Fatherly Rants

Caltrans officials said Monday that emergency repair work on a crack found on the Bay Bridge will not be completed by 5:00 a.m. Tuesday, and are advising drivers to prepare alternate plans for the morning commute. Transit officials say the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will not reopen in time for the Tuesday morning commute. The announcement late Monday leaves thousands of drivers to find alternate ways to get into San Francisco and sets...

The city of Sacramento will reopen park bathrooms that were earlier closed as a money-saving measure, an official said Tuesday. Hindolo Brima of Sacramento Department of Parks and Recreation said the city started reopening restrooms last Friday. He said staff has been looking at ways to reopen the restrooms while working within current budget constraints. Brima said staffing has been reallocated away from landscape maintenance and toward ba...

As I just finished writing about JoeSacramento changing the format on his blog, I found that one of those changes happen to be a new forum! If you have not been by, stop by and drop us a line... http://www.joesacramento.com/forum/...

Local blogger and JoeSacramento is calling it quits as we know him. He is changing the format of his blog.  I have mixed feelings on this.  I liked the quick wit of Joe.  I guess it'll still be around, just not on politics. Effective immediately I’m going to begin devoting my extra curricular time (time aside from family and work), to endeavors that are closer to my heart such as marriage ministry, music composition, screen writing, and ...

The Sacramento woman who sued the tiny Squeeze Inn hamburger restaurant over its lack of wheelchair access has dropped her lawsuit. Kimberly Block, 41, filed a civil rights complaint July 6 against the Squeeze Inn under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In the lawsuit, Block claimed she suffered “embarrassment and humiliation” when she tried to eat there last November. A lawsuit filed by a disabled woman against theSqueeze Inn,...

Welcome to the site! I've been feeling some pressure lately to focus on some personal and local issues. I was having a difficult time doing that on a national blog; The National Republicrat. So I will be focusing on (most) non-political issues here.  Well, local politics maybe. :-) We hope you like what you seen, please be sure to come back often, and thanks for stopping by... Dad...