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Help Protect Parks and River Parkway

The Grassroots Working Group (GWG) will be back before the County Board of Supervisors at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, August 9th, in the supervisor’s chambers at 700 H Street, Sacramento. For Grassroots, this will be the most important Board decision of the year.   The Board is considering whether to sponsor state legislation this year that would give the county the authority to place before the voters a 1/10 % sales tax for parks purposes (one penny for every $10 spent). The county is already authorized to place a sales tax before the voters, but not one this small.  Save the American River Association supports this.   The revenue from a sales tax must to go to a governmental agency. SARA believe

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Capitol Vigil For Wisconsin Workers and Human Rights

The sun was still shining on the State Capitol at 5:30 p.m. Monday, at the start of the Sacramento Central Labor Council's Candlelight Vigil for Wisconsin Workers. The crowd grew to an estimated 2,000 people, in solidarity with labor and human rights movements in Wisconsin and beyond. The supply of signs for "We Stand With Wisconsin Workers" and flameless vigil candles didn't meet the demand. There were handmade signs, such as: "Labor Rights. Human Rights. Women's Rights. We Are One" and "Serf's Unite."  "We Are One," "It's About Freedom" and other signs from dozens of labor organizations, represented nurses, state workers, educators, fire fighters, law enforcement and skilled trade unio

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Sacramento's Gem Up For Grabs

We call it the Crown Jewel of Sacramento and are stingy about keeping it polished and protected. It generates an estimated $365,000,000 annually and more visits than Yosemite, yet it is underfunded and undervalued as a regional asset. The American River Parkway provides our water, improves our air quality and supports diverse wildlife, including some of the last West Coast salmon runs. We go there to rest, recreate and reflect. The 23 mile stretch from Nimbus Dam to the confluence with the Sacramento River is officially designated as a Wild and Scenic River. It is the most heavily used recreation river in California.  TV news crews try to scare us silly when the river rises "near Flood S

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Urban Design Alliance: Presenting the Pilot Alley

Piped, paved and delivered. Well, almost. Underground work for what proponents call "Alley Activation" is complete. The Urban Design Alliance's Fourth Wednesday dialogue topic was “Delivery of the Midtown Pilot Alley.”  Guest speakers were Julie Young, co-chair of the Alley Activation Committee and Disctrict 3 City Council Member Steve Cohn. Greg Taylor of UDA and Dustin Litrell hosted the free event at the downtown office of the American Institute of Architects. The Alley Activation private/public works project has excavated the alley between 17th, 18th and L streets and Capitol Avenue. City water pipes and sewer lines have been replaced. The next step is application of permeable paver

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Community Brainstorm: Second Saturday Solutions

Victor Zavala will not be a martyr but he will be remembered. The shooting that injured three people and caused his death has been a catalyst for a community discussion of social, cultural and political issues. When we are through discussing our differences, we may discuss what we have in common: our love for the history and beauty of our central city, rivers, climate and region; our pride in our diverse population and our commitment to continue to grow Sacramento into a wonderful place to live, work, play and visit. The recent tragedy and ensuing community conversation has many aspects. Some are contentious and difficult to deal with. An open community meeting has been scheduled to disc

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Conversation about: Police: Bystander killed after gunfight at 28th and J Streets in Midtown

Sincere condolences to ctf (posted above) and his friend's family. As he says, "No amount of throwing blame around will bring our dear friend back." The people who have worked on these issues with business and city leaders don't believe "throwing blame around" is the answer, either. They refer to existing legal and planning guidelines to encourage business and city leaders to create mixed use and active neighborhoods that work for everyone and are not (illegally) overconcentrated with bars, nightclubs and their attendant problems (including parking in and disrupting residential neighborhoods). The current atmosphere -- created in spite of those legal guidelines -- led to ctf's friends death, and death, injury and harm (including degrading quality of life and property values) to many others. If business and city leaders chose to follow those guidelines instead, the atmosphere would be different and his friend might not be gone. We can have - or could have had - a vibrant, mixed used Midtown that was more balanced in terms of serving business' and residents' needs, and not favoring one at the expense of the other; with a local economy that supported many venues, entertainments and services; that wasn't dependent mainly on alcohol and visitors with no investment in, or respect for, the neighborhoods. That's what the laws and guidelines are intended for. Balance.

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Conversation about: City plans parking upgrades and crackdown on disabled placard abuse

Interesting that this is a top story (no offense intended to the reporter) when so many other crucial parking issues are current, including the pilot program to extend hours for residential-only parking in Midtown and efforts to herd visiting drivers away from residential neighborhoods and into parking lots. One suggestion for the parking lot at 17th and L St. Remove the signs (2 of them!) that say DO NOT ENTER. Might help.

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Conversation about: McKinley park playground torched; arson suspected

" "All people are doing is destroying city property and the city is going to end up rebelling it and spending more money where they don't have money to spend," he said." And these days they may be "rebelling it" when there isn't money to rebuild.

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Conversation about: Sacramento Museums Turn Up the Heat With Fun Activities in August!

World Class City! Great PR. Thanks for sharing this info.

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Conversation about: Many Sacramento 2020 “supporters” don’t live in Sacramento, or don't exist at all

CORRUPTION is why the Sacramento City Charter was changed FROM the Boss Mayor model decades ago.

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