Weekly Sacramento paper ceases publication
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- Weekly Sacramento paper ceases publication
- Sacramento’s Parking Ticket Hotspots Revealed
- Drew Gooden joins Spurs for playoff run
- Sacramento-area jobless rate hits 10.4 percent
- Sacramento Bee union staffers vote on pay cuts
- Sacramento police union defers pay raises
- Crash into south Sacramento house leaves family homeless
Weekly Sacramento paper ceases publication
San Francisco Chronicle
The paper’s editor and publisher James Dutra said it could not weather the economic difficulties brought on by the recession. Among the newspaper’s original reporters was author Samuel Clemens better known to later generations by his pseudonym Mark Twain. The newspaper went out of business in 1994 after nearly 143 years of publication mostly as a daily. In July 2006 it began publication as a weekly tabloid that appeared on Fridays.
Sacramento’s Parking Ticket Hotspots Revealed
MSNBC
- Parking in ld Sacramento? Be sure you aren’t breaking any rules because you’re 64 times more likely to get a ticket here when compared with any other random spot in the city of Sacramento. KCRA3 Investigates crunched the data to uncover the hottest spots where you’re most likely to get a ticket. Story continues below ?advertisement |.
Drew Gooden joins Spurs for playoff run
The Associated Press
7 rebounds this season in 32 games all but one of which came in Chicago. The Bulls traded Gooden to the Kings in a six-player deal last month but Gooden played only one game with Sacramento on Feb. The Spurs had about $1. 5 million remaining in their midlevel exception to offer Gooden. Sacramento agreed to an undisclosed buyout of Gooden’s $7.
Sacramento-area jobless rate hits 10.4 percent
Bizjournals.com
4% Sacramento-area’s jobless rate reached double digits and a modern-day record in January as construction companies to retailers slashed almost 20000 jobs during the month according to a report released Thursday. The Sacramento region’s unemployment rate climbed to 10. 4 percent compared to 8. 8 percent in December — and 6. 4 percent a year ago according to the state.
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Sacramento Bee union staffers vote on pay cuts
The Associated Press
(AP) — Union members at The Sacramento Bee are deciding whether to accept pay cuts of up to 6 percent. Approval of the cuts by the Newspaper Guild would save 19 union-covered jobs in the newsroom and advertising departments at least for now. The paper plans to cut 34 of the union’s 268 positions regardless of the vote results. Rejection of pay cuts could put those 19 additional jobs in jeopardy too. Results are expected to be announced after 5 p.
Sacramento police union defers pay raises
San Jose Mercury News
—The union representing Sacramento police officers has tentatively agreed to defer pay raises in order to avoid layoffs within the department. The union agreed to defer 5 percent cost-of-living increases and other raises to avoid losing 67 police jobs and reduce patrols. Sacramento is facing a $50 million deficit for the fiscal year that begins July 1. fficials say the police salary concessions would save about $6.
Crash into south Sacramento house leaves family homeless
Sacramento Bee
6 2009 – 6:35 amLast Modified: Friday Mar. 6 2009 – 10:43 am A family is homeless this morning after a car full of women suspected of fighting and assaulting a police officer plowed into their Sacramento home. A Sacramento police officer was driving by the Denny’s at 6401 Mack Road about 2:25 a. when he noticed a disturbance in the parking lot police Sgt. “It was a bunch of intoxicated folks at Denny’s” he said.
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