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Poll: 78% Of Sacramento Residents Want To Vote On The Arena

According to a new poll, Sacramento residents are nearly evenly divided for or against the use of public funds to build a new entertainment and sports complex for the Kings, but on one issue their is overwhelming clarity; voters want to have the final ...

NBA Warned Sacramento Against Building An Arena At The Plaza 3 Years Ago Due To Terrorism Threat

In March of 2010, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson assembled a group of preeminent regional, national, and global experts in a wide range of fields and professions to determine the feasibility of several plans to build a new world-class entertainment...

Light rail accidents occurring far too frequently

On Wednesday, a man who was trying to catch a light rail train at the Power Inn station reportedly leapt into the trains and tripped, resulting in his being trapped underneath the rail car until he died from his injuries. It’s just the latest i...

The ranSACkedmedia Podcast – Episode #48

Apr 18, 2013

Boston is on our mind, and we talk about it at length in this week’s ranSACkedmedia Podcast. But after some heavy talk, the gang moves into lighter fare, like yard sales, Transformers, dating, and the arts. Find out why Cindy Baker wants you to g...

Adiós, Fresh & Easy, We Hardly Knew Yee

The parent company of the Fresh & Easy grocery chain has announced that it is abandoning the U.S. market after a five-year run. Tesco, the U.K.’s version of Wal-Mart, had high hopes that their model would work across the pond, and opened 2...

Sacramento Marathon Runners Describe Scene Around Boston Blast

Several of the runners in yesterdays Boston Marathon are from the Sacramento region, are we’re getting stories about their experiences now for the first time. Kristin Blocher was between the finish line and the location of the second bomb when bo...

Leonard Starks Made His Mark On Sacramento, And We’re All Lucky He Did

If you appreciate the finer architectural examples that Sacramento has to offer, such as the Elks Tower, the Downtown Post Office, the Arnold Bros. Building where Zocalo now calls home, or the long-lost Alhambra Theater, you have one man to thank for...

Deftone Bassist Chi Ling Dai Cheng Passes Away

The Sacramento music scene suffered a blow this weekend when Deftones bassist Chi Ling Dai Cheng died of what sounds like blow back injuries from a car accident he was in back in 2008, but cause of death has not been confirmed. Since the accident he ha...

Gang Related Shootings Put Sacramento Residents On Edge

Apr 12, 2013

According to stats from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, there are an estimated 12,000 gang member in the greater Sacramento area. Over the past week, officials believe that many of those members have been responsible for a rash of s...

Sergio Says: Sacramento’s not racist, it just has some racists living here

Apr 12, 2013

I never thought of Sacramento as a dangerous place to live, or even a negative place for that matter. For the most part, I love this city and all it has going for it, no matter how much shit I may talk about it. I mean, it must be great, I have lived h...