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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Last month a Sacramento area pilot took a series of videos showing the lack of security at our nation’s airports. He posted the videos to Youtube. The pilot was then reprimanded by the TSA.

The videos show how ground crews at San Francisco International Airport were able to access secure areas with ease. “As you can see, airport security is kind of a farce. It’s only smoke and mirrors so you people believe there is actually something going on here,” the pilot narrates on one of the videos.

The pilot says he has worked for his airline for over 10 years. He also served as an Army reserve helicopter test pilot. He was deputized by the TSA to carry a gun in the cockpit. The pilot wanted to do what he could to draw attention to what he says is still a major problem in airport security.

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Jerry Brown the next Governor of California as selected his new home. Brown and his wife, Anne Gust Brown, will reside at 1530 J. They have selected a one bedroom loft. The building also contains P.F. Chang’s China Bistro and Mikuni Japanese Restaurants. The CHP, who is responsible for the Governor’s security, has approved the location.

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Who can hide a grocery store under a plastic cup? The Sacramento County Planning Commission and Doug Weile of Foothill Partners can.

Planning Commissioners JOE DEBBS, ALEX LAIEWSKI, PATRICK MAXFIELD, GREG PETERSON, and HOWARD YEE should be ashamed of themselves. One-by-one, they voted. And one-by-one, they set their nail in the coffin that will always be known as Plaza Foods. I had to ask myself how such a decision came to be…. how could each man knowingly cast a vote that will destroy a local small business?

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Union members protested a Meg Whitman fundraiser last night in downtown Sacramento. The California Labor Federation is upset with Meg Whitman for having a $25,000 per plate fundraiser. 50 people protested outside the Elks Building. Meanwhile, another 25 people turned out for the fundraising dinner.

The unions are accustomed to buying politicians and are having a tough time with Meg Whitman because she is not for sale. Jerry Brown who is running against Whitman has been supported by the big unions for a long time.

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Crews in West Sacramento chopped down an 125-year-old butternut tree to make room for a “high-density” business, shopping and residential development, despite a resident’s bid to save the tree in Yolo County Superior Court.

In her July petition seeking to block the tree’s removal, Lana Paulhamus said the city “is responsible for assuring that our natural resources are not destroyed willy-nilly.” Arborists told the Sacramento Bee that the tree, with its 22-foot trunk, was “one of the largest in the region and perhaps the biggest butternut tree in the United States.” They reportedly said the tree was “in fair to good condition and would live 20 to 40 years more with moderate care.”

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Hundreds of people gathered in Sacramento to remember Republican state Sen. Dave Cox. The gathering on Thursday was in remembrance of the man they said dedicated his life to service.

The Sacramento-area lawmaker’s memorial took place several blocks from the Capitol, where he served for 12 years in the Assembly and Senate, including three years as Assembly minority leader. The 72-year-old Cox died at his home July 13 after a 13-year battle with prostate cancer.

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