Carnage

• Coroner identifies man killed by light-rail train in Rancho Cordova (2013-08-25)
• UPDATE: Man struck and killed by train in midtown (SacBee 2013-08-21)
• I’m never sure whether to list these walker vs. train and light rail collisions – do they have anything to do with a safe transportation system or not? Since there is rarely followup information in the media, except sometimes the name of the victim, most of these kind of incidents remain ill-defined, and their significance unknown.

Big Box

• Biz leaders cheer city’s big-box vote (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-08-21)
• Sacramento City Council eases restrictions on ‘big-box’ stores (SacBee 2013-08-20)
• Sacramento considers changing big-box rules (Sacramento Business Journal 2013-08-20)
• City Council to vote on superstore policy tonight (SacBee 2013-08-20)
• Editorial: City should dump ‘superstore’ rules (SacBee 2013-08-20)
• [Poll] City to vote on big-box ordinance (Sacramento Press 2013-08-20)
• Sacramento Stonewall Democrats Oppose Repeal of Superstore Ordinance (Sacramento Press 2013-08-20)
• The Walmart fallacy (Sacramento News & Review 2013-08-19)

Other

• Davis housing project must overcome city’s anti-growth streak (SacBee 2013-08-23)
• Another View: McKinley Village will be an asset to Sacramento (SacBee 2013-08-22)
• Caltrans plans project to ease Capital City Freeway bottleneck in east Sacramento (SacBee 2013-08-22)
• California’s Unusual Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases (Atlantic Cities 2013-08-19); the SACOG plan for the Sacramento region is one of three discussed
• Exposures: I Care: Bicycle Kitchen serves up help on a shoestring budget (SacBee 2013-08-19)