For the City of Sacramento, the top priority is customer service, which city executives define as connecting citizens to the department that can satisfy their needs - as quickly as possible. To improve citizen service, Sacramento city officials wanted to make it easier for citizens and businesses to reach the...

Amazon released CloudFront, their Content Delivery Network, earlier this week. It’s being touted by many as a game changer for content delivery services.

SynapSense Corp., a Folsom company that has developed wireless-sensor network technology, has been honored by the U.S. Department of Energy for its innovative approach to saving energy in data centers.
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David Maxwell-Jolly will become Department of Health Care Services director on Jan 1, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Friday.
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Howard Posner has been elected as president of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District board.
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Shares of Pacific Ethanol Inc. inched up 3 cents, despite a research firm downgrading the ethanol producer and marketer.
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A subsidiary of a French energy company has closed the financing for an expansion of its wind power project in Solano County.
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State Treasurer Bill Lockyer and officials from 19 major California bond issuers are pushing the Federal Reserve and federal officials for action to fix short-term municipal bond finance markets.
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Four out of five college students and young graduates are looking for a job to make extra money during the holidays, but many of them don’t think they’ll land one in a rough-and-tumble economy.
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California and the Sacramento region’s jobless rates both increased a half-percentage point, reaching the highest levels since 1994, the latest evidence of a hard-hit economy that continues to slump, according to a report released Friday.
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