The Land Park Volunteer Corps is kicking off its 2011 season with its first Park Work Day of the year this Saturday, March 5th in William Land Park.  Volunteers can report for duty at the Corps' "Base Camp" located in the large picnic grounds directly behind William Land Park. Volunteers can check-in at 9:00 a.m. and enjoy a complimentary light breakfast offered by Espresso Metro.  They will also hear a brief gardening talk on the topic of "Preparing Your Garden for Spring" offered by Capitol Nursery.  At 9:30 a.m, volunteers will be dispatched to one of eight different projects areas in the park.  A Corps Refreshment Cart will make frequent visits to each project site to keep each volunt

When Sacramento voters fill out their absentee ballots or walk into the voting booth on November 2nd, they will come across Measure B, the Utilities Rate Rollback Initiative. The rollback initiative will cancel or "roll back" a July 1st 9.2% hike in city utilities bills (water, sewer and garbage) and place new limits on the City Council's power to raise city utilities rates. It will require voter approval for hikes that exceed annual increases in the CPI. Simple enough, right? Not after the Sacramento City Council went to work on it. Instead of approving a simple, straight-forward ballot question for Measure B that could be easily understood by voters, the Council approved the following l