Uneasy Rhetoric

The Dottie Awards 2006 Is it my imagination, or do the Dotties have the washed out look of mainstreaming? (Thanks Sac Rag) (tags: sacramento dotties) Downtown Sacramento Partnership One of those websites I never remember to check. They need RSS or an email list or something. But it doesn’t look like it’s updated too frequently [...]

Anita Creamer’s column in today’s Bee about the impending opening of an Ikea mothership said something I’ve been saying for a long time: In Sacramento, we’re particularly susceptible to falling for big chains’ sales pitches before we even know what we’re buying. We’re always so pitifully grateful that they notice we’re here–a population of smaller [...]

Gmaps Pedometer Here’s a Google Maps tool to determine how far you’ve walked. The route I’ve included is a walk around Capitol Park in Sacramento. 1.3 miles. (tags: walking sacramento)

A few days ago, a friend of mine in St. Louis sent me a link to this story from Reuters. The key part: A perfect example of what can go wrong was the 1993 Mississippi Flood, considered the most devastating single flood in U.S. history. Heavy rainfall overwhelmed the Mississippi and its tributaries, flooding 17,000 [...]

There’s an excellent discussion going on over at heckasac about the proposed changes to K Street, as outlined at LivingInUrbanSac’s post. Living’s post suggests something that I wondered about earlier – is Sacramento depending too much on restaurants to turn things around? How about a little cultural diversity? And I don’t mean Luigi’s Steak and [...]