Jason Daniel has new blog

The online news scene in Elk Grove has grown by one.
Local Blogger Jason Daniel has taken his online presence to another level with the unveiling of capitalelector.com, a blog focusing on regional issues with contributions from a wide variety of local politicians and others. And, Daniel also unleashes his own opinions and views on the site.
Jason's other blog, Eyes of Argus had recently drifted from its Elk Grove roots and taken on a distinctly Sacramento tone with heavy coverage of the mayoral race between Heather Fargo and Kevin Johnson. Daniel has done a really solid job covering the local political scene with a mix of news and opinion while also juggling a full-time job and family life.
His political activism with the attempted-but-failed recall of City Council Members Jim Cooper and Mike Leary led him online and he's continued to educate the public with unique views and news about the region, covering issues from Stockton and Lodi to Elk Grove and Sacramento.
Daniel's two sites, along with Dan Gougherty's blog, Elk Grove News.net, give Elk Grove a unique presence in the Sacramento blogosphere.
More and more people are finding their news, and sharing their stories, online. In Elk Grove, these online resources help build community but also foster public awareness of issues. Our business - the old-time newspaper in your hand one - is changing with the many new technologies. Cell phones, digital cameras, bloggers, and citizen journalists are helping reshape the news world and re-defining what a "gatekeeper" is.
As we here at the Citizen move into the online world, we aim to serve you - our readers - with the same levels of accuracy and integrity as we do in our print edition. Soon, we'll be bringing you slideshows, podcasts, and video clips of our news coverage. We have our main Web site and blogs from our reporting staff. And, we want to hear from you...got a story tip? E-mail or post in our online forums. We're also interested in video clips and photos of news incidents. If a local issue affects you, don't hesitate to contact one of our staff. We are here to serve Elk Grove online and with that old-fashioned newspaper in your hand.
Thanks for reading!
Jeff Forward
Editor

Jamie Update

Jamie Gonzales has updated her blog - egcitizencancer.blogspot.com - with a new post. We'll keep readers updated on Jamie's condition in our print edition as well as online.

Jeff Forward
Editor

Misc....happenings

The Elk Grove Citizen has a new face on board - Gamaliel Ortiz, who is our new city goverment, local politics reporter. Gamaliel will be covering all aspects of the Elk Grove City Council, the upcoming city election and anything pertaining to local politics.
Gamaliel is a graduate of CSU-Sacramento and worked at the State Hornet for several years. He has started a new politics blog, which is linked at left, called City Beat.
We at the Citizen are trying to reach out to a wider, more diverse audience via the Internet. We not only have our main Web site, www.egcitizen.com but we also feature this blog, Gamaliel's City Beat Blog, and former reporter Jamie's cancer blog. There are also links to former reporter's blogs by Blake Ellington and our 2007 Summer Intern, Sarah Kyo. We hope you enjoy these additions to our print edition and main Web site coverage of local news.

Jeff Forward
Editor