Folsom based Waste Connections, Inc., said today it’s moving its headquarters to The Woodlands, Texas. Waste Connections, Inc is a trash hauling company. Waste Connections is one of the Sacramento area’s fastest growing companies as well the largest publicly traded company in Sacramento County.

The company has been unhappy with the anti-business climate in California and is moving to a much more business friendly state.

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Entering their 7th day a group of local Sacramento residents occupy Cesar Chavez Park. When asked what their message or agenda is they cannot give any type of clear and concise answer.

The group consists of people that are angry and want to blame someone as well as people just fed up with big corporations. The protesters claim is they are the “99 percent”. They are referring to not being one on the top 1% of the rich in the United States. While the reality is most of the “99 percent” are currently hard at work not protesting in a park.

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The Sacramento City Council voted 7-2 to approve spending $555,000 on the consultants for the new arena. The only decenting votes came from Sandy Sheedy and Darrell Fong. Sheedy said “a limit to what we can do in terms of funding an arena.” . . . “We are moving ahead with money that we can’t spend,”. While Darrell Fong wanted more outside involvement saying he had “serious concerns” that other local government are not spending any money on these consultants.

The money will be spent on lawyers, investment bankers, municipal financing consultants, parking experts, and other consultants. The consultants included firms like Barrett Sports Group.

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Sutter nurses staged a one day walkout last week and one person is allegedly dead because of it. A female patient at an Oakland hospital died due to what the hospital described as a “medical error” made while she was under the care of a replacement nurse hired during a labor dispute.

Sutter Health was forced to hire replacement nurses on five-day contracts, because union nurses refused to come to work on Thursday. The unions choice to put their own needs before patients is coming under fire. The replacement nurse would not have been hired if the union nurses did not walk away from their jobs.

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In an attempt to force legislatures to increase taxes California Teachers Association union members staged a protest at the state capitol yesterday. At 6pm when the capitol closed the union members refused to leave even when asked to do so by the California Highway Patrol. In the end 26 of the protesters were arrested.

“They chose not to leave, leaving us with no option but to physically remove them,” said CHP Officer Sean Kennedy.

Among those arrested was the California Teachers Association president David Sanchez. Sanchez said he was willing to be arrested “on behalf of the California students and our teachers who are in public education.”. The union Sanchez is in charge of takes $200 Million a year out of the pockets of teachers.

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The Sacramento County Employees Retirement System attempt to hide pension levels has failed in court. The County claimed that reveling pension levels would subject elderly retirees to harassment. A claim the court did agree with.

The Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento said the names, benefits and work histories of Sacramento County retirees are public information not protected by California privacy laws. “Public pensions are not private information,” Justice Elena Duarte said in the 3-0 ruling.

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The Elk Grove School district will be cutting bus transportation for some student starting next year. The cuts are due to the $40 million budget reduction from the state for the 2011-2012 school year. The district has cut $100 million from its budget in the last three years.

In addition to transportation cuts the EGUSD has sent layoff notices to hundreds of teachers.  The transportation cuts will affect services for kindergarten and 7th through 12th grade general education students.

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Mayor Kevin Johnson’s finance, Michelle Rhee, is moving her national organization, Students First, to Sacramento. Johnson made the announcement during his annual State of the City address. He said that Rhee had been wooed by mayors around the country and that he was “not ashamed to say that I pulled out all the stops and utilized every means I had, but I managed to snag her,” according to the Sacramento Bee.

Michelle Rhee has said she is attempting to raise $1 billion for her new effort to take on the teachers unions. The same teachers unions that care about power and influence and not about educating our children.

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Stabbing and murder are apparently not a serious crime in the eyes of Arnold Schwarzenegger. One of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s last official acts was to commute the manslaughter sentence of the son of former state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez.

Esteban Nuñez, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in the October 2008 stabbing death of college student Luis Dos Santos near San Diego State, had his prison term commuted to seven years by the governor.

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Jerry Brown will be sworn in as California’s 39th governor today. The event takes place at the Sacramento auditorium where Arnold Schwarzenegger began his second term in office. Jerry promises to kee the event low key.

Jerry Brown is scheduled to sworn in at Sacramento’s Memorial Auditorium at 11am. He’s reception will be in the afternoon at the city’s Railroad Museum.

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