Sacramento Mayor and City Council
Races More than 20 people are vying for the Mayor's
seat and four Sacramento City Council seats in this Tuesday's
election. District 2 and District 4 are possibly the closest watched
council races since Rob Fong and Sandy Sheedy have decided not to
run for reelection and neither district has an incumbent
candidate. Senior Staff Writer for the Sacramento
News and Review, Cosmo Garvin, has been profiling the candidates
and joins us to explain which candidates are running strong and
which are falling by the wayside. If you'd like to see a
one-minute video of each candidate explaining why you should elect
them, click HERE.
Let's Get Healthy California California
Governor Jerry Brown ordered the creation of the Let's
Get Healthy California Task Force through the Health and Human
Services Agency. The task force has three goal intended to help
Californians get healthcare coverage to reduce preventable and
chronic diseases. A press release announcing the task force's
mission and members is expected today. We'll talk to Health and Human Services Director Diane Dooley
about the talk about it and its goals.
Slow Food Slow Food is an international organization,
founded in Italy 1986, that uses a varied means of outreach to
protect traditional foods from dying off and promote the art of
good eating. Slow Food Sacramento is one of more than 200
chapters of Slow Food USA, which has over 80,000 members in over
100 countries. We'll speak about the
movement with Delaine Eastin, a member of the steering committee
for the Davis Farm School. Slow Food Sacramento's next
event will be at Rosemont High School June 9.
Rail Tales Brian Green has been riding
Sacramento Regional Transit Light Rail for most of two
decades, but it was only in the last few years - with the advent of
portable electronic devices and social media outlets - that he
decided to post stories to Facebook about all the unique people he
interacts with everyday. When Brian accumulated more than 600
friends and 200 posts on Facebook he decided to write 'Rail Tales.' The book is 100 pages and
consists of small stories/vignettes - laid out by month. It
also includes random photos Brian has taken on light rail train
rides throughout Sacramento. We joined Brian on his normal commute
route and asked him to explain the
inspiration for his tales. Brian will be selling and
signing copies of his book at Midtown Village Cafe/Coffeehouse on Saturday, June
9.