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Ex-NFL Player To Challenge Bowen For Sec. Of State

Published June 8, 2010 at 11:38 p.m.

Former NFL player Damon Dunn has won the Republican nomination for California secretary of state. Dunn defeated Orange County lawyer Orly Taitz in Tuesday's primary, andwill face incumbent Democrat Debra Bowen in the general election inNovember ...

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Event: The California State Railroad Museum to Debut Photo-Documentary Exhibit: “The Migrant Project at California State Railroad Museum, Wed, Jun 9 10:00a

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Published Feb. 23, 2010 at 10:50 a.m.

The California State Railroad Museum hosts a photo-documentary exhibition titled “The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers.” The exhibit will include 40 photographs of California farm workers taken by photographer and author Rick Nahmias. And, in advance honor of Cesar Chavez Day (which officially falls on March 31), the Railroad Museum will offer free admission on Saturday, March 27 with book signing opportunities and guest lectures by the photographer at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m

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Event: History Comes Alive at Sutter’s Fort! at Sutter's Fort State Historical Monument, Wed, Jun 9 10:00a

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Published March 3, 2010 at 3:05 p.m.

March 3, 2010 – June 30, 2010: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday June 1- July 31, 2010: Tuesday through Sunday The 2010 season of “History Live,” a vibrant and interactive historical experience, begins anew on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. Visitors have the opportunity to meet pioneers who left their homes and braved the journey to Sutter’s Fort at the dawn of the California Gold Rush. Hands-on activities led by experienced docents ...

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Long-abused public sculpture to get dignified home in Crocker

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Published May 22, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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The sculpture, made of fiberglass covered with sparkly acrylic paint, was brought to town in 1985 by Phil Hitchcock, chairman the California State University, Sacramento, art department ... It's the end of the trail for a young vaquero and the red-eyed longhorn cow he first lassoed in downtown Sacramento a quarter-century ago ... "Progress II," the flashy Luis Jimenez sculpture that was loved, loathed and routinely vandalized when it stood at 16th and K streets, has a new home ... It was

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Persistent cold, wet weather stunts crops, worries farmers

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

Keep your sweater – and umbrella – within reach ... The chilly weekend temperatures were among the coldest in more than a half-century from Redding to Stockton, the National Weather Service reported Sunday ... More cold is expected today – a low of 45 and a high of 69 in downtown Sacramento – with rain forecast through much of this week ... The dogged pattern of rain and cold has prompted worries of another sort: Melon crops are less likely to be ready for market in time for July 4

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Fruit and Veggie Fest takes to the store aisles to teach healthy eating

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Published May 24, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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Lucas Henderson, 8, of Sacramento and other children from a future generation of shoppers watch and learn as pears are weighed Sunday during an educational tour of a FoodMaxx store in south Sacramento ... A group of children stood in front of a wall of neon-colored jugs of punch in a south-area grocery store Sunday ... They looked up at the yellow, orange and pink concoctions that made a tantalizing display ... The boys and girls were taking an educational tour of the FoodMaxx on Florin Road

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Mayor Johnson seeks more clout in Sacramento education

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Published May 24, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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RANDY PENCH rpench@sacbee.comMayor Kevin Johnson meets earlier this month with Sacramento High School student leaders including Lenee Washington. Johnson recently was named to a pair of national education committees ... Before he was mayor of Sacramento, former NBA player Kevin Johnson was a star in the national charter school movement ... Now, he's jumping back into the education arena. He says he'll review candidates for school boards in the November elections in the five districts serving

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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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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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