I just learned that a great American educator, Jaime Escalante, lost his battle with cancer.  I am saddened by the loss of this remarkable educator, and wanted to take a minute to reflect on his contributions to students. Through his students' remarkable success on the AP Calculus exam, Escalante
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I love the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. I just hate seeing those guys play in San Jose. Nothing against our South Bay friends. But their victory is Sacramento’s loss. Even last week, when our city council was voting unanimously to accept the recommendations of the Sacramento First task force
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The faith community has come up with a remarkably innovative method for fighting homelessness in the Sacramento community. It’s a beautifully simple idea, which makes it even more beneficial: Ask parishioners at more than 80 houses of worship to donate one day’s worth of rent or mortgage for a
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Sometimes, there’s no better analogy than a sports analogy. In our efforts to build a new entertainment and sports complex, the comparison fits. We finished the first quarter. We built a 10-point lead. But we’re a long way from the final buzzer. This week, the Sacramento City Council unanimously
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How positive is this? A Sacramento City Council uniformly impressed by a proposal to build a privately financed entertainment and sports complex, linked with the city’s new intermodal transit center downtown. The energy created by merging the two projects could be unique in city history. Each year,
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The date was October 29, 2009, when I asked members of the media and community to join me on the top floor of a new building on Capitol Mall. I said, “Look out the windows and let yourself dream.” Today (March 11, 2010), the city of Sacramento began to grab hold of that dream. In a special
0 Comments TeamKJ.org Admin submitted 1 years 326 days ago

It’s a monumental day for the city of Sacramento. The City Council will convene a Special Session today at 11:30 a.m. to receive the Sacramento First Task Force recommendations on a new entertainment and sports complex. The Task Force, a group of citizen volunteers, has contributed more than 900
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By R.E. Graswich, Special Assistant to Mayor Kevin Johnson: Very cool process underway at Sacramento City Hall this week: Mayor, council and public all share first bite at big news from Sacramento First Task Force. The citizen's task force spent the last four months finding ways to build a new
2 Comments TeamKJ.org Admin submitted 1 years 328 days ago

The best part of my job is getting out and meeting people – Sacramento residents, visitors and especially city employees. For the past week, I’ve been moving from city department to city department, talking to the men and women who keep Sacramento moving. I’ve met with everyone from the folks who
0 Comments TeamKJ.org Admin submitted 1 years 329 days ago

Call me Kevin “Green Shades” Johnson. I’ve had a few nicknames, but none I’ve liked as much as “Green Shades.” The idea of walking around with cool looking, green-tint sunglasses is the image I want to project for Sacramento. Our weather is perfect for sunglasses, at least 300 days per year. And
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