The book has received positive reviews from a variety of publications such as The Sacramento Bee and EconTalk.
Noting the wide appeal of Backatown, Carla Meyer of The Sacramento Bee wrote that it "provides comfort for fans of jazz, rock, pop, funk and however you want to classify James Bond theme music".
During his final year in Oakland in 1986, Kingman sent a live rat in a pink box to Sue Fornoff, a sportswriter for The Sacramento Bee.
The Sacramento Bee said the music was "peppy and cheerful, if unmemorable" but that the sound effects were "largely recycled from the developer's previous games, all the way back to 1999's "Star Ocean: The Second Story.
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The Sacramento Bee for its campaign against political machine influence in the appointment of two Federal judges in Nevada.
Today, the organization's stories regularly appear in news outlets around the country and in California including NPR News, PBS Frontline, PBS NEWSHOUR, The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera English and American Public Media's Marketplace.
Baltake's film reviewing career started at Gannett's suburban newspaper group, where his critiques appeared in several New Jersey-based newspapers, and continued at Knight-Ridder's The Philadelphia Daily News and McClatchy's The Sacramento Bee.
Former Editor of The Sacramento Bee, now The McClatchy Company, Valentine S. McClatchy was also the co-owner of the company with his brother Charles K. McClatchy.