcement gets 1.5% per year of services, have to contribute to the plan and are required to be under Social Security. Their eventual pension level rests heavily on whether they contribute to their 401K plan. What makes Sac City police officers more high and mighty than the FBI, DEA or Customs.. all of whose jobs I suspect are more dangerous than city police who spend much of their time twisting the arm of the city council. Rhys02 2011-06-22T02:21:49Z Rhys02 comment-52340 2011-06-19T02:55:27Z 2011-06-19T02:55:27Z If these officers are taking personal time, then best of luck...otherwise, they need to get back to their duties and whoever authorized official time at a minimum should receive a disciplinary action.. To often law enforcement is using official time and taxpayer equipment to show up at far flung funerals (which now out-dazzle a President's funeral) and monument dedications. Rhys02 2011-06-19T02:55:27Z Rhys02 comment-52084 2011-06-14T05:43:27Z 2011-06-14T05:43:27Z Who are visibly ,missing from this list is the business community. Where are the reps from Raley's, Waste Management. one of the major law firms and etc.... The list is in the main a list of politicos and hanger - ons from St Hope. Rhys02 2011-06-14T05:43:27Z Rhys02 comment-52079 2011-06-14T00:38:28Z 2011-06-14T00:38:28Z Give it one day before the gang bangers claim it as their own turf. There is a new spot in Sacramento to buy your drugs and settle scores. Rhys02 2011-06-14T00:38:28Z Rhys02 comment-51931 2011-06-10T02:27:10Z 2011-06-10T02:27:10Z As a long time member of the Coop am hardly surprised there are folks with time on their hands to pursue this issue. Probably the same folks who donate to the Sierra Club and yet idle their huge SUVs just outside the entrance waiting for a spot, while there are plenty of spots twenty feet away. The real question is...for an institution that understands it is just as important as how far something travels as much as whether it is organic...what in God's name do they need from Israel to justify the carbon cost of shipping it here??? Rhys02 2011-06-10T02:27:10Z Rhys02 comment-51854 2011-06-08T23:56:38Z 2011-06-08T23:56:38Z This so much theater... It is already obvious the city will find other taxpayers (i.e. the feds) to rehire a good number of the cops. When the city outsources ambulance services, the fire department goes to three man crews and the police stop sending half the shift to respond to a shooting that is over and done by the time 911 is called and BOTH departments fully fund their benefit and retirement benefits at least to the extent a low paid WalMart employee must... then I will start wringing my hands about potential layoffs. Fire and Police have watched for years as the city laid off every possible city employee, other than them and said nothing and made no labor concessions to save any of these jobs. They now account for 82% of the general budget...a percentage greater than what forced Vallejo into bankruptcy. If they don't watch out the city coffers will be the next cadaver... Rhys02 2011-06-08T23:56:38Z Rhys02 comment-51365 2011-05-31T00:01:13Z 2011-05-31T00:01:13Z This attorney' just successfully green-mailed the county for $450,000. Has anybody asked how much went back to the homeless he claims to fight for? How many tents has he bought with all this money he is taking from ordinary taxpayers? Rhys02 2011-05-31T00:01:13Z Rhys02 comment-51110 2011-05-25T04:20:54Z 2011-05-25T04:20:54Z Let's really solve the issue... mandate 3 person crew and outsource the ambulance service. Rhys02 2011-05-25T04:20:54Z Rhys02 comment-50928 2011-05-21T15:46:56Z 2011-05-21T15:46:56Z Nice to see Kevin Johnson using another asset he stole from Oak Park (Woodruff/Guild Theater) for his personal uses. Rhys02 2011-05-21T15:46:56Z Rhys02 comment-50797 2011-05-19T02:28:59Z 2011-05-19T02:28:59Z Interesting how the police can field hundreds when their bloated budget is at risk...but can't find a single officer to respond to calls. Rhys02 2011-05-19T02:28:59Z Rhys02 comment-50432 2011-05-11T01:57:47Z 2011-05-11T01:57:47Z Every city employee who is laid off should personally thank a firefighter whose refusal to go to three man crews, contribute to pension and health benefits is directly the reason for his or her layoff notice. I am amazed