S.O.C. (save our city)

OK, I can see you guys are all in a lather over my blue-eyed soul post so now that you've had time to calm down it's time for me to start complaining again. The new News and Review is out today. I can't read KW's review yet because even though it's only 11:15 I'm ravenously hungry. From just skimming my eyes over it it sounds amazing, and I'm on the Korean tip lately, too, so I'll have to go. She also clues the readers in to a Philipino market that I hope to be visiting soon. So far, so good, right? Another lighthearted column from Becca Costello, that's her deal, this week she dressed up like Dinger. The problem here? Our entire city is being sold up the river by the mayor and city council (I know I'm being dramatic but it IS dramatic) and they are barely reporting on it. This city is filled with muck about knee deep and they are not raking it. There are so many stories to be looked into and this week the cover story is about the Placer county eco-terrorists. Cosmo wrote it, and i'm sure it's a good, well-researched article. Last week the cover story was about people in Sac who have creative jobs. Where's the sense of urgency? Where's the digging? Why aren't they busting the chops of the city council, the mayor, channel 10, the Bee, the Maloofs, Thomas enterprises etc. every single week? There are billions at stake here and this city is in the midst of what looks like a gold rush to developers all over the country and most people downtown and in surrounding areas don't know and it's debatable whether they care. But some of the back-door dealing and alliances are pretty scandalous so it can be juicy depending on how you look at it. The Bee won't do it, and no one else has the resources to do it, we need the News and Review to have our back. Cosmo has written some good urban planning articles in the past, but we need more! There really is no other issue as important in Sac for now (besides flood control, but there's plenty of muck to be raked there, too, and maybe someday we'll literally be knee deep in it, hope not). The citizens need to wake up and realize the scope of what's going on under their noses. It's too late for a lot of projects, like the twin towers (and there's a story to be told there involving inadequate planning and funding for emergency services to these large buildings), but we need to wake up and speak up before the serious development gets underway in the railyards. SRD is trying to get educated and have an impact, but the SNR has a built-in readership and a way to reach people. What about the shady connections between Rob Fong and the Maloofs? What about the loopholes in zoning restrictions that are being exploited right and left? I could go on. We don't need any more cover stories about dirt biking, we need someone to report on this stuff. Bites covers this a bit, too, and there is a brief mention of the arena in her/his column, and maybe they are working on some big stories right now, the News and Review is a rad local resource, don't get me wrong. I just think they need to hammer this stuff into peoples heads week after week, the same way the Bee and the local news does on a daily basis, but with facts, not propaganda.