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Says more county mental health clinicians needed During an afternoon meeting of the Sacramento City Council on Tuesday, March 14, Mayor Darrell Steinberg discussed relations with Sacramento County over dealing with the region’s homelessness crisis. Although relations between the City of Sacramento and Sacramento County have sometimes been fractious,
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River City Waterways Alliance makes plea to Supervisors During today’s Sacramento County Board of Supervisors regular meeting, advocates for the American and Sacramento rivers waterway proposed an ordinance to mitigate waste flow. The three people speaking at the meeting were the River City Waterways Alliance members. That group has
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Will the district embrace book bans? With a great deal of pride, the California city of Elk Grove and the Elk Grove Unified School District embraces its diversity. While most have embraced the school district and the city’s diversity, this is a recent development. As former Elk Grove City
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Every so often, a piece of legislation scarily catches the imagination. A recent example is from, not surprisingly, Florida Republicans who gave us the don’t say gay law and book bans. Listen Time 1 Minute
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5 members formally appointed Listen to the story. Along with appointing five members to the Measure E oversight committee, the Elk Grove City Council decided to expand the committee size to seven at last evening’s city council meeting. After hearing comments from several of the 19 committee applicants, Mayor
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Drag shows called ‘perversions’ and compared to ANTIFA, Proud Boys During a trustees meeting of the Elk Grove Unified School District, at least three speakers expressed dismay over a drag show performance at a district high school’s multicultural performance. The remarks were made during the public comment section of
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Self-serve only With continuous rain forecasted from another atmospheric river approaching Northern California, coupled with recent record snowfall in the Sierra Nevada, for the next several days, the Central Valley and Elk Grove are under a flood watch. With the flood watch and heavy flows expected from melting snow, the
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Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen will make the appointments Listen to this story During this Wednesday’s Elk Grove City Council meeting, Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen will have 19 applicants to consider for appointment to a citizen’s oversight committee. That committee will examine Measure E expenditures, the voter-approved sales tax increase. Measure
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Julie Su nominated by President Biden It is a rare occasion that we find ourselves in agreement with conservatives, but this week we had to agree with an assessment from Rep. Kevin Kiley. Listen Time 1 Minute
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Elk Grove Blvd. & Hwy. 99 cited as a traffic chokepoint On the evening of Tuesday, February 28, the Cosumnes Community Service District and the city of Elk Grove held the fourth and final workshop on spending revenues from the recently passed Measure E. That measure, which was approved in
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Supervisor Frost says COVID-19 restrictions were a “catastrophic crime against humanity” Editor’s note: A video was produced and uploaded to Elk Grove New’s YouTube Channel @ElkGroveNews showing an exchange between Sacramento County Supervisors Sue Frost and Phil Serna regarding the county’s state of emergency and COVID-19 vaccines.