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Here are some amazing photos of the inside of the Roseville Galleria Mall after the fire yesterday. As you can see the damage is substantial: Now for the story within a story … These photos do not belong to KCRA.com.

For months – years in fact – we’ve been hearing about how Sacramento County does not have any money, has a huge budget deficit, needs to lay off non-managers, and so on. Now the yearly State Fair is upon us.

It used to be that all my Internet searches were with Google. But the last couple months have seen a drastic change in Google – none for the better. Now, Bing gets most of my searches. Then Yahoo. Finally Google

Is “terrible” too strong a word? I thought this was a current book, created now in 2010 with ‘Megatrends’ projections for the next decade. I read the original Megatrends, thought it was really good, so was anxious to read the

There is a story that sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that “the Devil is at work inside the Vatican”, according to the Holy See’s chief exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth. Father Amorth apparently became an

Sooo, right smack in the middle of a huge public discussion about health care, insurance costs, bills in Congress to regulate costs and providing health care, and demands by the President, the tone-deaf idiots at Wellpoint, owners of Anthem Blue

If you’re looking for a Laser Tag place in Sacramento, as I have been, there are surprisingly few options – and no directory of area locations. So here ya go! Laser Tag of Carmichael – website – This appears to

Ralph Lauren is in the news for using what appears to be a photoshopped ad of a model whose head is larger than her pelvis. Is that humanly possible? It appears to be a vain effort to change the looks

Burger King announced it is making over its restaurants to make them look ‘edgier’ – at a whopper of a cost at $500,000 per restaurant. It had been about 7 years since I’ve eaten at a Burger King or McDonalds,