LowBrau settles labor suit amid pandemic lockdown for restaurants
The Midtown beer hall and East Sacramento’s Mimosa House were each sued last year Two Sacramento restaurants are fending off separate labor lawsuits as California’s…
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Free Will Astrology
For the week of Dec. 17, 2020 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Temporary gods are deities who come alive and become available for particular functions, and…
Will proposed hospital really generate $4 billion for Elk Grove?
Questions raised about financial forecast for suburban hospital project By Scott Thomas Anderson As Elk Grove leaders prepare to vote on a controversial hospital in…
Heart to Art with Janine Mapurunga
A Sacramento photographer’s lifelong project documents her grandmother’s house in Brazil The Warehouse Artist Lofts in Sacramento were still under construction when developer Ali Youssefi…
Heroin sales in Sacramento fueled the Aryan Brotherhood’s deadly conspiracy at Folsom State Prison
Conviction in RICO case involves five killings, three attempted assassinations By Scott Thomas Anderson If federal prosecutors have their way, Samuel Keeton will be the…
CARES Act funding, the sequel
Editor’s note: Sacramento County officials say it’s only bookkeeping, but advocates oppose any federal COVID-19 relief money going to the sheriff or probation After the…
Letters: Delta tunnel, Sacramento Zoo, Biden, coronavirus, homeless
Unheard voices Re: “State’s largest water district ignores tribes, conservationists, ratepayers on Delta tunnel” by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, Dec. 9): Shame on MWD and…
How to make progress in the next four years
To move the country forward, we’ll need to find common ground The election is over. The results are in. And the outcome is painfully clear….
We met the enemy—and it isn’t 2020
While it’s true our 2020 losses have been brutal, the “worst year ever” label is drama and distraction Kick split-thinking to the curb: 2020 isn’t…
The police eyes in the skies
Police face few limits on operating unmanned aircraft For two years of his life, Sacramento County public defender Joseph Cress had the unenviable task of…
Fifteen Minutes: Tenzin Yunuen, @ShopBIPOCSac
Tenzin Yunuen created the rapidly-growing Instagram account @ShopBIPOCSac just in time for the holidays.
Dr. Kasirye is the leader we need
Essay: Sacramento County should promote its public health officer to get through COVID-19 pandemic By Phillip Summers Sacramento County is experiencing multiple severe crises. First…
Making police reform work in Sacramento
Editor’s note: Citizens commission recommends millions more for community groups to respond to mentally ill After all the debate and protests for police reform this…
Making music in Trump era
“I have to acknowledge that Trump won,” Charles Albright says. “He didn’t just do a mildly successful local band based on the fakeness of celebrity. He rules the world with the fakeness of celebrity.”
The spirit of art lives on at Project 25
Project 25 is Sacramento’s newest gallery and it’s got a mission: Cultivate community, not competition Eight years after the Solomon Dubnick Gallery closed its Midtown…
Cannabis connoisseurs
California to recognize marijuana growing locations, just like for fine wines If you’ve ever argued that specific locations provide unique characteristics for growing cannabis, so…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Dec. 10, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to Taoist scholar Chad Hansen, “Western philosophers have endlessly analyzed…