This is an email Matt Kelly wrote to Kevin McCarty’s challenger, Mitch Netto who went from unknown “also ran” to barely known but reasonably well funded but still likely to finish as an “also ran” after Jon Bagatellos decided that he didn’t want to pick up his family and move to Sacramento and some of the [...]
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Jeffrey A. Michael, Director of the Business Forecasting Center and Associate Professor, Eberhardt School of Business, University of the Pacific weighed in on the Arena deal that wasn’t. To cut to the chase: The inevitable conclusion is that, like most sports arenas in medium to small markets, a $391 million arena in downtown Sacramento simply [...]
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Mail Choice, a company that helps innocent people get out of the endless mailing lists that clog our mailboxes released the top 20 “mail efficient” metropolitan areas for March. Although the list was disproportionately from California, Sacramento was not on it. What’s wrong, do the rest of you like getting junk mail? Be aware, the [...]
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Mayor Johnson has indicated that the effort to build an arena should continue even without the Kings on board. Perhaps Sacramento could lure an NHL franchise? Regardless, Barnum and Bailey, Disney on Ice and U2 need a space to perform and there’s no chance of getting the Olympics or NCAA Tournament to Sacramento without a new arena, [...]
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Mark my words, the fallout from the ESC is just getting started. The Maloofs’ deserve plenty of blame for repeatedly and, I suspect, strategically, acting in bad faith. I’ve written about that repeatedly, leading up to Friday’s flare-up. But the real story may be the city’s deception of its citizens. As usual, Isaac Gonzalez at [...]
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It’s been interesting to watch the Mayor and other arena advocates repeatedly lay into the Maloofs after Friday. They’ve been matched in volume, vitriol, and intensity by the Maloofs themselves. Isaac at ranSACked has the quotes. This bridge isn’t just being burned, it’s being nuked into oblivion. There are a couple ways this could go, [...]
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Mitt Romney is still in denial about contraception. “But there’s no question that over the past several weeks, that a discussion about religious liberty was distorted into a discussion about contraceptives. And there was the somehow Republicans are opposed to contraceptives. I think it was most unfortunate twist by our Democrat friends. I think this [...]
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Mitt, Congratulations on effectively wrapping up the nomination and dispatching your final foes. Don’t worry, Santorum will figure it out within the next couple of weeks. I’ll admit, I was wrong. When I predicted last August that, despite your numerous advantages, you would not win the nomination, I massively underestimated the complete ineptitude of your [...]
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Dr. Seuss would have been 98 years old today. I always loved his books and still have a few favorites on my bookshelf. He had a sense of humor like few others. He had the ability to convey deep, complex realities with only a few dozen words. His writing was clever, rich, and always fun. [...]
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