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SMUD Utility ‘Summer Rates’ Surge To Accommodate Increasing Renewable Cost Subsidies

June 25, 2019 2:07 amJune 26, 2019 6:04 am

On June 1st, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District began charging Sacramento electricity users and ratepayers a new rate system that charges residential users higher rates between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m… much higher rates, just in time to get home...

Sacramento Authorizes Taxpayer Dollars for Legal Fees of Illegal Immigrants, Including Criminals

June 4, 2019 4:12 pmJune 4, 2019 5:44 pm

Sacramento City Council members Angelique Ashby and Jeff Harris, critics of mayor Darrell Steinberg, charge that the mayor is taking retribution against them by excluding their districts from a $16 million spending plan. Other recent budgetary moves by the Sacramento...

Sacramento Mayor Steinberg Deploys Budget Bludgeon

June 1, 2019 10:45 amJune 1, 2019 10:51 am

“Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg is being accused of playing Chicago-style politics,” writes Theresa Clift in the Sacramento Bee, “seeking retribution against two critics on the City Council by ignoring their districts in a $16 million spending proposal.” According to the...

Sacramento Utility Penalizing Working Families With Tiered Rates

May 24, 2019 3:00 amMay 23, 2019 9:31 pm

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District announced last year Sacramento electricity ratepayers would be under a new rate system that charges residential users higher rates between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. — just in time for everyone to arrive home after work...

Sacramento History: Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme Still Loves Charles Manson

May 4, 2019 6:05 amMay 6, 2019 9:02 am

Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, 70, recently went on record that she was still in love with her idol Charles Manson. “Was I in love with Charlie?” she told ABC News “Yeah, oh yeah, oh, I still am, still am. I don’t...

One Year Since Arrest of Golden State Killer and Original Nightstalker

April 23, 2019 12:29 pmApril 23, 2019 1:54 pm

“The answer has always been in Sacramento.” That was Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert on April 25, 2018, when she announced the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo. Also present were district attorneys Tony Rackauckas of Orange County, Nancy...

Competitive Academic Program ‘Too White’ For Sacramento City School District Officials

April 3, 2019 7:49 pmApril 5, 2019 7:47 am

In early March, parents of Sacramento’s C.K. McClatchy High School took to social media expressing their outrage and frustration when their kids, who had already received letters congratulating them on being accepted to the school’s rigorous academic Humanities and International...