Sunday: Neil Patrick Harris is Bigger! Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper are going to be Richer! After winning six Tonys — including Best Musical — this past weekend, Kinky Boots will kick off a national tour beginning in Las Vegas in September 2014. Monday: Good thing we live in the US of A. The Russians and Chinese people […]
Sacramento City Council members earn $55,000 a year. Last night five members (plus the mayor) voted to gift themselves $43,500 in discretionary monies. The bonanza was cleverly drafted into a budget proposal that would increase police and fire personal as well as restore other city services. When citizens passed Measure U to temporarily increase taxes, […]
Disneyland for everyone !! Apparently, the city council views Measure U as a bonanza. Sacramentians voted to tax themselves for extra police, fire and services. In addition to their salaries, the council wants $391,500 which amounts to $43,000.-(including the mayor) per council member ,to use as their discretion. The vote is tonight.
Sacramentans can exhale, the Kings are staying and the Maloof‘s are gone. Mayor Johnson efforts must be commended . Once the celebrating ends and the last bit of purple confetti is swept away, reality begins. A few weeks after the council approved a non binding $258 million term sheet. City Manager John Shirey told the […]
Is the proposed arena deal good for Sacramento? We took a look at the last 10 NBA arenas opened or renovated 1999 to 2012. The economic crisis has had a major effect on local government, cities have made severe cuts to services. Most professional sport venues opened after 2007 were financed with private dollars, […]
The drums are beating in Sacramento‘s neighborhoods. Details in the term sheet has made many local groups, organizations, bloggers uneasy. There are large cracks in the term sheet. Critics have questioned the real numbers , which could be as much 400 million. On April 8, Dan Walter, Columnist with the Sacramento Bee said. The area’s largest […]
Its a stressful time for the National Basketball Association board of governors. Two cities, Seattle Washington and Sacramento California are vying for one professional basketball team the Sacramento Kings. The issue for both cities may come down to which city is in the best position to build a new arena? In 2006, Sacramentians voted against a measure […]
Reblogged from Students of the Game: For eight straight years the Sacramento Kings made the playoffs. Those eight years, from 1999 to 2006, during which the Kings’ Arco Arena was one of the most feared venues in the NBA, remain locked in time for a fan base that hasn’t seen their team return to the […]
After reviewing the Entertainment and Sports Center(ESC) Term Sheet. The Sacramento Kings moving to Seattle may be the best gift for Sacramentians. The 2013 sheet is overly optimistic with perfect storm forecasts. It has several unsubstantiated claims for growth and insufficient traffic/parking studies. In a city facing deficits this year, the questions becomes is the ESC a good deal from […]
CINCINNATI—Here in Hamilton County, where one in seven people lives beneath the poverty line and budget cuts have left gaps in the schools and sheriffs department, residents are bracing for more belt-tightening: rollback of a property-tax break promised as part of a 1996 plan to entice voters to pay for two new stadiums. The tax […]
June 14, 2013
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