Dear Mr. Mayor, I know that you have been busy with the election and all, and then the wedding plans, and  finding a place for Sacramento’s homeless, and keeping the Kings in town, the rail yard deal,etc. etc. etc. But Dude; you gotta proof read the emails your vast media machine puts out. They got some of it wrong. I did a quick Big Education Ape touchup: what do you think? your pal, Mike Correction: Vote for  Community! Dear Neighbor, This email isn't going to bore you with the standard "here's why Election Day is important to democracy" lecture. If you're reading this, you know Election Day matters. What you may not know is why Tuesday means so much down the ticket -- where the sch

Boxing returned to Sacramento Saturday night with Battle of the Badges VII, an annual charity boxing event featuring correctional officers, police officers and firefighters from the Northern California area. Fifteen bouts of three two-minute rounds took place in front of an estimated 2,000-3,000 boxing fans at Memorial Auditorium, benefiting such charities as the Firefighters Burn Institute, Sac Fallen Officers Resource Fund, The Sacramento Sheriff’s Toy Project and Sacramento SPCA. Some agencies represented in the matches included the Sacramento and Vallejo fire departments; the Sacramento, Davis and Woodland police departments; the California Highway Patrol and California State Prison,

Sacramento consulting firm Sjoberg Evashenk Consulting Inc. will audit the city’s Community Development Department, the City Council decided Thursday. The vote to hire the firm was unanimous. Four candidates were interviewed by city staff for the job.  Jorge Oseguera, city auditor, wrote in a report to the council that Sjoberg was the “highest ranking competitor and most responsive bidder.”  The city will pay Sjoberg as much as $66,424 for the audit, according to Oseguera’s report. That amount is within the auditor’s budget, Oseguera said. The idea of hiring Sjoberg drew criticism from some of Mayor Kevin Johnson’s critics. In recent comments on The Sacramento Press, the mayor's criti

Critics of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson are raising concerns over a consulting firm’s ability to conduct an objective audit of the Community Development Department. But City Auditor Jorge Oseguera said Tuesday that Sacramento firm Sjoberg Evashenk Consulting Inc. does not have a conflict of interest. Oseguera will ask the City Council on Thursday to hire Sjoberg to conduct the audit. Some of Johnson’s critics pointed out in comments on The Sacramento Press that Sjoberg has worked with the law group Bell, McAndrews and Hiltachk. That group's managing partner, Thomas Hiltachk, wrote the strong mayor initiative. Johnson would have obtained more authority from the initiative, which was str