Protecting the mail and the election
Essay: During a pandemic and presidential campaign is no time to be messing with the Postal Service By Doris Matsui On Tuesday, I was at…
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Homeless in a heat wave
Essay: Sacramento’s unhoused are in even more danger from triple-digit temperatures By Faye Lessler and Crystal Sanchez The current heat wave is a reminder that…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Aug. 20, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We never know what is enough until we know what’s more…
Fire from the sky: Early morning evacuation follows lightning-driven inferno in Nevada County
By Scott Thomas Anderson It started with a sound like the sky splitting open. Around 2 a.m. Monday, a crashing clasp of thunder rattled the…
Fifteen Minutes: Musician Danny Schneider
Joshua’s House Hospice, a nonprofit offering hospice care to terminally ill unhoused Sacramentans, will soon receive the proceeds of a unique fundraiser by Sacramento musician Danny Schneider.
COVID and crime
Editor’s note: Violence is up during the pandemic and police reform protests America’s cities have been hammered by twin crises—first the COVID-19 pandemic and then…
Planet V: Microwave tamales miss the mark
Alpha Foods attempts to bridge the gap between comfort food and portability with its line of microwaveable frozen tamales.
The people’s budget
Editor’s note: Sacramento activists aren’t waiting for a city charter change to have more say on how tax dollars are spent It’s one of the…
Political battles converge in Sacramento as eviction avalanche looms
While city voters will get to vote on rent control, deferred rent and mortgages in the hands of the state lawmakers By Scott Thomas Anderson…
County ramps up funding to fight COVID-19
Editor’s note: After controversy and confusion, Sacramento County supervisors add $45 million for public health Sacramento County supervisors—with the county under withering criticism for spending…
Wanted: Vote centers
Editor’s note: Sacramento elections officials need more safe polling places for November—and poll workers, too There’s a lot of coverage and consternation—rightly so—about President Trump’s…
Music review: Free Advice, Cindy
This record is—in the best way—not for dancing; it’s for swaying. Or, to make my recommendation hyper-specific to Sacramento, it’s a record to be absorbed while laying on your floor under your wall-unit AC on 100-degree-plus days.
California’s most aggressive debt collector sued thousands of customers. Now it says it’s stopping.
The most litigious debt collector in Sacramento County—and possibly California—is retreating from courthouses following an investigation by The Guardian into the company’s aggressive business practices…
Letters: Homelessness, presidential race, COVID spending
The real problem Re: “A matter of life and death” by Bob Erlenbusch (Essay, Aug. 12): Your efforts don’t treat the underlying problem. Homeless don’t…
Heart to Art with Mark Thomas Dillon
Skateboarding and photography took over Mark Thomas Dillon’s life from an early age and neither are leaving any time soon. “I never shoot with the…
Creating an alternative to 911
A new Sacramento office is supposed to handle emergency calls instead of police. Bridgette Dean’s job is to make sure it works. Daniel Hahn spoke…
Rent control resurrected
Editor’s note: An initiative to cap rent hikes in Sacramento will be on the November ballot after all. And that could be bad news for…