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Poll: Torrid heat makes some people seek shelter in public cooling centers. But in most cases, cooling centers don't open until the community endures three consecutive days of extreme heat. Is this good policy?
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Since more than one thousand fires were started by lightning strikes more than two weeks ago, an incredible
630,000 acres have been destroyed across our state. Luckily, there's been minimal loss to homes and human life.
But what about wildlife? Animals are losing their natural habitat, along with their food and water resources. What is happening to them? Kitty and RE spoke with
Kevin Schaeffer, a wildlife biologist with the
California Department of Fish and Game.
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to listen to the interview.
The Obsessive Compulsive Foundation has a new National Spokesperson, and it's someone who may be familiar to KFBK audiences. Jeff Bell was a morning and afternoon news anchor here for many years before moving to the Bay Area. Jeff has gone to write a book on the subject, and is now representing a national organization. Kitty spoke with Jeff about his book. You can buy his book on
Amazon.com
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to listen to the interview
Jessica Hawthorne, employment attorney with
CalBizCentral, a division of the California Chamber of Commerce, joined the Afternoon News with some guidelines for businesses to follow for dealing with hot weather and the workplace. You can find tips to help employers prevent heat related illness
here.
Is RE Graswich running for city council?
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Poll: The Governor proposes an additional $12 to property taxes to help raise $70 million for state firefighting resources.
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This week on McGinness Monday, Kitty and RE discuss fire tax and gang tax with Sacramento County Sheriff John McGinness.
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to listen to the segment.
A new AP Yahoo News poll finds people are divided over whether they like Michelle Obama and see Cindy McCain as a mystery. Branding expert and author of the book "
Get Noticed",
Jill Lublin joined Kitty and RE to talk about how the two women are percieved by the public. For more information and how to buy the book visit
jilllublin.com.
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to listen to the interview.
With gas prices no end in sight to rising gas prices, the front page of the
Wall Street Journal features the "
Smart Growth Blueprint" put forth by the
Sacramento Regional Planning Agency. The blueprint would cluster the places where people live with where they work and shop. The author of the piece,
Ana Compoy, joined Kitty and RE to talk about how the idea is catching on around the country.
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Kitty and her husband Kurt were featured in the Sacramento Bee.
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Poll: Have the fires and/or economy changed your holiday plans?
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Poll: Rush Limbaugh has just renewed his contract with a deal estimated to be worth $400 million through 2016. He says said the new contract would pay him about $38 million a year for eight years. He also said he would receive a $100 million signing bonus, in addition to other perks.
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Click Here to listen to what Rush Limbaugh had to say about his new contract.
Tom Sullivan phoned in to the Afternoon News and gave his comments on Rush Limbaugh's new contract.
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The first of two record breaking shipments of care packages to our troops are being shipped off today. The effort, by Sacramento pro troop organization Move America Forward, has been backed and supported by President Bush and his wife Laura, Rush, and Oliver North. For more information visit
www.moveamericaforward.org. Kitty and Paul spoke with
Melanie Morgan from Move America Forward.
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to listen to the interview
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