Sonia Sotomayor is the first-ever Latina Supreme Court Justice in the US [AP] Even though Latinos are increasing in number throughout the media landscape, their impact has yet to be felt. What do a pope, Pepsi campaign and American presidential election have in common? Because Latinos have been directly involved in each one of these […]
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: If you’ve been married or in a relationship 20 years or more.. Try to make it work, take a salsa class, wine tasting, beer making. Because if your starting over BEWARE! There is a new world out there. Initially, meeting people via the net was exciting and new . You can […]
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, […]
Readers know I have been very critical of the Mayor of Sacramento. But every once in a while, you have to sit back and give credit where credit is due. Mayor Kevin Johnson assembled a team to retain the Sacramento Kings and was successful. Sacramento is the capital of the largest state in […]
Clearly its personal…… It’s not about the City of Sacramento or Seattle. It’s about honor and principal. The newly empowered, Maloof Family wants respect. If they had the cash, I believe they would stay in Sacramento and build this team, the brothers liked Sacramento and the liked owning a professional franchise. But they don’t have the capital. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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