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  • March 9, 2021 | In light of recent deaths, Sacramento City Hall faces reckoning on warming centers
  • June 20, 2025 | Sacramento organizations in limbo as federal actions threaten AmeriCorps-funded programs 
  • June 19, 2025 | Sacramento groups address loneliness, create community for older AAPI adults 
  • June 18, 2025 | Sacramento’s Celebration Arts’ ‘Before it Hits Home’ explores family’s reaction to prodigal son’s AIDS diagnosis
  • June 17, 2025 | Small businesses in Sacramento navigate changes in response to California energy policies
  • June 17, 2025 | ‘The Grown-Ups’ is a fitting amalgam of hope and looming chaos for Sacramento theater-goers

News June 20, 2025

Sacramento organizations in limbo as federal actions threaten AmeriCorps-funded programs 

By Krista Minard  On a Sunday evening in late April, several local nonprofit groups that rely on AmeriCorps grants received official word: The Trump administration’s…

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News, Solving Sacramento June 19, 2025

Sacramento groups address loneliness, create community for older AAPI adults 

By Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria  Every week, 67-year-old Connie Bateman gets ready for a weekly outing with a volunteer from ACC Senior Services, a nonprofit that…


Arts+Culture, Rebooting the Arts, Solving Sacramento June 18, 2025

Sacramento’s Celebration Arts’ ‘Before it Hits Home’ explores family’s reaction to prodigal son’s AIDS diagnosis

By Odin Rasco The beauty of jazz is the genre’s unique interplay of technical skill and emotional resonance. Both elements are important to the experience;…


News June 17, 2025

Small businesses in Sacramento navigate changes in response to California energy policies

By Janelle Germain With the effects of human-made climate change already in rapid effect — like rising temperatures and sea levels, extreme weather events, and…


Arts+Culture, Stage June 17, 2025

‘The Grown-Ups’ is a fitting amalgam of hope and looming chaos for Sacramento theater-goers

By Dave Kempa A summer camp tucked away in the forest. With the campers in bed, counselors huddle around the campfire, cracking open some beers,…


Channa Pitt and Tami Wilson

June 3, 2025

Building Literacy

Sponsored by: Sacramento County Office of Education

Sacramento County READS promotes teaching literacy through foundational, time-tested practices by Jill Spear As an educator and a parent, Channa Pitt knows firsthand about the…


News June 16, 2025

Will Sacramento’s budget shortfall turn off the lights of community health care centers?

‘Patients will suffer. Patients will die.’ Why California’s rural hospitals are flatlining. By Mark Kreidler, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning…


News June 13, 2025

Jakara Movement’s Mandeep Singh on building community power for Punjabi Sikhs in Sacramento

By Srishti Prabha California’s 2020 census identifies Punjabi as the 10th largest linguistic group in California, and the third most spoken language in Sutter County,…


News, Solving Sacramento June 11, 2025

How uncertainty around tariffs is affecting housing affordability in the Capital Region

By Ken Magri There is already a crisis of available and affordable housing in America. But now, political uncertainty and economic volatility could make home…


Arts+Culture, Music June 11, 2025

Gallery: Cage the Elephant wraps up the final day of BottleRock 2025

Words and photographs by Sugarwolf The final day of BottleRock featured unforgettable performances from headliners Cage The Elephant, and Noah Kahan. Classic rock legend Robby…


Becky Sullivan and David W. Gordon in dress clothes standing beside each other

June 3, 2025

Taking the Initiative

Sponsored by: Sacramento County Office of Education

Sacramento County Office of Education aims to improve literacy rates among area students by Jacob Peterson With more than 55 percent of its students falling…


News June 11, 2025

Stockton-based conservation group calls for audit of billions in public spending by DWR

By Dan Bacher At a time when Governor Newsom’s May revision budget proposal would slash overtime pay for caregivers, consumer access to care and nursing home…


Arts+Culture, Rebooting the Arts, Solving Sacramento June 10, 2025

Latino theater continues its five-decade rise in the Sacramento region  

By Marcus Crowder In early April, Manuel Pickett gave a guest lecture in the Playwrights’ Theatre on the campus of Sacramento State about his involvement…


Arts+Culture, Music June 10, 2025

Gallery: Boone takes to the air and Timberlake headlines second day of BottleRock

Words and photographs by Sugarwolf BottleRock’s second day drew a massive crowd as Justin Timberlake and Ice Cube gave headlining performances. The William Sonoma culinary…


News June 9, 2025

Budget cuts threaten in-home assistance workers and Medi-Cal recipients

Will California gut a medical aid program created in an age of compassionate care? By Mark Kreidler, Capital & Main This story is produced by…


Woman sitting at desk smiling.

March 19, 2025

Keeping Kin Together

Sponsored by: Sacramento County Department of Child Family and Adult Services

How Sacramento County is transforming child welfare practices and becoming a model for agencies nationwide By Elizabeth Ann Morabito Can you imagine a young loved…


Arts+Culture, Music June 9, 2025

Gallery: Green Day shows fans time of their life on Day 1 of BottleRock

Words and photographs by Sugarwolf Napa Valley hosted the 12th annual BottleRock Festival over Memorial Day weekend bringing fine wines, gourmet faire, celebrity chefs, and…


Arts+Culture, Solving Sacramento, Stage June 6, 2025

June theater roundup: Summer is in full swing with these wonderful shows in Sacramento

By Dave Kempa Ready for those long, hot summer solstice Sacramento evenings? Or would you like to enjoy this month’s spectacular live local theater in …


Voices June 6, 2025

A newspaper nullifies itself, or ‘The Great A.I. face-plant’

Published as an SN&R editorial Well, well, well, well … The Chicago Sun-Times, a newspaper that was founded in 1948, just quietly attempted to use…


Arts+Culture, Food, Music, Rebooting the Arts, Solving Sacramento June 5, 2025

Sacramento’s AAPI Night Market brings culture and community to the Capitol

By Chris Woodard Every May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is celebrated. And for four years now, Sacramento has celebrated with a culture-rich…


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