Uneasy Rhetoric

I realize Dan Weintraub and I might be on the same side of the arena issue (and it gives me hives to think we might share anything), insofar as we’ve bothered to choose a side, but something didn’t quite strike me as right in his column in today’s Sunday Forum in the Bee.
Dan argues that, [...]

This comes as no surprise. Think it is an anomaly? I doubt it. This is what you get when you have grossly high housing prices, exuberant lenders and desperate borrowers:
In Sacramento County during the second quarter of this year, the number of homes going into foreclosure stood at 1,866. That compares to [...]

If you don’t read The Onion, I suggest you read this article: Sometimes I Feel Like I’m The Only One Trying To Gentrify This Neighborhood.
There is a difference between neighborhood revitalization and gentrification, and I suppose it is possible to have one without the other, but the two, while different, nevertheless succumb to their mutual [...]

From the outside the 800J Lofts building is a combination of outstanding design, industrial boredom, and a nostalgic reflection of the newer portion of the Convention Center several blocks further up. From the parking lot inside the Renaissance Tower (another building with which I have a love/hate relationship), one can look down into a [...]

Gaesorn, a terrific Thai restaurant displaced by the Cathedral Building gut and stuff, has reopened downtown in the former location of the expensive Il Posto (1015 Ninth Street). They even inherited the cheesy plastic furniture.
On the downside, they’re right next to My Thai, a not quite as good, but still serviceable, restaurant.
Mike Dunne mentioned [...]