Local radio station "The Zone 100.5", is currently running a contest in which listeners can win $25,000.00! That's great, right? Well, not so fast!

While I must admit that this contest is legal, morally is not a word I would use to describe it. Basically there is an "Outlaw" that has $25,000.00 and if you can follow the clues, you can find the location of this "Outlaw" and win the 25 grand.

What the radio station is not telling you upfront, is that you really are not getting $25,000.00, at least not right away. Upon choosing a winner, that person will receive a Share Certificate from the Sacramento Credit Union in the amount of $3,440.00. Upon maturation the Share Certificate will be valued at $25,000.00. This takes 10 years.

One Prize will be award: The Prize consists of a $3,440.00 Share Certificate from Sacramento Credit Union. Upon maturation, the Share Certificate will be valued at $25,000. ARV at the time the prize is won: $3,465.00. The winner of the share certificate will be subject to the terms and conditions as set forth by Sacramento Credit Union:

Initial Deposit: $3,440.00 to be supplied by Sacramento Credit Union (Winner must join the credit union. Failure to join voids winning Share Certificate offer. Sacramento Credit Union will supply the $25 to open and waive the $5 member fee.)

Annual Percentage Rate: 20%

Term of Share Certificate: 10 years from open date (certificate will not earn interest after the maturity date)

100.5 The Zone "Outlaw" Contest Rules

If for some reason the link stops working, you can view a PDF of the rules HERE.

While I have to give them credit for a clever contest, I cannot go along with the misleading of their listeners. In this day and age, $25,000.00 could go a long way. People could pay bills, save for college, etc... We have people losing their homes right now due to high foreclosures. Maybe the $25,000.00 could prevent one person from having that happen to them.

I hope that 100.5 the Zone, steps up, corrects this and gives the winner the full $25,000.00 and not a Share Certificate that matures in 2018.

A man on a bicycle has been robbing people at gunpoint in the Natomas area of Sacramento, police said.
Authorities said the bike bandit has been cruising through Natomas, holding up residents and then riding away. Police said the man has tried to rob people at three different homes, attacking them as their vehicles pull into driveways.

Michelle Lazark, spokeswoman for Sacramento Police Department, said the victims are often preoccupied with getting their familiies out of their cars and into their homes.

"He's aggressive, he's violent and he's willing to use a gun," Lazark said. Attacks have taken place on Vosspark Way, Bridgecross Drive and Arnold Gamble Circle. Local residents said they are worried.

"It shatters your confidence in your community," resident David Waldrop said. "You don't feel safe."

Police are searching for a man who roams a north Sacramento neighborhood on a bicycle and attempts to rob people as they pull into their driveways.

There were three such robberies over the weekend in Natomas, a vast neighborhood of newer homes that has experienced a wave of foreclosures.

At one home, the robber shot his intended victim in the buttocks as he tried to escape into his house.

Police say the robber confronts people while they are unloading their cars. He then brandishes a weapon and demands money.

CBS 13 News

According to fellow blogger Craig DeLuz, Eric Hogue is being replaced. Hogue currently hosts the morning conservative talk show on KTKZ.

Hogue played a key role in the recall of former Governor Gray Davis. Now what, KTKZ got their ratings up and suddenly think they are large enough to dump their anchor? KTKZ is a Salem owned stattion.

Craig DeLuz has given us a contact; edwarda@salem.cc. Send this guy an email and let him know you want Eric to Stay.

A local Sacramento school is recommending that children walk to school.  Regency Park Elementary which is part of the Rio Linda Union School District, is asking parents NOT to drive their kids to school.  In an effort to keep children away from moving cars, the school is redesigning it's drop off and pick up policy.

In a letter sent home to parents, it starts off with the following paragraph:

  We are encouraging all families living in the Regency Park Community to allow their students to walk to and from school each day.  Kids today don't have as many opportunities to be as physically active as they once did.  At school, physical education time is just 200 minutes every two weeks and is not conducted by a specialist.  Today's children have a wider variety of television programs and video games to entertain them.  These realities are keeping kids from getting regular phyisical activity and may be contributing to a growing number of overweight children, which has increased by 63% over the past 30 years.

We received a seven page handout outlining the schools plan.  You can view it here in .PDF format.

Ok, so it sounds like I am complaining about something good the school is attempting to do.  Wrong!  That's not it at all.  I am all for the fact that the school wants to implement an enviroment that is more safe for our children. 

What I am against is the fact that the school is pushing us to have our children walk to school.  This program needs to be thought out further before they implement it.  Children who are in the First, Second, or even Third grade should not be left alone to walk to school unless it is absolutely necessary.  It is a parents choice and NOT the schools.  Are they going to provide security or protection for my children as they walk to school?  No. 

There are dangerous and vile people out there who prey on kids walking alone.  I went to Megan's Law website and put in the two zip codes that cover my general area and the area my children would have to pass through to get to school.  The database located three individuals that my kids would have to go right by twice a day.  Uh, I don't think so! 

This blog called both Regency Park Elementary School as well as Rio Linda Union School District for comment.  Both declined.  One cited that they were looking in to the matter due to the influx of telephone calls. 

In closing, I am in no way against our children getting additional excercise.  Nor am I against a safer enviroment around vehicles.  I am against the school trying to persuade parents to have their children walk to school so they have less vehicles to deal with. 

On the "Driving Around the School" map on the PDF, they make a statement,  Driving around the school, "IF YOU MUST", follow this path.  "IF I MUST", you're damn skippy I must...

Today our friend and fellow blogger Sacto Dan, started his internship at KTKZ. Today it's phones, tomorrow it's coffee what's next for blogger/journalist?

Live from New York, it's the Sacto Dan Show...

With his level of passion and articulation, I would gladly tune in if Sacto Dan was guest hosting.