Excerpted from above: "As the newly-minted State Senate Republican leader told the Bee today, he will advocate for sharp reductions in state spending across-the-board" An idea whose time should have come a long time ago.

Mr. McCarty is taking a losing position here, which in the long run will not help his political ambitions. His statement about ammunition being easier to get than cold medicine is ludicrous, and what he says about keeping ammunition out of the hands of children makes no sense. Virtually all crimes are committed with handguns, and pistol ammunition sales have been restricted to adults for a long while. Our constitutional right to keep and bear arms implies access to ammunition. Restricting local access will just dry up a certain amount of sales tax revenue. Gun owners will buy elsewhere, or buy on the internet and have it delivered via UPS to their homes. Crimes are committed by a very small percentage of the population. Statistically, virtually all ammunition sales are made to law abiding citizens who do not commit crimes, but McCarty is fine with interfering with and impinging on the rights of these law-abiding ammunition purchasers.

I've been told that if the levee near downtown were to breach then the water would be up to 13 feet deep in the downtown area. A few years ago when the rivers were high there were some boils found in the levee behind the Rusty Duck restaurant near Discovery Park. Folks I know that work for the Dept. of Water Resources downtown moved their cars to the upper floors of the parking garage.......

It is not turkey season yet! It starts in California March 28th. There have been increasing number of urban turkeys in Sacramento for a few years. I saw 8 on the corner of 23rd and "L" sts. recently. I see them often in Land Park and around Sac State.