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06/21/11 Mayor Kevin Johnson is returning home today from a weekend U.S. Conference of Mayors event in Washington, D.C.
06/01/11 In his quest to convince residents from Lincoln to Galt that paying for a new sports arena in downtown Sacramento makes sense, Mayor Kevin Johnson is convening a task force larger than the state Senate.
05/16/11 While LeBron James seeks an NBA title, the Cleveland Cavaliers are searching for a new franchise player. A month after doing his part to save pro basketball in Sacramento, Mayor Kevin Johnson is coming back east in hopes of helping the Kings find a saviour.
05/16/11 A month after doing his part to save pro basketball in Sacramento, Mayor Kevin Johnson is coming back east in hopes of helping the Kings find a saviour.
05/16/11 BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer While LeBron James seeks an NBA title, the Cleveland Cavaliers are searching for a new franchise player. A month after doing his part to save pro basketball in Sacramento, Mayor Kevin Johnson is coming back east in hopes of helping the Kings find a savior. And the Minnesota Timberwolves, perennial lottery losers, have the best odds of finally claiming that ...
05/01/11 The Sacramento Kings have until Monday to ask the NBA for permission to leave town. The team's owners are negotiating a move to Anaheim, which would give the Los Angeles area three NBA teams and leave California's state capital without a single big-time sports franchise. Capital Public Radio's Ben Adler reports on the man leading Sacramento's effort to keep the Kings: Mayor Kevin Johnson ...
04/27/11 The NBA left town Tuesday. There's no guarantee it will be back. Mayor Kevin Johnson, business leaders and fans have done all they could in the past few months to prevent the Sacramento Kings from relocating to Anaheim.
04/05/11 BY ANTONIO GONZALEZ The Associated Press Sacramento isn't losing its NBA team without a fight. Mayor Kevin Johnson plans to attend the NBA Board of Governors meeting next month to plead Sacramento's case to keep the Kings. The former NBA All-Star wrote on his blog Thursday night that he will give...
12/29/10 For Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, 2011 will likely provide a replay of many of the major themes that dominated City Hall last year.
11/07/10 SACRAMENTO - Mayor Kevin Johnson is back to square one in his efforts to keep the Kings from leaving from Sacramento.
11/05/10 SACRAMENTO - Mayor Kevin Johnson said Thursday he would be in favor of merging some areas of Sacramento city and county to cut down on wasteful spending and help balance future budgets.
07/15/10 From Sacramento to Washington, D.C., social media and the mainstream press are all atwitter about Mayor Kevin Johnson's upcoming marriage to longtime love Michelle Rhee, the chief of District of Columbia public schools.
06/23/10 Sacramento's City Council has rejected Mayor Kevin Johnson's plan to increase the power of the mayor's office, prompting an angry response from the mayor and former NBA star.
05/04/10 Mayor Kevin Johnson, FOX40 Launch Campaign to Get Sacramento On the Map We're trying to put Sacramento on the map, because it literally isn't there.
02/26/10 Mayor Kevin Johnson, nothing if not ambitious, set the loftiest of goals in his second State of the City address: to make Sacramento the national leader in the green economy.
01/20/10 Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper boosted Mayor Kevin Johnson's campaign to create a strong mayor in Sacramento on Tuesday, touting the cooperation such a system fostered in his own region.
01/16/10 Is there suddenly only one horse in Sacramento's arena race? Mayor Kevin Johnson and the head of his arena task force say they're not yet putting any proposal ahead of the others.
12/24/09 The Bee's editorial "Mayor's first year a work in progress" (Editorials, Dec. 20), said Mayor Kevin Johnson "has shown meager direct interest in the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency, creating a leadership vacuum at SAFCA at a time when rapid levee improvements are essential for this city's public safety and economy."
12/16/09 Four months after issuing an ultimatum to the owner of Sacramento's struggling Downtown Plaza, Mayor Kevin Johnson announced Tuesday that the owner has signaled that it's willing to sell.
09/09/09 Mayor Kevin Johnson has made it very clear he wants to have a bigger hand in the city's public
08/08/09 Mayor Kevin Johnson got what he wanted Thursday by doing what he had mostly avoided during his first eight months in office. He politicked. |