Yolanda Griffith is named "Best Monarch" in the Sacramento News & Review "Best of Sacramento," and it earns her a poem in her honor.

In other Sacramento news, the hullabaloo over a new stadium is reaching bad soap opera status. There's a new plan on the table that officials hope the Maloofs will approve. Suggestions of a "Plan B" are being floated, but are "strongly denied" by City Councilman Steve Cohn.

The pro-arena "Yes on the Q&R" campaign got a $2 million dollar donation and a Sacbee editorial underscores the confusion the bickering between the negotiating parties has created amongst voters, even as people dream of new light-rail stops taking them out to what "might be."

Meanwhile, Bee columnist Marcos Breton is just fed up with the whole mess.