Sacramento Ca Public Works

Operators of the troubled Rancho Seco nuclear power plant have been advised by an analyst to permanently close the plant rather than continue costly efforts to restart it after a two-year shutdown. "Our analysis shows closing the plant would save $200 million to $1 billion over the next 12 years," energy policy analyst Joseph Kriesberg told the Sacramento Municipal Utility District Board of Directors.

There are times when the heat is unbearable here, when the brisk march of life slows to a woozy crawl. During those times, the people give thanks to the trees. Without them, Sacramento would be a pitiful place, just another flat, dreary smudge on California's dun-colored plain. With them, the locals can survive the broiling days of August--and regale visitors with the dubious boast that their town is second only to Paris in per capita trees. But all is not well in the urban forest.

Sacramento public works officials say they were just having some fun when they started a contest to find a non-sexist term for manholes. But since the word got out, people from Florida to Canada have been lighting up the City Hall switchboard. Some of them want to know about "the women who are taking over the City Council," said council receptionist Sibyl Winterberger, adding that most callers just made "lewd and offensive suggestions." Mayor Anne Rudin called it "a tempest in a manhole."

Sacramento public works officials say they were just having some fun when they started a contest to find a non-sexist term for manholes. But since the word got out, people from Florida to Canada have been lighting up the City Hall switchboard. Some of them want to know about "the women who are taking over the City Council," said council receptionist Sibyl Winterberger, adding that most callers just made "lewd and offensive suggestions." Mayor Anne Rudin called it "a tempest in a manhole."

There are times when the heat is unbearable here, when the brisk march of life slows to a woozy crawl. During those times, the people give thanks to the trees. Without them, Sacramento would be a pitiful place, just another flat, dreary smudge on California's dun-colored plain. With them, the locals can survive the broiling days of August--and regale visitors with the dubious boast that their town is second only to Paris in per capita trees. But all is not well in the urban forest.

Operators of the troubled Rancho Seco nuclear power plant have been advised by an analyst to permanently close the plant rather than continue costly efforts to restart it after a two-year shutdown. "Our analysis shows closing the plant would save $200 million to $1 billion over the next 12 years," energy policy analyst Joseph Kriesberg told the Sacramento Municipal Utility District Board of Directors.