This company does horrible business and has horrible customer service. I was told i can cancel at…read moreanytime no fees no problem. Well after a few months with 0 business i paid bill on full and the publisher said no problem. Then i received collection notice i contacted Carmichael times where they were 0 help and told me to contact collection agency. It was a joke. In the end i received no business from them and was a loss over $600

Ever since it got bought out, it's gone downhill...BIG TIME! Bill Hicks is gone...big loss!!!! He…read moreWAS the paper. I could really care less about what's happening in SoCal (eg: recent article about Coronado, CA) or anywhere else outside of the Rancho Cordova area. There is very little local about it now. I might just as well read the Sac Bee as it has more stuff relevant to the Rancho area than the Grapevine plus I can get all the other junk the Grapevine now has in it. Really too bad. I enjoyed reading the local stories about local people and places and especially the local sports. Good bye Grapevine...it was great while it lasted. I will miss you.

I love this small independent paper. With so few sources of independent news from a source that is…read moreso American, it is really a paper to cherish.

First review, don't mind if I do!…read more The process of changing your name is easy enough to do on your own, but I'll admit, it's not a fun experience. I'm so grateful that Lynne and Grapevine Independent helped in publishing my Order to Show Cause. No hassle, whatsoever. This is how legal advertising should be!

I'm disturbed that this publication comes unsolicited to my driveway weekly. I understand that this…read moreis primarily a means for local businesses to advertise and I don't really mind the local human interest stories about local events and people. What disturbs me is the clear and deliberate right wing bias that is interspersed between these other articles. Examples of this are "The Tale of Two Rallies" and "Highway Patrolmen Endorse Sheriff Scott Jones For Congress" from Grapevine Independent, July 1, 2016. The first article presents itself as being a fair comparison of recent Trump and Clinton rallies in Sacramento. It is clearly biased toward Trump. Interestingly, the article focuses on the atmosphere of the rallies and not on the content of the candidate's message (or lack of message). Perhaps more disturbing is the Jones endorsement piece. Look to the bottom of this "article" and you find that the source is the Scott Jones campaign itself. Why is this article not labelled as a political advertisement? Did the Jones campaign pay for this space? Is the Ami Bera campaign going to be offered equal space? I think not. Misrepresenting political propaganda/advertisement as "news" by not clearly indicating this to the reader is a breach of ethics. If the paper offered a forum or editorial page and printed readers responses to their pieces it would at least be a step toward clarifying to the readers what is opinion and what is not. I get the distinct impression that the aim of this publication is to blur those lines and let journalistic ethics be damned!

I took my time to go over to newspaper to run my business card in their paper, and they said it…read morewould be out next Friday, which now is last Friday, but I looked in the paper and there's no ad, so I called the lady there about it and she was very rude about why they didn't put the ad in the paper ,basically what she was saying they forgot! So I said that's not very professional and she said well we're not gonna run your ad now! How unprofessional is that business? and I will not run my ad with those folks because I'm sure we probably have billing issues too!

From the owner: We publish a local community weekly newspaper and are qualified to publish legal notices at the…read morelowest possible prices. The same applies to our advertising printing prices

Forgettable little freebie rag I picked up at Albertson's on Sunrise Boulevard. I didn't even know…read morethat Gold River was a separate township from Sacramento until I submitted a review of Price-Less Drug Store on North Sunrise and its street address placed it in Gold River, CA. The issue I looked at had some "local boy makes good" stories on a 4-H event and an entrepeneurial Eagle Scout. The rest of the newspaper is ads and random sections: What's Cook'n with MOM, Kat Makes Cleaning Easy, Events by Tia. Do these columnists really have a following? It is an easy read at only 12 pages.

I think GRCN is far better than RC online. Their reports are way through and RC only puts out…read morecouple news stories per week and their mostly about crime stats in scare tactic manner whereas GRCN reports lot of local news relevant to the community. They come out less frequently but has storied worth reading.

I mailed them my application and checks, but received no response for about a week. After I…read morecontacted them by email, they processed my application to publish the notice. Almost immediately afterward, I began receiving unsolicited calls from various people offering services for my business-from printing business cards to providing office security-as well as other spam calls.

I spoke to David the editor regarding cancelling an ad, for whatever reason, I chose not to cancel…read moreit that day. he told me to call back before noon the next day in order for the ad to be cancelled and to not pay extra. The next day I call, David isn't available and I'm directed to leave a voicemail. My question is even if I Leave a voicemail, and David doesn't call me back before noon, would I be charged extra? the representative said i would have to ask David. At this point I ask the representative for his name as reference, he refused to give me his full name. Stated that he wasn't "comfortable" giving it out. I would imagine a newspaper company to be professional and to help consumers as much as possible Update- David was able to return my call.

This is a freebie color 'zine distributed at all sorts of places in the Midtown/Downtown area. I…read morefirst spotted a stack sitting outside of a place in Old Sacramento and was amazed at how much cool local stuff they had in it. They cover the live music scene, art culture and events, and other random goings-on within Sac. There's also at least one featured review of a local dining establishment and a decent dining directory (although small). This is a must for any gridster. And it's free. Coolishness.

In any undertaking, there are two things that need to be considered: the goodness of the plan and…read morethe facility of the execution. This is a 5 star idea and a 3 star execution. I love the idea of knowing what is going on inside the grid. People consistently complain that there is "nothing to do" in Sacramento--indeed, a recent discussion thread bears witness to this complaint in the most immediate way. So, let's give credit where credit is due. MM does a rather good job disseminating this information. It has its collective ear to the ground and, unlike SNR or other local periodicals, does considerably more than repeat what you've already heard elsewhere. I inevitably learn something--and something interesting--about Sac every time I read MM, and you can't say that about very many freebies. On to the facility of the execution... MM is in its infancy, so some bumps in the road are expected. The initial issues were loaded with copy editing snafus, and one found grammatical errors of all stripes (misplaced apostrophes, misused pronouns, misspelled words). Recent issues are, however, much improved in this regard. I still find that the writing still lacks the verve and edginess that the substance of the magazine begs for, but the gap here is closing, too. Form has not quite caught up with content, at least not yet, but every issue is better than the last. I'm very pleased to see all these improvements--careless writing is evidence of careless thinking, and MM has done a nice job tightening up both. I continue to be mildly disappointed with the reviews and editorial content, but find these recently improved as well. MM does a very good job telling us going on, but could, I think, do a better job telling us why we should care. There seems to be an unwillingness to take the sledgehammer to anyone, and there are places that richly deserve a harsh treatment. The reviews are overwhelmingly positive, but it is hard to know exactly why that is. Is it because the reviewers only review good things, because they are afraid to criticize neighboring businesses, or because they are unable to distinguish good from bad? In short, I don't know. I hope, however, that MM joins to its decidedly self-congratulatory air the discernment and critical sniffishness that would justify it. I am a long way from thinking that a good critic hates everything, but he has to hate something, and to explain himself in an ingratiating way. All I want to see is more critical animus, expressed a bit more felicitously.

What can I say I like the people here...oh yeah I know the owners...but really they are great…read morepeople. Ted is a friend and an old boss of mine while I was in my crazy younger "Don't give a s&*^ days" I must say that although I am not in the Senior Magazine age group yet, from time to time I do read the magazine. It is filled with good advice, from some great contributing writers. So the magazine is worth reading, even though you aren't a "Golden Girl" or "Boy".