The Wake-Up Call: Industrial Zones, Wal-Mart Suit

Yes, Elk Grove is mostly made up of housing developments, shopping malls and fields, but it has industrial areas, too. The future of those areas is the subject of a city-sponsored workshop tonight. Should the city change the rules in industrial zones so that offices and restaurants can be built there, as other cities have done? That's one of the questions up for discussion.

In the Patch:

Industrial lands workshop. Visit www.egplanning.org for more information on this meeting, open to the public, or simply show up at 6:00 p.m. at the .

. The board is set to approve the district's budget for next year tonight, along with discussing changes in policies for English language learners.

Outside the Patch:

Supreme Court sides with Wal-Mart in sex discrimination case. The court struck down a class action suit on behalf of 1.5 million women, The New York Times reports today, saying there was no evidence that the corporation had nationwide policies or practices that were discriminatory. Legal experts said the ruling could make it harder for workers to file such suits in the future.