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Light Up Elk Grove Celebrate Chanukah with Chabad Elk Grove and the City at the Old Town Plaza this Sunday, December 10 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Chanukah is the Jewish 8-day festival of lights observed this year from December 7-15. Experience the lighting of a 9-foot LED
Law and Justice
Downtown Sacramento tagger sentenced to 1 year, must pay $50k
A prolific Sacramento tagger was sentenced last week and ordered to pay restitution. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Alexander Pat sentenced Scott Smith to one year in county jail, one year probation and ordered to pay $50,102 in restitution. Smith pleaded no contest to two charges of felony vandalism.
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Christmas Price Index Through the Years
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User fees for Elk Grove’s District56 facilities, aquatics center increasing
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Elk Grove News Minute Podcast – Trump has told us what he’ll do so we better believe him
This week, there was a lengthy and eye-opening essay in the Washington Post by Robert Kagan of the Brookings Institute. Titled A Trump Dictatorship is inevitable. We should stop pretending, Mr. Kagan outlines how Trump could exert dictator-like authority in a second term. Listen Time 1 Minute Read the essay
Environmental News
A Really Deep Read: Big Oil Disinformation Campaign, Deep Regulatory Capture and the Failed MLPA Initiative
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California Supreme Court will hear arguments to remove tax initiative from ballot; Cover for Elk Grove’s Measure E?
In a setback for taxpayer advocates this week, the California Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments to remove an initiative from the November 2024 ballot. The request came from several Democratic legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom. The arguments center on the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act (TPA). If approved
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21 State Attorneys General, Led by California’s Rob Bonta, Unite Against Idaho’s Controversial Transgender Student Bathroom Bill
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Ya Gotta be Schmittin’ Me podcast – The Value of Gift Giving
While working out the other day at the gym and casually watching TV, a scrolling news reports on holiday shopping caught my attention. It read, “Twenty-five percent of adult Americans are still paying off their 2022 holiday season gift purchases!” Listen Time 1 Minute 30 seconds
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Sacramento County Coroner seeks assistance identifying victim killed in hit and run incident
The Sacramento County Coroner’s office is seeking the public’s assistance in an unidentified man who was killed in pedestrian hit and run incident. Just before midnight on September 27, 2022, at approximately 2337 hours, CHP reported a motor vehicle versus pedestrian hit & run on south bound Howe
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