Girl and city settle suit over seats in theatre

ArticleThe city puts a young lady in a wheelchair at the back of the bus(theater) to save a dollar, and the story ends by costing the city $190,000.
Let’s see, in January 2008 lawyer makes administrative claim for a teenage girl in wheelchair so she could see the theater from the orchestra section. It would have cost city $80,000 to make necessary repairs. But the city let the time for reply lapse (translate- ignored it). Mother and daughter sue and the city settles the suit for the $80,000 in repairs plus another $190,000 because they let time “lapse”. One definition of lapse is “to stop doing something gradually”. It seems the powers that be are very good at stopping doing something gradually. Is this why nothing gets done in Sacramento?
The icing on the cake is they do it in response to a suit over a disabled girl’s wish to see the theater. What will it be next? Eliminating safe crossings for kindergartners.
Save some pocket change, forget the people and keep the royal kingdom of the High Council of Cronies in Ol’ Sack bumping along. One step forward and two back.

Sacramento Cronies try to keep us in the dark ages

A little background for those who don't live in Sacramento.-
In November '08 we elected Kevin Johnson a former NBA star as mayor.
Since then he has tried to move our city forward, but a bunch of old, crotchety, comfortable cronies sit and oppose everything that resembles progress that Kevin's charisma, connections and just plain chutzpah have been trying to do.
Namely a sports and entertainment complex.

This is my letter to the editor regarding this story from the front page. (It's a great story)

An expert in “hardball” is just what Sacramento needs to bang against the hard heads that have stalled Sacramento for so long. Instead of rusting rails and more manure, we desperately need a “Master of Disaster” to come stir things up. I for one applaud Mayor Kevin Johnsons efforts to build an entertainment and sports complex in Sacramento.
The looming fear that haunts me though, is that the old guard will keep guarding and never really proceed forward. I am continually amazed but not surprised at the ruling party’s rancor whenever Kevin Johnson’s connections, charisma or chutzpah are let out of the bag. The mayor has made an excellent choice and demonstrated once again that given the opportunity to govern as a strong mayor, our city would finally be given the green light to move ahead into what should be called “world class”.
Will the old guard move aside and let the people that move things, move them?
If not, we might as well change the signs at the city limits to “Here lies Old Sack-Lots of Giddy Up but not enough Go”.