that year after year city employees lose their jobs without a whimper and without holding the men and women of the police and fire departments accountable..... just amazing!! Rhys02 2011-05-11T01:57:47Z Rhys02 comment-50136 2011-05-04T01:45:58Z 2011-05-04T01:45:58Z I just love how this City Council works... if one of its members gets his or her shorts in a bind, then the city is to write a new ordinance to eliminate the city council members personal annoyance. This city council is just as worthless as the past councils. I hope the business community and others are prepping candidates now to turn these do-nothings out of office. They are an embarrassment to every citizen of the city. Rhys02 2011-05-04T01:45:58Z Rhys02 comment-50072 2011-05-03T00:34:44Z 2011-05-03T00:34:44Z This is the worse of all available options!! The last thing we need is the Maloofs with their hand out while the area puts together an arena plan. Either let the team move, or sell the team to Brulte... but how ever it is done, get rid of the Maloofs. Rhys02 2011-05-03T00:34:44Z Rhys02 comment-49935 2011-04-29T04:20:53Z 2011-04-29T04:20:53Z Police and Fire have only their own bloated benefits packages and antiquated work rules to blame... It is about time they took a hit instead of the rest of the city workers paying for their excesses. Rhys02 2011-04-29T04:20:53Z Rhys02 comment-49838 2011-04-27T05:10:01Z 2011-04-27T05:10:01Z What do you do when the slumlord is SHRA... the largest and most evasive slumlord in Oak Park. Rhys02 2011-04-27T05:10:01Z Rhys02 comment-49424 2011-04-21T00:24:51Z 2011-04-21T00:24:51Z If Sacramento has any sense, it will let the Kings move (in fact pack the vans for them) and save all this community and corporate good will for a new team with real owners. The last thing Sacramento needs is to be negotiating with the Maloofs over a new arena. Rhys02 2011-04-21T00:24:51Z Rhys02 comment-49299 2011-04-18T03:50:48Z 2011-04-18T03:50:48Z The reporter apparently missed the sweet potato fries at Cornerstone... Rhys02 2011-04-18T03:50:48Z Rhys02 comment-49188 2011-04-15T03:22:16Z 2011-04-15T03:22:16Z I was just at Downtown Plaza at about 4:30PM and about 100 school kids were coming down the elevator, from what I am sure was not a math or science class. Get back to basics; stop trying to be parents and maybe someone will care what happens to these budgets. The waste and bloat is there for everyone to see. Rhys02 2011-04-15T03:22:16Z Rhys02 comment-49187 2011-04-15T03:15:28Z 2011-04-15T03:15:28Z These repainted lanes are jokes.. All they are lanes for residents to put out their garbage cans without losing any parking spaces and for FedEx and UPS to double park without getting a ticket. Rhys02 2011-04-15T03:15:28Z Rhys02 comment-49123 2011-04-13T22:53:32Z 2011-04-13T22:53:32Z The Railyards are off to a great start... a criminal courthouse and a SRO hotel (which I am sure will have facilities for the homeless to park their stolen carts). But on the bright side... will be spending close to a half billion for the court house and $317,000 per SRO.. I am sure they will be classy. Rhys02 2011-04-13T22:53:32Z Rhys02 comment-48807 2011-04-07T05:12:45Z 2011-04-07T05:12:45Z I finds this interesting... 1. The Utility department has been getting rate increases (and is scheduled for more) far in excess of inflation. 2. The City's general fund had to stop stealing millions in excess payments the Utility Dept was raking in. 3. Most of the city has converted to can pickup which is cheaper (basically those areas of the city developed like suburbs). So how does the city justify needing to increase rates even more? Since this City Council seems as derelict in its oversight as the previous councils, a grand jury investigation should be done of the Utility Dept, from top to bottom. Rhys02 2011-04-07T05:12:45Z Rhys02 comment-48674 2011-04-05T02:02:21Z 2011-04-05T02:02:21Z I love how this City Council's idea of making something more accessible and widespread is to regulate it and add fees to what has up to this point been a informal use of a private land owners land. I can see some of the gardens currently being operated by non-profits closed down because the landowners who allow use of the property don't want to deal with the city and its fees Rhys02 2011-04-05T02:02:21Z