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sacramento connect NPR.orgI get around! Here’s a new cupcake shop — “Cupcake Magic” — on the renovated main drag in downtown Yuba City — Plumas Street. There’s a Sopa Thai next door (like ours in Nevada City). Downtown Grass Valley could use a cupcake shop too. “What recession? For cupcake bakers, business is booming” is here. A [...]
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“I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif,” Steve Jobs’ sister, Mona Simpson, writes in her eulogy of her brother, published in this weekend’s New York Times. “I hoped he would [...]
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I get more and more local news from Facebook posts by our residents. Here’s the “scoop” on a Michael Moore/KVMR benefit book signing last night at the Baggett Auditorium at Nevada Union High School, reported here previously. *”What a fantastic benefit with Michael Moore in Grass Valley last night! Thank you Michael for having the [...]
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“The financial woes of the California Republican Party have been well documented. The state GOP had just over $200,000 in the bank as of July 1, but in recent days, it has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into an effort to repeal the new state Senate district lines drawn by an independent commission earlier [...]
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The Cal Bears are headed toward their second straight losing season, having lost to Washington, Oregon, USC and now UCLA. Their coach is still the highest paid California state worker (thanks to alumni contributions too). For almost two years, I’ve suggested it’s time to replace the coach, Jeff Tedford. First Cal was passed by Oregon [...]
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“When I think of Chiara’s future under climate change, nothing concerns me as much as water,” writes environmental correspondent Mark Hertsgaard in the Sacramento Bee this morning. “We live in California, a state whose economy and politics have been shaped by water – and the lack of it – since before the Gold Rush. It [...]
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“October, said the calendar. Before Halloween. And the 2.5 million trees occupying New York City’s open spaces confirmed it was fall — not winter — with glorious canopies of leaves stretching along their boughs,” as the New York Times reported “Yet snow was falling. Not a light, mischievous form of frozen precipitation, either, but heavy, [...]
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Iowa St., where my nephew is a quarterback, routed #20 Texas Tech 41-7 this weekend. That’s a big upset, considering Texas Tech beat Oklahoma a week ago. The ISU team is now .500 and alive for a post-season bowl if it wins two more games. I wish my nephew had been the starter – he [...]
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Emgold said quietly this week that it is going to ask the City of Grass Valley to put the EIR process on hold for reopening the Idaho-Maryland Mine for another “60 to 90 days,” because it needs to raise money to complete the funding of the EIR. I hope people who keep betting on this [...]
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From the county’s Friday memo: Library Director Recruitment: Fifteen applicants were screened downed to the top five most highly qualified candidates. Two separates interview panels questioned these five candidates ultimately recommending 2 finalists. Further screening and background checks on these two finalists are now taking place. An appointment should be made in the next couple [...]
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