O’Connell, an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles who was found fatally shot at his home on Saturday. Reproductive Freedom Alliance: Democratic governors in 20 states, including California, are forming the Reproductive Freedom Alliance, a network intended to strengthen abortion access, The Associated Press reports.Ĭhance of snow: A winter storm passing through California this week may bring snow to unusually low elevations, including hills in the San Francisco Bay Area and on the highest peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains, The Los Angeles Times reports.īishop killing: The authorities arrested Carlos Medina in connection with the killing of David G. Storing rain: Torrential rains this winter could have helped to replenish the state’s depleted aquifers, but water agencies and experts say state bureaucracy, intended to distribute water fairly, has stood in the way.īarbara Lee: Representative Barbara Lee, the highest-ranking Black woman appointed to Democratic leadership in the House and a leading antiwar voice, entered the 2024 Senate race in California on Tuesday. “It’s like the Bat Signal,” said Doug Christie, a Kings assistant coach who was a key player from 2000-05 when the team had success. After wins, fans rush out of the arena to take photos of the beam and even kiss under it. There’s a “Light the Beam” song and beam-branded merchandise. It’s a cheesy, silly gimmick, and we fans go nuts for it. If the Kings win that game, against the Portland Trail Blazers, you can expect a player in the arena to press a fake button to “light” the beam, which is formed by a half-dozen 300-watt “ Laser Space Cannons” - approved by the Federal Aviation Administration - on the roof. A coveted playoff berth is within reach when the All Star Break ends and the Kings resume play Thursday in Sacramento. The result has been an offensive explosion that’s pushed Sacramento to third place in the Western Conference. The Kings hired Coach Mike Brown and paired the star point guard De’Aaron Fox with Domantas Sabonis, a gifted Lithuanian American center. A new owner, Vivek Ranadive, promised to keep the Kings in Sacramento and build an arena downtown.Īll of that suffering has made the team’s current success even sweeter. But fans in this town with one major league sports franchise packed council meetings and held rallies. In the early 2010s, amid efforts to move the team to Seattle or Anaheim, the Kings’ departure seemed so imminent that their television announcers once bid a tearful farewell. The Kings passed up generational superstars in the draft and bungled games for so long that fans gave them a nickname, sort of their hapless alter ego: the Kangz.īut fans stayed loyal. The playoff drought during my formative years has been extraordinarily depressing. My first lasting memory is a negative one: my dad picking me up from school and informing me the Kings had traded Mike Bibby, my favorite player. Growing up in Davis, 20 minutes from Sacramento, I have only faint recollections of the glory days. A controversial playoff loss to the Los Angeles Lakers and a career-altering knee injury to Webber ended the Kings’ success. “It’s rapidly changing from a traditional government town to something more dynamic,” said Mayor Darrell Steinberg, a Kings fan who has lived in Sacramento for nearly 40 years. While the remote work culture has reduced the number of government employees downtown, it has made the Sacramento region an attractive destination for residents priced out of the Bay Area. But boosters still see a city with promise. The state capital is also struggling to address homelessness and a lack of affordable housing.
Just as tech workers haven’t returned to San Francisco’s downtown, many state office employees haven’t returned to Sacramento’s city core on a daily basis. The city was enjoying a resurgence in the years before Covid, but as has been the case elsewhere, the pandemic hit the downtown hard. Less glamorous than Los Angeles and less affluent than San Francisco, Sacramento has long been overlooked.
“Seeing people excited, seeing people going, ‘Light the beam,’ all those things, it’s been cool to see.” “These fans have been loyal for so many years, and for a long time things just haven’t come together,” said Harrison Barnes, one of the Kings’ starting forwards.
The beam was introduced this season - just as the team had begun to show real promise - and it fittingly has become a beacon of hope.
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