College rejection season
College rejections are a life lesson.
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Succulents grow on you
More gardeners, young and old, are getting into fleshy water-wise plants known as succulents. They’re drawn by succulents’ sculptural good looks and ability to survive…
Climate change consensus
Even with the suffocating smoke from last season’s deadly wildfires fresh in everyone’s minds, perhaps it’s still surprising just how strongly residents of the Sacramento…
Editor’s note: Calling all writers
SN&R is having a fiction and poetry contest, and the winners will be published on July 18. See the rules for entries below. Lots of…
A real-life rom-com
Some long-distance romances should stay that way.
A fabulous stroll
A parade of moms, often with their children tagging along, will make its way through Sacramento’s Fabulous Forties neighborhood this coming weekend. It’s their treat….
Students insist: Not Goodenough
Elk Grove drama teacher resigns the same week SN&R reports student claims of repeated mistreatment An Elk Grove teacher accused of tormenting her drama students…
Editor’s note: Pension politics
This month comes a yearly ritual: the Sacramento City Council holds budget hearings and a parade of interest groups seek more money—the arts, fire, parks,…
White supremacists are trying to recruit college kids, but it’s not the guy you think
A drone pilot with a confused message masks Sacramento State’s real white supremacy threat A man who admitted drone-dropping propaganda over Sacramento last week told…
Wedding and work drama
Controlling moms and manipulative coworkers.
America’s biggest companies don’t pay their fair share for our infrastructure
Sacramentans head to Washington to lobby for money; costs should be shared by all.
Rolling job killer
Sacramento boosts automated cars, but what happens to professional drivers? By Scott Thomas Anderson Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg leaned out from the window of a…
They say their teacher abused them. They say their school let it happen.
After backstage drama, Elk Grove teens force a reckoning with the theater teacher they say mistreated them and the school that didn’t stop her Elijah…
Plant adaptations
A half century after hanging ferns and grape ivy seemed to decorate every California kitchen, houseplants are enjoying another moment in the sun. “There’s more…
Life isn’t fair
Fairness, resentment, self-awareness and character.
May Day 2019
Only political action will change the rules of the game.
Brewing change
Despite persistent stereotypes, women are crafting their course in the local beer scene Dressed in maroon overalls and work boots, the head brewer of Crooked Lane…