Description of the 2nd Annual Sacramento Bee California Priorities forum. On the agenda: Housing, Proposition 13 and Transportation. Last week I attended the 2nd Annual California Priorities event held by the Sacramento Bee, Sacramento’s last mainstream newspaper. I had also attended the inaugural event in 2018. The Sacramento Bee Influencer Series of opinion articles, and […]
‘Til Death or Dementia Do Us Part
Description and review of ‘Til Death or Dementia Do Us Part, a memoir by Sacramento author Marilyn Reynolds. I have from time to time pondered the possibility of dementia as I age. Have you? An article I read recently stated dementia is the “#1 fear of the baby boomer generation” – a statement that rings […]
The Ito Sisters – An American Story
(UPDATED 4/23/19) Description and review of The Ito Sisters – An American Story, a feature-length documentary about the lives of three Japanese Nisei sisters who were born on a farm in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. A friend and I attended the last film screened during the 14th Annual Sacramento Japanese Film Festival (July 20-22) at […]
Sacramento Rankings (U.S. & World)
Description of two recent reports by Resonance Consultancy Ltd. ranking Sacramento as a place to live and visit in the U.S. and the world. Resonance Consultancy Ltd. (self-described as an adviser on “tourism, real estate and economic development” based in Vancouver, British Columbia) recently released two reports – The 2018 “50 America’s Best Large Cities” […]
Travel & Leisure Magazine Survey
Did you see the recent (April 21st) Sacramento Bee headline about a Travel & Leisure magazine America’s Favorite Places survey? The headline read “Sacramento is No. 2 city for ugliest people”. Wow! Well, it caught my eye and I thought that I would look into the survey a bit more (without buying the magazine). Travel […]