Pink slip will go out today to Sacramento Regional Transit District employees. The layoff are just the first round of budget saving cuts that RT will make.

Alaine Masui with Regional Transit confirmed that several employees will be getting layoff notices some time Friday. Up to 300 RT employees will the cut by summertime, but it was unclear how many would be cut in this first round.

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Two people in a Pocket-area home were not hurt when a sports utility vehicle plowed into their living room just after noon Monday. The woman and her 2-year-old granddaughter had just left the front of the house and were in another part of the residence when the crash occurred, according to authorities.

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Alex Stoffel will get $50,000 from the city of Sacramento and her attorney will get $140,000.

Why? Did the City of Sacramento do something to Stoffel? No the Sacramento Community Center Theater does not have user-friendly seating for the disabled.

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Early this morning a man was killed in a car accident on Highway 99 in south Sacramento. five others were injured in a car accident. The accident occurred just before 1 a.m.

According to the California Highway Patrol a car travelling northbound on Highway 99 north of Mack Road lost control and hit the center divider. Another vehicle travelling behind hit that car, ejecting the driver upon impact. A family of five was in the second car that hit the vehicle in the center divide and were all taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

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Sacramento police officers took a group of kids shopping on Sunday.  Dozens of kids went to Target in Natomas for their Christmas shopping.  It was part of the “Sacramento Family Holiday” event.  There were a total of 15 families that attended.  Each family received about $200 each to purchase toys, clothes, and other items from the store.  Then they all headed to Sofia’s Italian Restaurant in Sacramento.

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Yes it’s snowing in the greater Sacramento area. Send you photos to sacramento@fromthecapitol.com and we will publish them online.

The foothills actually have enough to sled on. Schools in some foothill school districts are closed.

If you want to protect marriage you must ban divorce, at least according to one Sacramento man. John Marcotte, a 38-year-old married father of two, wants to put a measure on the ballot next year to ban divorce in California. He wants “‘Until death do you part” to mean what it says.

When California voters outlawed same-sex marriage in 2008, supporters of Prop 8 argued it was needed to protect the sanctity of marriage. So Marcotte is using the same approach to make a satirical statement about marriages.

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The Capitol Corridor train service is now running “clean” trains between Oakland and the Capitol City. They also have plans for more “clean trains”.

Locomotive 2015 is the first train in the line to get a $900,000 retrofit. A large amount of pollution has been eliminated from its massive diesel engine. The locomotive will operate on the Capitol Corridor line between Sacramento and the Bay Area.

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Sacramento news agency News10.net is not publishing stories about a single resident traveling to Saudi Arabia and the fact that he will wear a face mask in “very very crowded areas”. Sacramento has now joined the nation in their H1N1 frenzy.

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Developer dollars make businesses disappear at least for Sacramento County staff. Looks like a developer has told the Sacramento County Planning Department that an entire shopping center did not exist. The developer was there to save the day with their new construction project. The county could not see past the dollar to see that an entire shopping complex already existed. I love this quote from the Sacramento Bee article.

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