'Healing Wall' holds names and a message

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — APRIL 3, 2013 – I put together a little section in the News-Ledger most weeks entitled “Across the Bridge” which is meant to give some publicity to events happening around the greater Sacramento area that some of our readers might want to attend. One such calendar announcement came across my desk [...]

A new generation takes the field, joins Little League tradition

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — MARCH 6, 2013 – Well, spring is already here, or at least it sure feels like it. The sun has been out for weeks, birds are chirping, and I’ve already had my first mosquito bite. Actually, the way I have always known that spring has finally arrived in Northern California is [...]

Things I won't miss about the Kings

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — JAN 16, 2013 – As I write this, the less-than-beloved Maloof family have apparently sold the Sacramento Kings to a group of wealthy Seattle, Washington investors headed by some hedge fund guy named Chris Hansen. The selling price appears to be about $525 million, which should go a long way in [...]

They could have been anybody's kids

NEWS-LEDGER — DEC 26, 2012 – ‘MY BACK PAGES’: Daryl Fisher’s column So, just what is the “Bushmaster .223 AR-15” assault rifle that was used to slaughter 20 grade school children and six of their female teachers and administrators a week ago last Friday in Newtown, Connecticut? To begin with, it’s actually a demilitarized version [...]

Life in America before 'Black Friday'

NEWS-LEDGER — NOV 21, 2012 – NEWS-LEDGER COLUMN BY DARYL FISHER This year I decided I wasn’t going to wait until the very last minute to do all my Christmas shopping so off I went this past Saturday to a shopping mall in downtown Sacramento. I quickly found what I was looking for and was [...]

$375 for a ticket to a nose-bleed seat?

FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — OCT 31, 2012 – BY DARYL FISHER   Note: This column was written the day after game one of this year’s World Series, when actually winning the World Series still seemed like a long shot to me and many other Northern California baseball fans of the San Francisco Giants. It sure [...]

Getting older & getting grumpier

FROM THE WEST SACRAMENTO NEWS-LEDGER NEWSPAPER — SEPT 26, 2012 – I was having a somewhat heated conversation with a friend the other night when she suddenly got right in my face and blurted out, “You know, Daryl, you’re getting to be a grumpy old man!” “What?” I exclaimed with a smile, sure that she [...]

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