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Friday’s Mashed Potatoes 06/14/13

June 14, 2013

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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 […]

Freaky Foul Freeloading Friday: Michael Douglas,RHONJ,The Big Wheel, FBI, No Arrest Arden Fair,

June 7, 2013

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                             Hott in Sacramento Its gonna be hot in Sacramento. Not warm,  freekin hot ,anywhere from 103 to 108.   Every summer, even after  20 years,  I question the wisdom of my move to Sacramento, if I were in San Francisco, I […]

Did Sacramento Leaders Negotiate the Best Arena Deal For The City? A look at the last 10 NBA Arena Deals

June 1, 2013

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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, […]

Stockton’s Bad Rep

May 21, 2013

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What does The City of Stockton and Lindsay Lohan have in common?   Anytime they’re in the press, its bad press.   For Stockton, that means someone was robbed, or murdered.  Good news is in short supply in this city of three hundred thousand.     Last Sunday my friends and I toured the city. […]

FIRST: Jason Collins

May 1, 2013

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A few weeks ago my daughter and I saw 42, the movie about Jackie Robinson .   It was a very moving  as I know the loneliness and the ongoing emotional line one walks when he is the first. The first person stands straight, he or she measures their words because we know the expectations, we know […]

Death By Cotton

March 17, 2013

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In Maharashtra’s Mansawali village the story of farmer suicides persists as they continue to get entangled in the debt cycle of Bt cotton cultivation The former Sarpanch of Mansawali village, Ashok Khadase, does not stop counting the honours his village received during his tenure as the village head. Mansawali is located in Hinganghat tehsil of […]

Veneno Lamborghini a car for the 0.1′%

March 9, 2013

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The $3.9-million Lamborghini Veneno is billed as a race car that happens to be street legal. GENEVA, Switzerland — Here’s the car for the top 0.1%. Lamborghini’s new Veneno — sticker price 3 million euros ($3.9 million) — is sold out. Only three were made. Americans are buying two of them. The latest in its […]

Note to Sacramento: Tax dollars for Sports teams is politically damaging for lawmakers.

March 8, 2013

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Rendering of proposed changes to Sun Life Stadium, showing partial roof covering.  About 73 percent of likely Miami-Dade voters oppose a Miami Dolphins tax-break plan for stadium improvements, according to a new poll obtained by The Miami Herald that indicates the issue is politically damaging for lawmakers. The poll was instantly criticized by the Dolphins […]

What is Sequestration?

February 21, 2013

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It’s a wonky term long used in congressional appropriations staff rooms but now it’s one of the hottest political issues in Washington: Sequestration. But what, exactly is a sequester? Simply put, it’s the formal term for mandatory cuts to federal programs – the process of cordoning off money that may have been authorized by Congress but […]

LET GAYS MARRY… OR THEY’LL MARRY YOUR GIRLFRIENDS

February 17, 2013

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Although a majority of young adults support same-sex marriage,  a bunch of young straight guys still don’t. And to those straight guys, know this — if you vote against gay guys marrying each other, we’ll still get married… only it’ll be to your girlfriends instead. That’s right. As the boys in the video below attest, gay guys make awesome boyfriends! No, we’re […]

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