California's Proposition 50 is having ripple effects across the political spectrum that could reach Elk Grove Mayoral and City Council elections.

There is talk that State Senator Angelique Asby may enter the race for the 6th Congressional District.

So what is all the fuss from the City of Elk Grove over the soon-to-open Maverik truck fueling depot on Highway 99 and Grant Line Road?

On Wednesday, November 12, the Elk Grove City Council will hear an appeal of a decision by the Elk Grove Planning Commission allowing a large fueling station on the city's southside.

The following is an audio recording by Mr. Jay Salhan urging the Elk Grove City Council to grant the appeal in the interest of maintaining the city's balanced community.

Many listeners will undoubtedly recognize our introduction music in this podcast as Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

It was 50 years ago, on November 10, 1975, that the Great Lake freighter Lightfoot, called the Pride of the American side, sank in a ferocious Lake Superior storm near Michigan’s Whitefish Point. The tragedy has become part of American folklore, particularly in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

Instead of talking about the sinking, we are taking a slightly different look at this now legendary ship. We will speak to a person who was at the June 1958 Launch of the Edmund Fitzgerald in River Rouge. Michigan.

As with every cycle, this year’s elections in many ways resembled 2024. Trump won his second term based on how people felt about the economy.

 This year, as their personal finances worsened, the elections became a referendum on, among other things, Trump’s economic performance.

Much has been written and spoken about Donald Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing to make way for a ballroom, or as some say, a throne room.

Last weekend, October 18, 225, was the second No Kings protest across the nation, including Elk Grove.

While the protest drew massive crowds decrying the Trump administration, will it move the meter on anything that is happening?

While channel surfing recently, much to my surprise, I saw Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, of all people, engaged in a serious interview on CNN.

In what some describe as "cult-based obstruction," Republican Speaker Mike Johnson has delayed swearing in Arizona's new Democratic congressmember.

This action is not because Congress is out of session, as Johnson claims.

In the last few weeks, there have been considerable conversation about Presidents Trump’s deployment of national guard to American cities like Chicago and Portland.

There have been court orders telling the President to stop his actions and considerable commentary about how to deal with it, and more importantly the implications ofthese actions.

In this edition of Elk Grove News Podcast, we’ll listen to three statewide elected officials – two from Illinois and one from California and their views and the implications, and in the case of one official, how it should be dealt with.