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Region's officials in debt headlock

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Published May 23, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Teacher Laura Bowles, standing at right in doorway, watches her third-graders go to recess at Aero Haven Elementary from her classroom, which got new flooring. Budget and enrollment shortfalls have been blamed for the decision by the Twin Rivers district to close the school ... Think of it like buying a house with a hefty mortgage that looked good when home prices were spiraling upward – but threatens to pull you under now that the housing market has tanked and your pay has been cut ...

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Caution: Longtime capital law is nothing to spit at

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Published May 24, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

Be careful where you spit ... More to the point: Watch it in Sacramento ... Laws against public spitting are historic relics, but Sacramento City Code 9.04.040 still prohibits spitting on sidewalks and in streetcars ... Occasionally – rarely – it's even enforced ... "It's still on the books and we use it when we see fit," said Officer Konrad Von Schoech ... Expectorators were cited three times in the past 12 months ... The only cited transgressor in 2010, said Von Schoech, was a high school

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City to host series of free water conservation classes

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Published May 24, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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PAUL KITAGAKI JR ... Bee file, 2009Sacramento residents are allowed to use sprinklers on alternate days in the summer, based on their street address. The city Utilities Department is hosting free classes on water conservation ... Sacramento residents can attend a free class on water conservation from 6 to 8 p.m. June 3 at the South Natomas Community Center, 2921 Truxel Road ... The class, hosted by the City of Sacramento Utilities Department, will teach residents how to follow new watering rules

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Kevin Johnson presses again for strong-mayor ballot measure

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Published May 23, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Kevin Johnson ... Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is still full speed ahead on trying to change the way City Hall operates ... The mayor, the city police union and powerful business interests are pushing to get a scaled-down version of Johnson's strong-mayor initiative on the November ballot. They say the new measure, which hasn't been written, is the result of months of debate and input ... "For anyone to say there hasn't been enough input, that would not be true," Johnson said. "Ultimately, I

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Sacramento pot farmer's mom went to jail for what he does legally

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Published May 23, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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David Tat Chow's mother and stepfather were sentenced to three years in state prison on marijuana charges. Now Chow grows marijuana for medicinal uses on his small farm and teaches the art of cultivating the weed. "My parents were made an example," he says. "(The authorities) said, 'If you grow marijuana, we're going to put you in prison – and we're going to take your property.' " ... Down a rutted dirt road from Garden Highway and the Sacramento River levee, organic farmer David Tat Chow

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Prep softball: Casa Roble beats River Valley in D-III quarterfinal

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Published May 23, 2010 at 2:32 a.m.

Playoff disappointment has been a common theme for the Casa Roble softball team in the four years since it last won a Sac-Joaquin Section championship ... The 2010 senior class is out to change that ... Senior right fielder Leesha Shoemaker went 3 for 3 with three RBIs, two triples and four runs to lead the Rams (22-2) to a 10-2 win over River Valley (19-8) in a Division III section quarterfinal Saturday at the Sacramento Softball Complex ... Casa Roble will face two-time defending champion

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Dining review: Esquire Grill no longer exciting

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Published May 16, 2010 at 2:56 p.m.
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The Esquire Grill on K Street, a quick stroll from the state Capitol, is often packed with eager patrons ... "Oh boy, big crowd tonight," I said to the cheery fellow who greeted us at Esquire Grill. "Um, I was guessing it would be slow on a Monday." ... "This is actually not uncommon," he replied. "We have two big groups. One is Californians for affordable student housing, and the other is the invertebrate – not the vertebrate – pesticide folks." ... I tried not to look star-struck as he led

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State releases new details about home where foster child mysteriously died

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Published May 7, 2010 at 2:10 a.m.
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Tracy Dossman, with nephew Brandon Dossman, is no longer a fosterparent. The state wants to keep it that way, but she is fighting back ... Child abuse and neglect were rampant in a crowded North Natomas foster home, where children attacked one another, their phone usage was tightly controlled and their foster mother lied to social workers about the chaotic conditions, according to new accusations by the California Department of Social Services ... Former foster provider Tracy Dossman, 42, is the

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Critics: Art-exhibit plan 'egregious' while budget cuts imperil Sacramento County kids

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Published May 5, 2010 at 11:08 a.m.

A proposal to spend more than $500,000 in public money on art exhibits for children is being condemned by some Sacramento leaders and child advocates, who consider the plan an outrage while life-and-death social services programs falter ... On Monday, the First 5 Sacramento Commission is poised to approve a three-year contract with the Crocker Art Museum to create kid-friendly museum exhibits and art programs. The local commission allocates tobacco-tax money collected under Proposition 10,

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Missouri rapist once a suspect in Sacramento's Oak Park assaults

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Published May 7, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Bernard Jackson had been charged with five felonies in an Oak Park sex assault ... For 22 years, five felony counts in a sex assault case against Bernard Jackson sat pending in Sacramento Superior Court ... No action was taken on the matter after it was filed in 1984 as part of the investigation into the Oak Park rapist case, which consisted of as many as 17 assaults that began in 1983 ... Then, on Nov. 13, 2006, the charges were dismissed and the case file was either carted away to archives or

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