I have had this column nearly 10 years, and haven't been able to find a better source of news about people with disabilities than Inclusion Daily Express, which has been run since 1999 by 51-year-old Dave Reynolds of Spokane, Washington

Some snowfall earlier in the week and a sun-drenched weather forecast makes skiing or snowboarding look appealing this weekend in the Lake Tahoe region.

Sacramento real estate developer Sotiris K. Kolokotronis filed for personal bankruptcy Friday, listing debts of more than $130 million and assets of $3.2 million. Concurrent with the filing, his bankruptcy attorney Walter Dahl issued a news release that said Kolokotronis’ continuing dispute with an investment firm triggered the filing. That firm, an entity of Ayres Advisors of San Diego, has been pursuing a $16.5 million judgment against Kolokotronis for several years. The Chapter 7 liquidation case could resolve that judgment and protect some of Kolokotronis’ personal assets...

Feats of Clay will not make it to its 25th year. Feats of Clay XXV had been scheduled this year for April 28 through May 27. But it appears the show will not go on. The national ceramic arts and sculpture competition was a regional draw, as the art was displayed inside the massive honeycomb kilns at the Gladding McBean terra-cotta factory in Lincoln. Lincoln Arts, the nonprofit that puts on the competition, said the event has been retired.

Despite being one of the Silicon Valley tech chief executive officers getting $1 a year in salary, Meg Whitman got stock options when she took over at Hewlett-Packard Co. last year that brought her total compensation to an estimated $16.5 million. The Palo Alto computer and services giant (NYSE: HPQ) reported the pay package in a proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. Whitman's option awards are valued at $16.1 million and she was also given $372,598 in other compensation...

Steve Appleton, the chairman and chief executive of Micron Technology Inc., died in a small plane accident in Boise, Idaho, Friday morning. He was 51. Micron (NASDAQ: MU) is based in Boise. It is a worldwide provider of advanced semiconductors for many industries. Micron makes DRAM, NAND and NOR flash memory chips that power everything from wireless electronics, automotive computers, radio frequency chips and communications and storage technology. Appleton was an avid pilot. He was the lone person in the experimental fixed-wing plane when it crashed at the Boise airport, according to a release from the company...

The city of Sacramento released a list of the 13 teams that responded to its request for potential bidders on its parking operation. On Thursday, the city said it had garnered interest from 13 parking operators, but the city said it wanted to have initial conversations with respondents before releasing the names of the operators. A city proposal calls for leasing out the city’s parking garages, and possibly on-street parking, to a private operator for up to 50 years as a way of funding a downtown sports arena that would house the Sacramento Kings...

California’s huge public pension fund wants to put pressure on Apple Inc. change the way it elects candidates to its board of directors. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System is trying to drum up shareholder support for its proposal to have unopposed board candidates elected by majority vote. As of Dec. 27, CalPERS owned 2.8 million shares of Apple (NASDAQ: APPL) stock, which at $459 a share is worth $1.29 billion. That means Apple shares account for more than 0.55 percent of CalPERS total current value...

Each week, we show you the top five companies from our Lists printed in our Friday paper. This week, we feature private employers and publicly held companies. Private employers (ranked by employees) Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento, 10,000 (estimate) Sutter Health, Sacramento, 9,112 Mercy, Rancho Cordova, 7,054 Intel Corp., Folsom, 6,500 Hewlett-Packard Co., Roseville, 3,200 (estimate) Subscribers can see the full list in our print edition every Friday. Pick up a copy to see private employers and publicly held companies in Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer and Yolo counties...

Each week, we show you the top five companies from our Lists printed in our Friday paper. This week, we feature publicly held companies and private employers. Publicly held companies (ranked by revenue) The McClatchy Co., Sacramento, $1.38 billion GenCorp Inc., Rancho Cordova, $857.9 million Pacific Ethanol Inc., Sacramento, $328.33 million SureWest Communications, Roseville, $243.5 million Premier Power Renewable Energy Inc., El Dorado Hills, $86.79 million Subscribers can see the full list in our print edition every Friday...

Amber Raves, Part One — “Creative people sometimes have a hard time realizing they have to become CEOs of themselves,” Amber Collins says after shimmying and gliding into a chair. This former model, who heads up the fashion division of Cast Images, a talent booking agency in midtown Sacramento, moves with the grace and confidence that launched her own 20-year modeling career when she was just 16. Collins scouts, coaches and books mainly local talent for regional, national and global fashion shoots...

A new national analysis of salaries finds that power distributors and dispatchers in Sacramento earn the biggest paychecks among so-called production workers in California. Using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the list -- compiled by the Business Journal's G. Scott Thomas -- also finds that air-traffic controllers in San Francisco earn the most of workers statewide in a related group of occupations: transportation and logistics ...

West-Sacramento based Raley's supermarket chain has dropped out of joint negotiations with other grocers and will bargain independently with a union in hopes of ending a drawn-out contract dispute, the Sacramento Bee reports this morning. In a memo, CEO Michael Teel says the standoff with the United Food and Commercial Workers already has contributed to closure of two stores.

As Facebook prepares for its much-anticipated IPO, a new study finds that its users aren't getting tired of the social-networking site, reports the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal this morning. The study found that the longer that people have used Facebook, the more frequently they use it and the more friends they have on the site the more involved they get with it.

A nationally recognized urban planner will lead the first two of a series of workshops on the future of the Broadway corridor scheduled for later this month, reports Michael Shaw of the Sacramento Business Journal. Dan Burden, who was named by Time Magazine as "one of the six most important civic innovators in the world," will lead the workshops ...

CORCORAN-- Officials at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran (CSATF/SP) are investigating an inmate death as a homicide.

SACRAMENTO - Sally Phonthachack wants to some day run her own nonprofit organization and be a mentor to young people.

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) - Experts from UC Davis Health System will share the latest research about regenerative medicine, with a focus on chronic pain and the promise of stem cell therapies,

The Sacramento Police Department is seeking the community's help identifying a burglary suspect.

SACRAMENTO, CA. - The Powerhouse Science Center in Sacramento today announced that Keller Group Office Environments has joined the campaign to build the premier science learning center serving Northern California