Little light at the end of the tunnel
Editor’s note: New Sacramento supervisors’ chairperson wants to reopen businesses, but COVID-19 numbers say ‘no’ Sue Frost made her top priority crystal clear as she…
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The roundup: Gun violence, vanity superspreaders and uncaring CARES Act contractor make for rough start to 2021
New year, same social diseases If self-destructive behavior wasn’t contagious before, it sure felt like it during the first, way-too-tragically-eventful week of 2021. A violent…
Reducing the pain on garbage rates
Editor’s note: Sacramento County supervisors give families a break during the pandemic Last month, Sacramento County supervisors put off voting on a garbage rate increase,…
Never forget the #SeditiousGOP caucus
Editor’s note: Republican leaders call for unity and healing after the insurrection they helped encourage There’s lots of talk and commentary about what should happen…
Heart to Art with Joha Harrison
Joha Harrison has spent the past decade photographing the street, but it all started with some giant grapes “There was a store where I grew…
Letters: Trump, Capitol insurrection
Trump is responsible Re: “Donald J. Trump, tinhorn dictator” by Foon Rhee (Editor’s note, Jan. 4): Damn right. Trump is directly responsible for what’s happening…
American idiots staged an insurrection. The reviews were terrible.
Jan. 6, 2021—yet another day of the the Trump presidency that will live in infamy A belligerent Trump mob invaded the U.S. Capitol Wednesday to…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Jan. 7, 2021 ARIES (March 21-April 19): The pandemic has made it challenging to nurture our communities. In order to make…
Happy Nude Year!
Dear Readers, Happy Nude Year! 2020 stripped us of our comfort zones and carried us naked into what really matters. As the calendar turns, let’s…
As Amazon nets pandemic windfall, Sac’s indie bookstores get a new weapon to compete
Bookshop.org is helping locally owned bookstores from Davis to Auburn disrupt the great disruptor By Scott Thomas Anderson In recent years, a deluge of journalism…
Donald J. Trump, tinhorn dictator
Editor’s note: Cowardly Republicans kowtow to an attempted coup I had no illusions that Donald Trump—a wannabe dictator—would do everything possible to stay in power,…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Dec. 31, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) carried on a long love affair…
A nurse shot her boyfriend nine times. Was it self defense or another domestic homicide?
Domestic violence and murder-suicides killed nine people in Sacramento County in 2020 The fact that Shauna Lynlee Giffin shot and killed her son’s father inside…
Letters: Biden, Republicans, law enforcement, etc.
No time for compromise Re: “How to make progress in the next four years” by Jeff vonKaenel (Greenlight, Dec. 15): Jeff vonKaenel is calling for…
A long, dark winter of COVID-19
Editor’s note: Sacramento region stays in lockdown as county officials plan how to slow the spread The Sacramento region’s ICU situation isn’t as dire as…
Planet V: 2020 comfort food and hope for 2021
Vegan food can be delicious, and frequent exposure to compassionately-produced meals is likely the best conversion technique available.
Sacramento Artist Corps puts artists to work to serve their community
Marie Acosta drew inspiration from the Works Progress Administration to help artists during the pandemic In response to mass unemployment caused by the Great Depression,…